Enhanced emotional empathy after psychosocial stress in young healthy men

被引：61

作者：

Wolf, Oliver T. ^{[1
]}

Schulte, Judith M. ^{[1
]}

Drimalla, Hanna ^{[2
]}

Hamacher-Dang, Tanja C. ^{[2
]}

Knoch, Daria ^{[3
]}

Dziobek, Isabel ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Dept Cognit Psychol, Inst Cognit Neurosci, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

[2] Humboldt Univ, Dept Social Cognit, Berlin Sch Mind & Brain, D-10099 Berlin, Germany

[3] Univ Bern, Social Psychol & Social Neurosci, Inst Psychol, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

来源：

STRESS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS | 2015年 / 18卷 / 06期

关键词：

Affect; cognitive empathy; cortisol; emotional empathy; stress; SOCIAL COGNITION; RESPONSES; CORTISOL; MEMORY; PAIN; NEUROSCIENCE; DIMENSION; OXYTOCIN; GENDER; IMPACT;

D O I：

10.3109/10253890.2015.1078787

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Empathy is a core prerequisite for human social behavior. Relatively, little is known about how empathy is influenced by social stress and its associated neuroendocrine alterations. The current study was designed to test the impact of acute stress on emotional and cognitive empathy. Healthy male participants were exposed to a psychosocial laboratory stressor (trier social stress test, (TSST)) or a well-matched control condition (Placebo-TSST). Afterwards they participated in an empathy test measuring emotional and cognitive empathy (multifaceted empathy test, (MET)). Stress exposure caused an increase in negative affect, a rise in salivary alpha amylase and a rise in cortisol. Participants exposed to stress reported more emotional empathy in response to pictures displaying both positive and negative emotional social scenes. Cognitive empathy (emotion recognition) in contrast did not differ between the stress and the control group. The current findings provide initial evidence for enhanced emotional empathy after acute psychosocial stress.

引用

页码：631 / 637

页数：7

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