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On the interaction of social affect and cognition: empathy, compassion and theory of mind
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Empathy, compassion and Theory of Mind (ToM) are central topics in social psychology and neuroscience. While empathy enables the sharing of others’ emotions and may result in empathic distress, a maladaptive form of empathic resonance, or compassion, a feeling of warmth and concern for others, ToM provides cognitive understanding of someone else's thoughts or intentions. These socio-affective and socio-cognitive routes to understanding others are subserved by separable, independent brain networks. Nonetheless they are jointly required in many complex social situations. A process that is critical for both, empathy and ToM, is self-other distinction, which is implemented in different temporoparietal brain regions. Thus, adaptive social behavior is a result of dynamic interplay of socio-affective and socio-cognitive processes.
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This narrative review argues that empathy, compassion, and Theory of Mind (ToM) are separable socio-affective and socio-cognitive functions supported by distinct brain networks, yet they interact dynamically in complex social situations. Self-other distinction, implemented in temporoparietal regions, is proposed as a process critical to both empathy and ToM.
Key findings
- Empathy (sharing others' feelings) and ToM (inferring others' mental states) are separable on conceptual, behavioral, and neural levels: "strong empathizers are not necessarily proficient mentalizers," and each domain can be selectively impaired — ToM in autism, empathy propensity in psychopathy/chronic aggression.
- Empathy for pain recruits shared activations in anterior insula (AI) and anterior middle cingulate cortex (aMCC); compassion instead engages reward/affiliation networks (ventral striatum, nucleus accumbens, VTA, mOFC, sgACC); ToM engages ventral TPJ, STS, temporal poles, MPFC, and precuneus/PCC.
- The networks interact: when confronted with others' distress, AI activity inhibits TPJ activity, and this reduction in TPJ activity is related to impaired ToM performance.
- Self-other distinction relies on distinct temporoparietal regions — right TPJ for overcoming cognitive egocentricity and right supramarginal gyrus (rSMG) for emotional egocentricity; TMS disruption of rSMG increases emotional egocentricity.
- Empathic distress is described as a maladaptive outcome of empathy, whereas compassion acts as an emotion-regulation strategy that buffers negative affect by up-regulating positive affect via reward- and affiliation-related circuitry.
Methods
- Design: narrative review of social psychology and neuroscience literature on empathy, compassion, and ToM, with no new empirical data reported.
- The review describes the EmpaToM task (Kanske et al.), a 2 (emotionality of video) × 2 (ToM requirements) design in which each actor presented emotional negative/neutral videos and videos with ToM or factual-reasoning demands, followed by valence, compassion, and confidence ratings.
- Cited supporting evidence includes a structural covariance analysis in 270 healthy adults and a charitable donation task linking AI activity to empathy-based giving and TPJ activity to perspective-taking-based giving.
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- The paper states no limitations; its only declaration is "Conflict: Nothing declared."
- Evident from the text: as a narrative review it reports no systematic search strategy or formal quality appraisal, and the empirical claims (e.g., AI–TPJ inhibition, rSMG causality) are drawn from cited primary studies rather than re-analyzed here.
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“When activated together in complex social situations, the two networks may also directly influence each other.”
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“Meta-analyses have later identified these regions as a core network that is activated whenever we witness the suffering of others [8,9].”
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“Indeed, when confronted with others' distress, the AI, which is activated for negative affect sharing, inhibits activity in TPJ, an important hub of the mentalizing network [27 ].”
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“A process that is critical for both, empathy and ToM, is self-other distinction, which is implemented in different temporoparietal brain regions.”
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“The distinction of self and other constitutes an important element of both empathy and ToM, as it enables the differentiation between one's own emotional or mental states and the states shared with others.”
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“Common activations were observed in the typical empathy related core network.”
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“Furthermore, this network is modulated by individual differences in experienced negative affect and empathy [6,10].”
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“Congruently with these activations in reward-associated and affiliation-associated networks, compassion generates positive affect towards others' suffering.”
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“An indirect source of evidence for such co-activation is a meta-analysis on different empathy for pain paradigms, which suggests that the core region of the ToM network is coactivated in empathy paradigms when additional inferring from a cue is required to understand the other's state.[8].”
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“In contrast to compassion, empathic distress, which is an alternative outcome of empathy, may be detrimental to the experiencer as well as to the suffering other [15,18].”
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“The two networks associated with empathy and ToM are also jointly activated for complex evaluations of someone else's feelings such as empathic accuracy, the ability to infer what someone else is feeling [38].”
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“Nonetheless they are jointly required in many complex social situations.”
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“Despite the separability of socio-affective and socio-cognitive functions, these social capacities are jointly activated and interact in complex social situations.”
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“The EmpaToM clearly activates separable brain networks that can be replicated in resting state functional connectivity [25 ] and on a brain structural level [26 ].”
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“Emotional egocentricity occurs when one's own emotional state influences the judgment of someone else's affective state [41].”
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“In autism, ToM is deficient [28][29][30][31], while no empathy deficits are observed when controlling for alexithymia [32][33][34][35].”
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“These socio-affective and sociocognitive routes to understanding others are subserved by separable, independent brain networks.”
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“Sharing affective states with another person (empathy), feeling concern for another (compassion) and reasoning about another person's mental state (ToM) are separable on a conceptual, behavioral and neural level; strong empathizers are not necessarily proficient mentalizers and each domain may be selectively impaired in psychopathologies such as autism or psychopathy.”
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“The adaptive value of this inhibitory mechanism in salient, emotional situations may be to prepare for immediate action in the external world [39].”
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“In psychopathy or chronic aggression, in contrast, ToM is intact, but the propensity to empathize with others is reduced [36,37].”
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“As the cue-based paradigms require additional inference of the other's affective state from an abstract cue, the ToM related network is co-active [8].”
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“Cognitive egocentricity occurs when the own knowledge about a situation influences the reasoning about what someone else thinks about the situation [42], but can also affect simple decisions about the visual perspective of another [44].”
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“Crucially, individual differences in empathy and ToM are unrelated on a behavioral and neural level, that is, strong empathizers are not necessarily proficient mentalizers [27 ].”
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“Furthermore, an original adaptive empathic response to the suffering of others can lead to a maladaptive response, that is, empathic distress which can be reversed by learning how to turn empathy into compassion.”
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“The direct comparison of compassion to the most widely investigated emotion regulation strategy -reappraisal showed that in well-trained long-term meditators, cognitive reappraisal was most efficient in reducing negative affect, but compassion induction worked through up-regulation of positive affect and associated networks in the brain [14 ].”
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“Remarkably, empathy and ToM measurements from an independent task, were also related to these functions' role in donation decisions, suggesting that stable individual propensities are involved in prosocial behavior.”
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“While empathy may be related to prosociality, a particular outcome of empathy -empathic distress -describes the intense sharing of other's emotions and may be detrimental, because it can result in own suffering as well as in asocial or even antisocial effects, such as aggressive verbal behavior [18].”
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“Specifically, AI activity predicted generous donations when participants reported empathic feelings for the charity's goal before, while TPJ activity predicted donations, when participants took the perspective of the organization's cause [48 ].”
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“The critical property of compassion may be that it counteracts negative emotion elicited by experiencing others' suffering through positive emotion generation, thereby acting as an emotion regulation strategy [14 ,15,53].”
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“Thus, temporoparietal regions seem to play a crucial role in overcoming egocentricity, possibly contributing to self-other distinction.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Preckel, K., Kanske, P., & Singer, T.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Preckel, Katrin
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-02
- Volume
- 19
- Pages
- 1-6
- ISSN
- 2352-1546 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2740027066
- Semantic Scholar
- 79c151866cf07f384ba5d29d8665adff0c22052b
- Cited by
- 348
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 37 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 52 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 17
- FWCI
- 3.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Keywords
- empathy, compassion, theory of mind, social affect, socio-cognitive processes, self-other distinction, temporoparietal cortex, empathic distress, empathic resonance, social cognition, social behavior
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