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Low Empathy Levels Might Be Related To Stress

January 17, 2015 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

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Low Empathy Levels Might Be Related To StressOur capacity to express empathy becomes active when we are relaxed enough around those that surround us, as indicated by a new research.  As a result, the opposite happens when we are not comfortable with others. Researchers concluded that low empathy levels might be related to stress.Empathy is the capacity to understand and somewhat experience other’s emotions.

It doesn’t take much feel at ease with strangers that we just met. Actually, spending only 15 minutes playing a video game together or taking an anxiety blocking medication could be sufficient to get us comfortable around others, say analysts from McGill University in Canada.

Like different studies focused on empathy, the group relied on physical pain as a tool to request empathy on the premise that everybody can relate to pain and that it’s not difficult to quantify in a research center setting.

In this specific study, which was distributed in the diary Current Biology, undergrad volunteers were asked to immerse their arm in super cold water in the presence of a companion, of stranger and alone.

In one situation, the group researchers gave an anxiety blocking medication to two outsiders before the experiment and in another scenario they asked two outsiders to take 15 minutes and play the feature game “Rock Band” before submerging their arms into cold water.

The participants, who were asked to rate their pain in all situations, reported the highest pain after placing their hands in the icy water while accompanied by a friend.

Senior author Jeffrey Mogil, a psychology professor at McGill noted:

“It would seem like more pain in the presence of a friend would be bad news, but it’s in fact a sign that there is strong empathy between individuals — they are indeed feeling each other’s pain”

But at that point the individuals who were seen as friends incorporated the members who had taken the anxiety blocking medication and the individuals who had played the video game.

Dr. Mogil said that even a shared experience as shallow as playing a feature games can turn people from strangers into friends and create significant levels of compassion.  According to the researcher, this exploration exhibits that fundamental procedures to lessen social anxiety could begin to move us from a compassion shortage to an overflow. As the study showed, gaming Rock Band without anyone else’s input led to no compassion between strangers.

Dr. Mogil has undertaken comparable experiments on mice prompting the same conclusion: They feel no empathy when new to each other, yet cage-mates feel more agony if they go through the experience together than if they were alone.

To observe compassion in the mice, the examination group gave the same anxiety blocking medication as they did to the people, which is called metyrapone and prevents flight reaction.

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