The interaction between pain and attractiveness perception in others
Autor: | Lin Shen, Weiwei Peng, Xiong Li, Jing Meng, Zuoshan Li |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Attractiveness
Value (ethics) Male Electroencephalography - EEG media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:Medicine Empathy Stereotype behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology Pain processing Article Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences Beauty Judgment Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Perception Human behaviour Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences lcsh:Science Evoked Potentials media_common Multidisciplinary 05 social sciences Significant difference lcsh:R Electroencephalography Pain Perception Female lcsh:Q Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Photic Stimulation Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020) Scientific Reports |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
Popis: | 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. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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