Psychosocial stress differentially affects emotional empathy in women with borderline personality disorder and healthy controls

Deficits in empathy, an important part of social cognition, have been described in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Importantly, psychosocial stress enhances emotional empathy in healthy participants. However, it remains unknown whether stress affects empathy in BPD.

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