In the second experiment, they found that participants' sense of agency in the face of pain also affected their empathic response. The study showed that there was an increase in unpleasant feeling for participants knowing that they are responsible for the observed pain and not the researchers. According to the study, this reveals an important and still unexplored aspect of the feeling of agency: its role in social cognition. This present study would examine the effect of feeling of agency on empathy, which should rely on the same mechanism, i.e. sharing