NPJ digital medicine
Context-dependent placebo hypoalgesia through observational learning: the role of empathy in immersive and non-immersive environments.
Jewel N White, Lakota Watson, Yang Wang, Giancarlo Colloca, Jonathan Michael Heagerty, Sida Li, Barbara Brawn, Amitabh Varshney, Roni Shafir, Carmen-Édith Belleï-Rodriguez, Luana Colloca
Published: 202610.1038/s41746-026-02373-3
Abstract
Digital environments are increasingly used to study social and pain-related behaviors. Empathy and contextual factors influence observationally induced placebo analgesia. We tested whether state empathy (i.e., immediate affective and cognitive respon…
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