Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

Empathy02:34

Empathy

10.3K
Some researchers suggest that altruism operates on empathy. Empathy is the capacity to understand another person’s perspective, to feel what he or she feels. An empathetic person makes an emotional connection with others and feels compelled to help (Batson, 1991). Empathy can be expressed in several ways, including cognitive, affective, and motor. 
10.3K
Factors Affecting Perception01:25

Factors Affecting Perception

3.2K
Perception is influenced by perceptual set, context, motivation, and emotion. Perceptual set, or perceptual expectancy, refers to the tendency to perceive things in a particular way, influenced by previous experiences and expectations. This phenomenon affects the interpretation of stimuli, creating a set of mental tendencies and assumptions that impact sensory perceptions of sound, taste, touch, and sight.
An illustrative example of a perceptual set is the scenario where an airline pilot told...
3.2K
Introducing Social Perception01:29

Introducing Social Perception

653
Perceiving others accurately is fundamental to effective communication and relationship-building. Social perception, a key concept in social psychology, refers to the cognitive processes through which individuals gather and interpret information about others to understand their actions, intentions, and motivations. This process extends beyond spoken words and overt behaviors, incorporating subtle nonverbal cues and contextual factors.Nonverbal Cues and Their SignificanceNonverbal cues play a...
653
Gestalt Principles of Perception01:21

Gestalt Principles of Perception

1.8K
Gestalt principles provide a framework for understanding how humans perceive objects as unified wholes within their context. These principles are essential in explaining the cognitive processes that make sense of complex visual stimuli by organizing them into coherent groups. One fundamental principle is proximity, which posits that objects located close to each other are perceived as a collective group. For instance, when dots are positioned near one another, the visual system interprets them...
1.8K
Facial Feedback Hypothesis01:24

Facial Feedback Hypothesis

906
Charles Darwin proposed that facial expressions are an evolutionary adaptation for communication. He argued that these expressions are not influenced by culture but are universal across species. For example, a snarling expression with exposed teeth signals a threat in many animals, including humans. Darwin also suggested that displaying an emotion can intensify the feeling. Smiling, for example, could enhance one's sense of happiness. This idea laid the foundation for understanding the role...
906
Motivational Bias01:25

Motivational Bias

486
Cognitive bias results from limitations in thinking and information processing, leading to systematic errors in judgment. Conversely, motivational bias stems from personal desires or emotions, causing distortions in perception to align with self-interest. Motivational bias influences how individuals perceive and attribute causes to events, often shaped by personal needs, goals, and self-esteem preservation. This bias can distort judgment, leading to inaccurate assessments of success, failure,...
486

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Representations are constructed: where are the questions about the dynamics of the first interactions and the security of the attachment bond?

The Behavioral and brain sciences·2026
Same author

Stress modulates gastric interoception depending on eating traits and emotion regulation: evidence from the magic table.

Scientific reports·2026
Same author

"StudiCare Mindfulness": effects of an online mindfulness-based intervention on mindfulness, stress, and interoception in university students - a randomized controlled trial.

BMC psychology·2026
Same author

Cardiac interoception in action: Modulation after a stress induction with a speech task.

Biological psychology·2026
Same author

Interoceptive accuracy and cognitive reappraisal modulate affective and physiological reactivity to social stress.

Biological psychology·2026
Same author

Do Individuals With Overweight and Obesity Have Reduced Affective and Cognitive Empathy? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity·2025
Same journal

Post-weaning social isolation increases reward-seeking behavior in mice.

Physiology & behavior·2026
Same journal

DHEA model of PCOS selectively alters reproductive but not metabolic or behavioral phenotypes in female Long-Evans rats.

Physiology & behavior·2026
Same journal

Importance of Apparatus Scaling in Novel Object Recognition for Juvenile and Adult Rats.

Physiology & behavior·2026
Same journal

Chronic activity-based anorexia alters food intake microstructure in a time-dependent manner in female rats.

Physiology & behavior·2026
Same journal

Apelin receptor antagonist (ML221) facilitates memory reconsolidation in novel object recognition task.

Physiology & behavior·2026
Same journal

Are humans adapted to the world they have developed?

Physiology & behavior·2026
See all related articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Apr 19, 2026

Observing the Transformation of Bodily Self-consciousness in the Squeeze-machine Experiment
07:20

Observing the Transformation of Bodily Self-consciousness in the Squeeze-machine Experiment

Published on: March 8, 2019

14.5K

Perceiving one's body shapes empathy.

Delphine Grynberg1, Olga Pollatos2

  • 1Research Institute for Psychological Sciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Physiology & Behavior
|December 16, 2014
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Greater interoceptive sensitivity, the ability to sense internal body signals, enhances both affective and cognitive empathy. This means better body awareness leads to increased compassion and pain estimation for others.

Keywords:
CompassionEmpathyInteroceptionInteroceptive sensitivityPain

More Related Videos

Perceptual and Category Processing of the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis' Dimension of Human Likeness: Some Methodological Issues
07:34

Perceptual and Category Processing of the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis' Dimension of Human Likeness: Some Methodological Issues

Published on: June 3, 2013

18.1K
Creating Virtual-hand and Virtual-face Illusions to Investigate Self-representation
06:53

Creating Virtual-hand and Virtual-face Illusions to Investigate Self-representation

Published on: March 1, 2017

14.0K

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Apr 19, 2026

Observing the Transformation of Bodily Self-consciousness in the Squeeze-machine Experiment
07:20

Observing the Transformation of Bodily Self-consciousness in the Squeeze-machine Experiment

Published on: March 8, 2019

14.5K
Perceptual and Category Processing of the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis' Dimension of Human Likeness: Some Methodological Issues
07:34

Perceptual and Category Processing of the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis' Dimension of Human Likeness: Some Methodological Issues

Published on: June 3, 2013

18.1K
Creating Virtual-hand and Virtual-face Illusions to Investigate Self-representation
06:53

Creating Virtual-hand and Virtual-face Illusions to Investigate Self-representation

Published on: March 1, 2017

14.0K

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Empathy comprises affective and cognitive components with significant individual differences.
  • Interoceptive sensitivity, the awareness of internal bodily signals, influences emotional and cognitive functions.
  • This study explores the link between interoceptive sensitivity and empathy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how interoceptive sensitivity affects affective and cognitive empathy.
  • To determine if heartbeat perception influences empathy responses.

Main Methods:

  • Ninety-three participants completed a heartbeat perception task.
  • Participants reported emotional responses (valence, compassion, arousal, distress) to images.
  • Pain estimation for depicted situations was also recorded.

Main Results:

  • Higher interoceptive sensitivity correlated with increased pain estimation (cognitive empathy).
  • Enhanced interoceptive sensitivity was linked to greater reported compassion and arousal (affective empathy).
  • These effects were observed in response to images of people in pain.

Conclusions:

  • Accurate perception of bodily states is crucial for both affective and cognitive empathy.
  • Interoceptive sensitivity enhances our capacity for compassion and the perceived intensity of others' pain.