Acute psychosocial stress and emotion regulation skills modulate empathic reactions to pain in others

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Buruck, Gabriele ^a   Wendsche, Johannes ^a   Melzer, Marlen ^a   Strobel, Alexander ^a   Dörfel, Denise ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Acute psychosocial stress; Emotion regulation skills; Empathy for pain; Tolerance; TSST

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904500437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00517     Document Type: Article

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