ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Is Empathy to Physical Pain a Function of Political Ideology?

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Research Proposal

  • Jacob Hane
    San Francisco State University
  • Avi Ben-Zeev
    San Francisco State University

Abstract

Is pain empathy a function of political ideology? We will present Republican and Democrat participants with target faces labeled as Republicans or Democrats and ranging in normed painful facial expressions. We predict a cross-over interaction between participant and target political ideology, showing higher ingroup pain empathy but equal pain perception.