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Connected in bad times and in good times: Empathy induces stable social closeness

2023-02-16

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<p>Humans need social closeness to prosper. There is evidence that empathy can induce social closeness. However, it remains unclear how empathy-related social closeness is formed and how stable it is as time passes. We applied an acquisition-extinction paradigm combined with computational modelling and fMRI, to investigate the formation and stability of empathy-related social closeness. Participants observed painf...

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Literature Corpus work: abc91f56-f1e4-53a5-8247-d33a5f80d36c
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/yzf53

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