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Perspective matters: using past experiences to understand others' insensitivity to physical pain.
Federica Meconi, Marco Canducci, Sebastian Michelmann…·Irene Sperandio
The paper investigates how empathy for physical pain is influenced by autobiographical memory reactivation and perspective taking, finding that AM reactivation supports empathy when direct experience is lacking.
DOI 10.1101/2025.07.17.665290