Bounded empathy: Neural responses to outgroup targets' (Mis)fortunes

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3791-3803

  Cikara, Mina ^a   Fiske, Susan T ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MISFORTUNE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; STEREOTYPY;

EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055118426     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00069     Document Type: Article

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