Skin conductance response to the pain of others predicts later costly helping

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hein, Grit ^a   Lamm, Claus ^a,b   Brodbeck, Christian ^a   Singer, Tania ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTIVATION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COOPERATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

SUGARCANE RAMU STUNT DISEASE PHYTOPLASMA;

ADULT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961084396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022759     Document Type: Article

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