This brain activity correlated with their reported desire for revenge. Thissuggests that, although simulation may tend to operate automatically, it is notprotected from our higher order beliefs. Other research has shown that pain-relatedregions are activated differently when watching someone in pain depending onwhether one takes a self-centered or other-centered perspective and depending onone’s beliefs about whether the pain was necessary (Lamm et al., 2007). Thissuggests a significant amount of flexibility in mirroring that some simple versionsof simulation theory would not predict.