金钱在人们的日常生活中具有十分重要的作用,已有研究已经证明金钱对人的疼痛、人际交往、自尊等有重要的影响。通过2(启动类型:金钱启动和中性启动)×2(靶刺激类型:疼痛和非疼痛刺激)的被试内设计,利用事件相关电位(ERP)技术深入探讨金钱启动对疼痛共情早期成分N1、P2、N2(情绪共情)和晚期正成分LPC(认知共情)的影响。研究结果显示:金钱启动主要影响了早期的N1,P2,N2成分,而没有影响晚期的LPC成分。这说明金钱启动降低了早期阶段对疼痛刺激的敏感性,影响了自下而上的情绪共情,而没有影响自上而下的认知共情。
According to the pain management function of money,monetary primes reduce both physical pain and social pain by finding participants in the money condition decrease the sensitive to pain compared to participants in the control condition.The insensitive to pain can lower people's empathy to others' pain.Then,we wonder if the money primes can modulate the empathy to others' pain.Based on this hypothesis,we design a 2(prime types:money and neural pictures)×2(stimulus:pain and nonpain pictures)within-subject experiment,aiming to explore the impact of money primes on empathy for pain,and further confirm whether money primes affect both the early emotional sharing and late cognitive evaluation of empathy for pain.Results show that the money prime modulates the N1,P2,N2,which are belong to the early bottom-up stage of processing for others' pain.The LPC is considered to be a marker of top-down attention of the late modulation process,and is not influenced by the prime,which means money primes mainly modulated the bottom-up component rather than the relatively top-down controlled component.