An empathic person who watches a cared partner being shocked in an experiment:
A)draws on memories from the hippocampus to deal with the strain.
B)draws on the amygdala to understand the other.
C)actually feels his partner's pain, even though just watching.
D)has some parallel pain centers activated in his or her brain.

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An empathic person may have some parallel pain centers activated in their brain when observing a partner in pain, reflecting a neural basis for empathy.

An Empathic Person Who Watches a Cared Partner Being Shocked