Why watching someone get hurt on screen makes you wince: How the brain triggers echoes of touch sensation

If watching Robert De Niro ordering hammer-based retribution on a cheat’s hand in “Casino” instinctively made you wince, you are not alone. Many people say that seeing bodily injury on film makes them flinch, as if they “feel” it themselves. It…

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