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SUBMITTER: Ioannou S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5055358 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ioannou Stephanos S Morris Paul P Terry Samantha S Baker Marc M Gallese Vittorio V Reddy Vasudevi V
PloS one 20161007 10
Sympathy crying is an odd and complex mixture of physiological and emotional phenomena. Standard psychophysiological theories of emotion cannot attribute crying to a single subdivision of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and disagreement exists regarding the emotional origin of sympathy crying. The current experiment examines sympathy crying using functional thermal infrared imaging (FTII), a novel contactless measure of ANS activity. To induce crying female participants were given the choice ...[more]