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[摘要]：Perspective-taking and personal distress are argued to play contrasting roles in empathic processing, with perspective-taking promoting empathic concern and personal distress promoting egoistic motivations. Previous research has shown that emotionally negative valence imagery induced alpha and beta power changes relative to neutral imagery and that alpha activity relates inversely to empathy. We therefore investigated the hypothesis that enhanced beta is associated with personal distress and is accompanied by a correlation between alpha and perspective-taking. Participants viewed negative and neutral valence images from the International Affective Picture System and made judgments about their levels of concern for humans in each image. As predicted, greater beta enhancement was associated with higher personal distress, whereas greater alpha-band suppression was associated with lower perspective-taking abilities. We suggest that these data support Batson's Empathy-Altruism hypothesis in which failure to adopt another person's perspective is related to greater personal distress. NeuroReport 22: 744-748 (C) 2011 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. |
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