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- The study explored how individuals with psychopathic traits process empathy compared to healthy controls when observing pain.
- In the early stages of emotional processing (500-700 ms), both groups reacted similarly to pain judgments, indicating comparable empathic responses.
- However, in later stages (700-1100 ms), controls displayed a stronger response to pain compared to non-pain stimuli, while those with psychopathic traits showed no significant difference, suggesting they struggle with processing and reappraising emotional distress.
Article Abstract
This study examined the empathic processing of individuals with psychopathic traits and healthy controls in response to pain, applying affective perspective-taking (Self vs. Other). Twenty subjects with high psychopathic traits and twenty control subjects performed pain judgment tasks in the study. During the tasks, late positive potentials (LPPs) of the participants were measured to assess emotional processing in reaction to visual stimuli depicting painful or non-painful situations. In early LPP time stage (500-700 ms), the control group and the psychopathic trait group exhibited comparable levels of empathic processing regarding pain. However, in late LPP time window (700-1100 ms), the control group showed a greater LPP amplitude to Pain stimuli than No-pain stimuli, whereas the psychopathic trait group exhibited non-significant amplitude differences between Pain and No-pain stimuli. These findings imply that individuals with high psychopathic traits may swiftly terminate the processing and encounter difficulties in reappraising distress cues, especially in the late stage, providing psychophysiological support for distinctive empathic processing with temporal aspects.
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