Manipulations of cognitive strategies and intergroup relationships   reduce the racial bias in empathic neural responses

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.028

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	Manipulations of cognitive strategies and intergroup relationships reduce the racial bias in empathic neural responses
	Sheng, Feng ; Han, Shihui
刊名	神经影像
	2012
关键词	Empathy Event-related potential Racial bias Intergroup relationships IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST OTHER-RACE FACES INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES FACIAL EXPRESSIONS PAIN BRAIN PERCEPTION PREJUDICE ATTENTION GENDER
DOI	10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.028
英文摘要	Social relationships affect empathy in humans such that empathic neural responses to perceived pain were stronger to racial in-group members than to racial out-group members. Why does the racial bias in empathy (RBE) occur and how can we reduce it? We hypothesized that perceiving an other-race person as a symbol of a racial group, rather than as an individual, decreases references to his/her personal situation and weakens empathy for that person. This hypothesis predicts that individuating other-race persons by increasing attention to each individual's feelings or enclosing other-race individuals within one's own social group can reduce the RBE by increasing empathic neural responses to other-race individuals. In Experiment 1, we recorded event related brain potentials from Chinese adults as they made race judgments on Asian and Caucasian faces with pain or neutral expressions. We identified the RBE by showing that, relative to neutral expressions, pain expressions increased neural responses at 128-188 ms after stimulus onset over the frontal/central brain regions, and this effect was evident for same-race faces but not for other-race faces. Experiments 2 and 3 found that paying attention to observed individual's feelings of pain and including other-race individuals in one's own team for competitions respectively eliminated the RBE by increasing neural responses to pain expressions in other-race faces. Our results indicate that the RBE is not inevitable and that manipulations of both cognitive strategies and intergroup relationships can decrease RBE-related brain activity. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000305920600005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Neurosciences; Neuroimaging; Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging; SCI(E); PubMed; SSCI; 39; ARTICLE; 4; 786-797; 61
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/162797]
专题	心理与认知科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sheng, Feng,Han, Shihui. Manipulations of cognitive strategies and intergroup relationships reduce the racial bias in empathic neural responses[J]. 神经影像,2012.
APA	Sheng, Feng,&Han, Shihui.(2012).Manipulations of cognitive strategies and intergroup relationships reduce the racial bias in empathic neural responses.神经影像.
MLA	Sheng, Feng,et al."Manipulations of cognitive strategies and intergroup relationships reduce the racial bias in empathic neural responses".神经影像 (2012).