Figure 4.

Reactions to stories about emotional suffering. Top panel, participants' ratings of the compassion they felt for the protagonist (target) in the stories, divided across the group membership of the target and of the participant. Bottom panel, average percentage signal change while reading stories about emotional suffering and no-pain (control) stories, 8–20 s post-story onset, in the same participants, extracted from six group functional regions of interest (identified in independent data). DMPFC and VMPFC, dorsal and ventral medial prefrontal cortex; PC, precuneus; L and R TPJ, left and right temporoparietal junction; LAT, left anterior temporal.