Code
3F032110
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Animal experimental and comparative psychology
- Applied psychology
- Biological and physiological psychology
- General psychology
- Human experimental psychology
- Social psychology
- Other psychology and cognitive sciences
Keywords
pain perception
imitation
perception-action link
Project description
The aim of the present project is to investigate whether imitation can modulate empathy for pain, using different research methods such as behavioural self-reports, autonomic measures, and imaging techniques. Furthermore, I want to examine the specific conditions under which this modulation of empathy for pain takes place, investigate the role of congruency, and explore generality of the effects.