Author: Han, Shihui
Description: Racial discrimination in social behavior, although disapproved of by many contemporary cultures, has been widely reported. Because empathy plays a key functional role in social behavior, brain imaging researchers have extensively investigated the neurocognitive underpinnings of racial ingroup bias in empathy. This research has revealed consistent evidence for increased neural responses to the perceived pain of same-race compared with other-race individuals in multiple brain regions and across multiple time-windows. Researchers have also examined neurocognitive, sociocultural, and environmental influences on racial ingroup bias in empathic neural responses, as well as explored possible interventions to reduce racial ingroup bias in empathic brain activity. These findings have important implications for understanding racial ingroup favoritism in social behavior and for improving interracial communication.
Subject headings: Brain; Cognition; Empathy; Group Processes; Humans; Pain Perception; Racism; Social Perception; Event-related potential; Functional MRI; Ingroup bias; Race
Publication year: 2018
Journal or book title: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume: 22
Issue: 5
Pages: 400-421
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