During social interactions, people tend to automatically align with, or mimic their interactor's
facial expressions, vocalizations, postures and other bodily states. Automatic mimicry might …

Empathy is a phenomenon often considered dependent on higher-order emotional control
and an ability to relate to the emotional state of others. It is, by many, attributed only to …

How do the emotions of others affect us? The human anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)
responds while experiencing pain in the self and witnessing pain in others, but the …

The empathic ability to vicariously experience the other's fearful situation, a process called
observational fear (OF), is critical to survive in nature and function in society. OF can be …

Empathy for another's physical pain has been demonstrated in humans [1] and mice [2]; in
both species, empathy is stronger between familiars. Stress levels in stranger dyads are …

Empathy is fundamental to human relations, but its neural substrates remain largely
unknown. Here we characterize the involvement of oxytocin in the capacity of mice to display …

Emotion recognition represents the ability to encode an ensemble of sensory stimuli
providing information about the emotional state of another individual. This ability is not …

Different rat and mouse models are used in studies of social interactions. Simple behavioral
measures, which are commonly used in the laboratory, allow to perform relatively short …

Despite decades of research with humans, the biological mechanisms that motivate an
individual to help others remain poorly understood. In order to investigate the roots of pro …

The aim of this review is to discuss recent arguments and findings in the comparative study
of empathy. Based on a multidisciplinary approach including psychology and ethology, we …