Social cognition in members of conflict groups: Behavioural and neural responses in Arabs, Israelis and South Americans to each other's misfortunes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1589, 2012, Pages 717-730

  Bruneau, Emile G ^a   Dufour, Nicholas ^a   Saxe, Rebecca ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Empathy; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Pain; Social cognition; Suffering

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; CULTURAL CONFLICT; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84856053379     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0293     Document Type: Article

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