Empathy hurts: compassion for another increases both sensory and affective components of pain perception.

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Published in Pain on September 05, 2007

Authors

Marco L Loggia1, Jeffrey S Mogil, M Catherine Bushnell

Author Affiliations

1: McGill Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

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