Real Empathy

21 June 2005


New Scientist report that seeing pain has the same effect on muscles as feeling it.

Volunteers were shown videos of a needle being inserted into someone’s hand or foot while electrodes on their skin measured the activity of muscles in their own hands and feet to see if they behaved in the same way as someone actually feeling pain in those places

So it may really hurt me as much as it does you.

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