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The interaction between pain and attractiveness perception in others.

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Τίτλος: The interaction between pain and attractiveness perception in others.
Συγγραφείς: Meng, Jing, Li, Xiong, Peng, Weiwei, Li, Zuoshan, Shen, Lin
Πηγή: Scientific Reports; 3/26/2020, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p1-11, 11p
Θεματικοί όροι: Stereotypes, Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology), Frequency response, Pain management, Empathy
Περίληψη: When considering the "beauty-is-good" stereotype, facial attractiveness should facilitate empathy for pain. On the other hand, having in mind the "threat value of pain" hypothesis, pain cues would be more salient, and thus, its processing would not suffer influence by facial attractiveness. The event-related potential (ERP) allows investigating if one of these theories could predict individuals' responses regarding the perception of pain or attractiveness in others' faces. We tracked 35 participants' reactions to pictures depicting more and less attractive faces displayed in a painful and non-painful condition. Each participant completed the following two tasks when presented the images of faces: (1) the Pain Judgment Task, in which participants should rate the pain levels, and (2) the Attractiveness Judgment Task, in which participants should rate the attractiveness. Results showed that participants exhibited differences rating more and less attractive faces in the non-painful pictures, but not in the painful pictures. These results were observed in P3 and LPC amplitudes in the Pain Judgment Task, as well as in N170 and P2 amplitudes in the Attractive Judgment Task. Our results suggested that both explicit and implicit empathic pain processing inhibited the processing of attractiveness perception. These findings supported the "threat value of pain" hypothesis. Besides, in the Attractive Judgment Task, the N170 and P2 amplitudes for more attractive painful pictures were larger than those for more attractive non-painful pictures. In contrast, no significant difference was found between the amplitudes for painful and non-painful, less attractive pictures. Our findings suggest that explicit facial attractiveness processing for more attractive face images potentiates the implicit empathy for pain processing, therefore partly supporting the "beautiful-is-good" stereotype. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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