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Deficits in the individuals’ functioning manifesting as a specific Internet addiction may be revealed during contact with the cue associated with addiction. In this context, frequent Facebook users presented spontaneous hedonic reactions following Facebook stimuli compared to less frequent Facebook users. Additionally, a tool like Facebook, created for social connection, may be reducing connective capacities (“media-empathy paradox”). In our study, we wanted to examine the relation between nonproblematic and problematic Facebook use as well as the influence of a cue associated with Facebook on empathy. We used the most common stimuli that were presented in the empathy paradigm (painful and nonpainful stimuli) with Facebook and neutral context. We found that painful stimuli elicited greater neural responses than nonpainful stimuli at a time point of 220 ms (N2) over frontocentral brain regions. Also, we registered the interaction between context and painful stimulation. The difference in N2 amplitude was shown between painful and nonpainful pictures, but only for the neutral context. There were no differences in the Facebook context. At the later stage of 300–400 ms (P3) over centroparietal regions, painful stimuli elicited significantly greater neural responses than nonpainful stimuli. The present study extends the findings of previous research about specific Internet addiction. |
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