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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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This image shows participants in an experiment (a): while the participants were exposed do either pleasant or unpleasant visual and tactile stimuli (b), they were asked to evaluate the emotions of their partners.

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MPI f. Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences/Silani et al., <i>The Journal of Neuroscience</i> 2013

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