Vicarious facilitation of facial responses to pain: Does the others' expression need to be painful?
Facial responses to pain - along with subjective and autonomic responses - are reduced when observing others' expressions of happiness, demonstrating pain modulation by positive affective social signals, which may also transfer to clinical contexts.
Authors
- Peter J. Göller
- Miriam Kunz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0740-6738)
- Philipp Reicherts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7031-0261)
- Stefan Lautenbacher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2829-347X)
Institutions
- University of Augsburg (DE)
- University of Bamberg (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Pain
- Published
- 2024-08-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.4709
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.72