About the Authors

Gordon T. Kraft-Todd

gordon.kraft-todd@yale.edu

Affiliations Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Diego A. Reinero

Affiliations Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

John M. Kelley

Affiliations Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea S. Heberlein

Affiliations Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lee Baer

Affiliation Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Helen Riess

Affiliation Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Dr. Riess reported having co-ownership of the company, Empathetics LLC®. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GTKT JMK ASH HR. Data curation: GTKT DAR. Formal analysis: GTKT DAR LB ASH JMK. Funding acquisition: HR. Investigation: GTKT DAR. Methodology: GTKT DAR JMK ASH LB HR. Project administration: GTKT HR. Resources: HR. Software: GTKT DAR. Supervision: JMK ASH LB HR. Validation: GTKT DAR JMK ASH LB HR. Visualization: GTKT DAR. Writing – original draft: GTKT DAR JMK ASH LB HR. Writing – review & editing: GTKT DAR JMK ASH LB HR.