Positive Emotion’s Effect from Nostalgia on Pain Empathy: An ERP Study

Abstract

Abstract: We used the Event-Related Potentials technology to investigate nostalgia’s effect on empathy for pain and its neural mechanisms by comparing the difference of neural response between participants under nostalgic and neutral emotion conditions. Participants were asked to judge if it was painful or not in the pictures during pain empathy task. We found that under the nostalgic emotion condition, the amplitude of P2, P3 elicited by painful pictures were larger than that under the neutral emotion condition. Painful pictures elicited larger N2, P2, P3 and 400～600 ms positive component than non-painful pictures. The results consistently showed that nostalgia does have an effect on pain empathy, which can facilitate individual’s empathy for pain.

Key words: nostalgia, empathy for pain, ERP

摘要： 采用ERP技术比较积极怀旧情绪诱发组被试和中性情绪组被试在判断疼痛/非疼痛图片刺激时的疼痛共情反应，探讨积极怀旧情绪对个体疼痛共情加工的影响及其电生理学机制。结果发现，在P2成分和晚期的P3成分上，积极怀旧情绪下的疼痛图片比中性情绪下的疼痛图片诱发了更大的波幅。疼痛图片比非疼痛图片诱发更大的P2、N2、P3及400～600 ms正成分的波幅。结果表明积极怀旧情绪的诱发促进个体对疼痛刺激的加工和共情。

关键词: 怀旧, 疼痛共情, 事件相关电位

CLC Number:

B842

SONG Juan, DU Meng, LIAN Tao, ZHANG Qian. Positive Emotion’s Effect from Nostalgia on Pain Empathy: An ERP Study[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2020, 18(4): 466-473.

宋娟, 杜梦, 连涛, 张倩. 积极怀旧情绪对疼痛共情影响的ERP研究[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2020, 18(4): 466-473.

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