Racial bias in neural empathic responses to pain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Contreras Huerta, Luis Sebastian ^a,b   Baker, Katharine S ^a,c   Reynolds, Katherine J ^d   Batalha, Luisa ^d   Cunnington, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; CAUCASIAN; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

AFFECT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; EMPATHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893518532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084001     Document Type: Article

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