In healthy adults, oxytocin increased empathy for pain when imagining others compared with imagining oneself, whereas placebo showed no difference between perspectives.
In plain wordsIn healthy adults, oxytocin raised empathy for another person's pain more than for their own, while placebo showed no such difference.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- IncreaseEmpathy for pain, other-perspective vs self-perspective
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Social behavior and cognition · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Source sentences
Under OT treatment, participants expressed more empathy when imagining others than when imagining oneself in pain.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
This was in contrast to the placebo condition where there were no differences between the empathic responses during the self- and the other-perspective.
In this double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject crossover design, empathic responses of healthy participants were compared when imagining oneself (i.e., self-perspective empathy) versus when imagining the other (i.e., other-perspective empathy) in painful and nonpainful situations.