Racial bias reduces empathic sensorimotor resonance with other-race pain

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1018-1022

  Avenanti, Alessio ^a,b,c   Sirigu, Angela ^d   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^a,e  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Centro di Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive   (Italy)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPATHY; HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ANCESTRY GROUP; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREJUDICE;

EID: 77955615546     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.071     Document Type: Article

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