Empathy for pain from adolescence through adulthood: An event-related brain potential study

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Mella, Nathalie ^a   Studer, Joseph ^a,b   Gilet, Anne Laure ^a,c   Labouvie Vief, Gisela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Emotion regulation; Empathy; Pain perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870915328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00501     Document Type: Article

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