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

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 786-797

  Sheng, Feng ^a   Han, Shihui ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Empathy; Event related potential; Intergroup relationships; Racial bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMPATHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACISM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREJUDICE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861337147     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.028     Document Type: Article

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