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bad guy appears to be defeated, the moment of his demise draws our focus intensely,&rdquo; said Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, assistant professor at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI), housed at USC Dornsife. &ldquo;We watch him closely to see whether he&rsquo;s really down for the count because it&rsquo;s critical for predicting his potential for retribution in the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Aziz-Zadeh, who has a joint appointment with the USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, collaborated with lead author Glenn Fox, a Ph.D. candidate at the BCI, and Mona Sobhani, formerly a graduate student at USC Dornsife who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Vanderbilt University, on a study that appears this month in <em>Frontiers in Psychology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-left: 100px; padding-bottom: 5px; width: 225px; padding-top: 0px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Lisa-1521.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h5>Lisa Aziz-Zadeh of USC Dornsife&#8217;s Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI), shown here, collaborated on the new study with lead author Glenn Fox, a Ph.D. candidate at the BCI, and Mona Sobhani, formerly a graduate student at USC Dornsife. Photo courtesy of Aziz-Zadeh.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>The study examined activity in the so-called &ldquo;pain matrix&rdquo; of the brain, a network that includes the insula cortex, the anterior cingulate and the somatosensory cortices &mdash; regions known to activate when an individual watches another person suffer.<\/p>\n<p>The pain matrix is thought to be a related to empathy &mdash; allowing us to understand another&rsquo;s pain. However, this study indicates that the pain matrix may be more involved in processing pain in general and not necessarily tied to empathic processing.<\/p>\n<p>Participants &mdash; all of them white, male and Jewish &mdash; first watched videos of hateful, anti-Semitic individuals in pain and then other videos of tolerant, nonhateful individuals in pain. Their brains were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show activity levels in the pain matrix.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the participants&rsquo; pain matrices were more activated by watching the anti-Semites suffer compared to the tolerant individuals.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The results further revealed the brain&rsquo;s flexibility in processing complex social situations,&rdquo; Fox said. &ldquo;The brain uses the complete context of the situation to mount an appropriate response. In this case, the brain&rsquo;s response is likely tied to the relative increase in the need to attend to and understand the pain of the hateful person.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A possible next step for the researchers will be to try to understand how regulating one&rsquo;s emotional reaction to stimuli such as these alters the resulting patterns of brain activity.<\/p>\n<p>The research was funded by the USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new USC Dornsife study shows that pain matrices in people\u2019s brains are more activated while watching people we loathe suffer compared to watching likeable people 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