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What role does intersubjectivity play in the facial expression of pain?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

C. Richard Chapman  and
Yoshio Nakamura
C. Richard Chapman
Affiliation:
Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 crc20@utah.eduyn5@utah.edu
Yoshio Nakamura
Affiliation:
Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 crc20@utah.eduyn5@utah.edu
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Abstract

The facial expression of pain is the end product of a complex process that is, in part, emotional. The evolutionary study of facial expression must account for the social nature of human consciousness and should address the questions of why empathy exists, the adaptive importance of empathy, and whether facial expression is a mechanism of empathy and second-person consciousness.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2002 , pp. 455 - 456
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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