Empathy and sympathy play crucial roles in much of human social interaction and are
necessary components for healthy coexistence. Sympathy is thought to be a proxy for motivating …

Whether emotion is a source of moral judgments remains controversial. This study combined
neurophysiological measures, including functional magnetic resonance imaging, eye-…

Because youth with aggressive conduct disorder (CD) often inflict pain on others, it is important
to determine if they exhibit atypical empathic responses to viewing others in pain. In this …

When we attend to other people in pain, the neural circuits underpinning the processing of
first-hand experience of pain are activated in the observer. This basic somatic sensorimotor …

This study aimed to examine changes in depression and anxiety symptoms from before to
during the first 6 months of the COVID‐19 pandemic in a sample of 1,339 adolescents (9–18 …

Behavioral research indicates that human females are more empathic than males, a disparity
that widens from childhood to adulthood. Nevertheless, the extent to which such sex …

As the largest longitudinal study of adolescent brain development and behavior to date, the
Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study® has provided immense …

Background Fear conditioning and extinction have been implicated in the pathogenesis of
anxiety disorders. However, due to ethical and methodological limitations, few studies have …

Background: Well-validated models of maternal behavior in small-brain mammals posit a
central role of oxytocin in parenting, by reducing stress and enhancing the reward value of …

Background Deficient empathic processing is thought to foster conduct disorder ( CD ). It is
important to determine the extent to which neural response associated with perceiving harm …