MRI scans of the brain: stress-induced brain activation during viewing pictures of other people in painful situations. The results show that the neural empathy network in people under stress was more sensitive to the pain of others (Copyright: Claus Lamm (2016) Published by Oxford University Press).
Acute psychosocial stress leads to increased empathy and prosocial behavior. An international team of researchers led by Claus Lamm from the University of Vienna investigated the effects of stress on neural mechanisms and tested the relationship between empathy and prosocial behavior in a new experiment. The study has just been published in the journal "Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience". Stress is an essential psychobiological mechanism without which we could not survive. It mobilizes the organism and enables it to manage threatening situations. It was previously assumed that stress elicited the so called fight or flight response. More recently however, based on the results of behavioral studies, this theory has been repeatedly called into question.
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