Do We Feel the Same Empathy for Loved and Hated Peers?
Fig 1
Schematic representation of the paradigm: the description of the task for each of the four blocks (Self, Other-Most-Loved-Familiar, Other-Most-Hated-Familiar and Other-Stranger) was presented and a fixation cross was displayed for 500 ms in the instruction part.
An image of a painful or non-painful stimulus was presented until the participant had rated the imagined level of pain from 0 to 9 using a keyboard. After an interstimulus interval of 1000 ms, a new stimulus was displayed on the screen.