Empathy—the ability to share the feelings of others—is fundamental to our emotional and
social lives. Previous human imaging studies focusing on empathy for others' pain have�…

Empathy is the ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion
between oneself and others. Knowing what someone else is feeling plays a fundamental�…

The social neuroscientific investigation of empathy has revealed that the same neural
networks engaged during first-hand experience of affect subserve empathic responses�…

Highlights•Empathy for pain requires simulation via networks involved in experienced
pain.•Distinct networks support empathy for distinct phenomena like pain, pleasure, and�…

Previous research on the neural underpinnings of empathy has been limited to affective
situations experienced in a similar way by an observer and a target individual. In daily life�…

In recent years, abundant evidence from behavioral and cognitive studies and functional-
imaging experiments has indicated that individuals come to understand the emotional and�…

Empathy is the ability to perceive and understand other people's emotions and to react
appropriately. This ability is a necessary prerequisite for successful interpersonal interaction�…

There is strong evidence that empathy has deep evolutionary, biochemical, and
neurological underpinnings. Even the most advanced forms of empathy in humans are built�…

Human empathy relies on the ability to share emotions as well as the ability to understand
the other's thoughts, desires, and feelings. Recent evidence points to 2 separate systems for�…

To what extent do we share feelings with others? Neuroimaging investigations of the neural
mechanisms involved in the perception of pain in others may cast light on one basic�…