Mello Manuel, Fusaro Martina, Aglioti Salvatore Maria
Sapienza University of Rome and CLN2S@Sapienza, Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia (IIT), Rome, Italy.
Social Neuroscience Lab, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy.
Syst Rev. 2024 Mar 2;13(1):82. doi: 10.1186/s13643-024-02481-9.
The neuroscience of human empathy for pleasure and positive affect is an emergent, scarcely addressed topic. The main aim of this scoping review is to map the impact of this new research domain on the field of social and affective neuroscience.
Most of the literature on empathy and affect sharing has hitherto focused on negative emotions, with a special focus on pain. However, understanding, sharing, and reacting to others' pleasures is an evolutionarily and socially important function. Our scoping review addresses this gap in the literature and tries to unify the available information under the empathy for pleasure umbrella.
This scoping review is intended to cover studies on empathy for positive emotions, pleasant sensory outcomes, and other rewards in healthy individuals and neurological/neuropsychiatric/neurodevelopmental disorders populations.
We will perform a systematic search in the Medline (PubMed), Scopus, and Web of Science (WoS) databases. Two authors will independently screen all titles, abstracts, and then full-text articles that meet the inclusion criteria. The year range of interest will be 2000-2022, and only journal articles published in English will be assessed. Data will be extracted and presented in tables and/or graphical representations to synthesize and describe the results. The extracted data will be reported in a comprehensive summary.
The final manuscript is intended for submission to an indexed journal in late 2023/beginning 2024.
To our knowledge, the present scoping review will be the first to address the variety and heterogeneity of available evidence on human empathy for pleasure. We ultimately aim at perusing the growing literature on this far-reaching field of study and informing future research.
The neuroscience of human empathy for pleasure: Protocol for a scoping review. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/W7H6J . (December 27, 2022).
人类对愉悦和积极情感的共情神经科学是一个新兴的、鲜有涉及的主题。本范围综述的主要目的是梳理这一新兴研究领域对社会和情感神经科学领域的影响。
迄今为止,大多数关于共情和情感分享的文献都聚焦于负面情绪,尤其关注疼痛。然而,理解、分享并对他人的愉悦做出反应是一项在进化和社会层面都很重要的功能。我们的范围综述弥补了文献中的这一空白,并试图将现有信息统一在愉悦共情的框架下。
本范围综述旨在涵盖关于健康个体以及神经/神经精神/神经发育障碍人群对积极情绪、愉悦感官体验和其他奖励的共情研究。
我们将在Medline(PubMed)、Scopus和科学网(WoS)数据库中进行系统检索。两位作者将独立筛选所有符合纳入标准的标题、摘要,然后是全文文章。感兴趣的年份范围为2000年至2022年,仅评估以英文发表的期刊文章。数据将被提取并以表格和/或图表形式呈现,以综合和描述结果。提取的数据将在全面的总结中报告。
最终稿件计划于2023年末/2024年初提交至索引期刊。
据我们所知,本范围综述将首次探讨人类对愉悦共情的现有证据的多样性和异质性。我们最终旨在研读这一广泛研究领域中不断增加的文献,并为未来研究提供参考。
人类对愉悦共情的神经科学:范围综述方案。https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/W7H6J 。(2022年12月27日)