Effect of Eye Emotional Information on Pain Empathy: An ERP Study

Abstract

Abstract: Pain empathy infers to individual's perception and emotional response to others' pain. The eye region information reflects people's mental state to some certain. The study investigated the influence of calm, sad and fear eyes' emotional information on pain empathy using ERP technique. The results showed that it was a significant difference in P3 component induced by different eye conditions. The amplitude in calm eyes condition was greater than that in sad eyes condition and in fear eyes condition. P3 and LPC had greater amplitude in pain judgement than that in no pain judgement. Different emotional information expressed by eye region affects late processing of pain empathy.

Key words: Emotion, pain empathy, event-related potentials (ERPs)

摘要： 疼痛共情是个体对他人疼痛的认知和情绪反应。眼部信息在一定程度上反映着他人心理状态。利用ERP技术，研究探讨了平静、悲伤、恐惧三种眼部情绪信息背景对疼痛共情的影响。结果发现，在P3成分上，平静情绪引发的波幅大于悲伤、恐惧情绪引发的波幅。在P3、LPC成分上，疼痛场景刺激引发波幅大于非疼痛场景刺激引发的波幅。研究表明，眼部表达的不同情绪信息可影响疼痛共情相关任务中的晚期加工过程。

关键词: 情绪, 疼痛共情, 事件相关电位

CLC Number:

B842

SONG Juan, WEI Yanqiu, DU Meng, XIE Hongyu, LIAN Tao, HU Yaqi, MA Ou. Effect of Eye Emotional Information on Pain Empathy: An ERP Study[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2019, 17(3): 326-332,347.

宋娟, 魏艳秋, 杜梦, 解鸿宇, 连涛, 胡亚奇, 马欧. 眼部情绪信息对疼痛共情影响的ERP研究[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2019, 17(3): 326-332,347.

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