Experiencing Physical Pain Leads to More Sympathetic Moral Judgments

Previous studies have shown that observing another’s pain can evoke other-oriented emotions, which instigate empathic concern for another’s needs. It is not clear whether experiencing first-hand physical pain may also evoke other-oriented emotion and thus influence people’s moral judgment. Based on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiao, Qianguo, Zhu, Yi, Luo, Wen-bo
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4605675/