Study design
Pain
The whole study consisted of two parts: a self-report measure and fMRI examination (described in the sections below). During the fMRI part, we used an experimental manipulation in the form of internet-like comments (hate speech or neutral), followed by the Narrative-based Pain Empathy Task (described in the sections below). To maintain the impact of the comments during the cognitive task, we used short, consecutive manipulations followed by the task runs repeated four times. The study design is presented in Fig. The design of the study.