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- Title
Empathy and Reversed Empathy of Stress in Mice.
- Authors
Watanabe, Shigeru
- Abstract
Empathy is an emotional response to display of distress in others and reversed-empathy is an emotional response to nondistressed others in distressed subjects. Stress has memory enhancing effect on aversive experience. Here, I examine empathy and reversed empathy using the memory enhancing effects of stress in mice. Restrain stress enhanced aversive memory of a floor with electric shock, but restrain stress, with cage mates also restrained, reduced the enhancing effect. On the other hand, restrain stress with free-moving cage mates increased the memory enhancing effect, suggesting the stronger stress. This is the reversed-empathy. Level of corticosterone is the highest after the restrain with free-moving mates and lowest after the restrain with restrained mates.
- Subjects
EMPATHY testing; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; LABORATORY mice; EMOTIONAL conditioning; MINERALOCORTICOIDS; ELECTRIC shock; CORTICOSTERONE
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0023357