Empathy articles within Nature

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• Article | 07 February 2024

  A distinct cortical code for socially learned threat

  Studies in mice show that observational fear learning is encoded by neurons in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in a manner that is distinct from the encoding of fear learned by direct experience.

  • Shana E. Silverstein
  • , Ruairi O’Sullivan
  •  & Andrew Holmes

• Article | 24 January 2024

  Cortical regulation of helping behaviour towards others in pain

  A study describes the role of the anterior cingulate cortex in coding and regulating helping behaviour exhibited by mice towards others experiencing pain.

  • Mingmin Zhang
  • , Ye Emily Wu
  •  & Weizhe Hong

• Column | 05 October 2011

  The human touch

  A little empathy goes a long way in the competitive confines of a laboratory, argues Lydia Soraya Murray.

  • Lydia Soraya Murray

• Books & Arts | 27 April 2011

  Psychology: The empathy gap

  Malfunctioning brain networks only partly explain why some people act cruelly, finds Stephanie Preston

  • Stephanie Preston