Markus Rütgen

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• A pill as a quick solution: association between painkiller intake, empathy, and prosocial behavior
• Placebo analgesia reduces costly prosocial helping to lower another’s pain
• Placebo analgesia does not reduce empathy for naturalistic depictions of others’ pain in a somatosensory specific way
• Another's pain in my brain - No evidence that placebo analgesia affects the sensory-discriminative component in empathy for pain
• Another’s Pain in my Brain: Clarifying the Specificity of the Effects of Placebo Analgesia on First-Hand and Empathy for Pain (OSF preregistration)