Cultural influences on neural basis of intergroup empathy
Cultures vary in the extent to which people prefer social hierarchical or egalitarian relations between individuals and groups. Here we examined the effect of cultural variation in preference for social hierarchy on the neural basis of intergroup empathy. Using cross-cultural neuroimaging, we measur...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1005362020-03-07T12:10:41Z Cultural influences on neural basis of intergroup empathy Cheon, Bobby Kyungbeom Im, Dong-Mi Harada, Tokiko Kim, Ji-Sook Mathur, Vani A. Scimeca, Jason M. Parrish, Todd B. Park, Hyun Wook Chiao, Joan Y. School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology::Neurobiology Cultures vary in the extent to which people prefer social hierarchical or egalitarian relations between individuals and groups. Here we examined the effect of cultural variation in preference for social hierarchy on the neural basis of intergroup empathy. Using cross-cultural neuroimaging, we measured neural responses while Korean and American participants observed scenes of racial ingroup and outgroup members in emotional pain. Compared to Caucasian-American participants, Korean participants reported experiencing greater empathy and elicited stronger activity in the left temporo-parietal junction (L-TPJ), a region previously associated with mental state inference, for ingroup compared to outgroup members. Furthermore, preferential reactivity within this region to the pain of ingroup relative to outgroup members was associated with greater preference for social hierarchy and ingroup biases in empathy. Together, these results suggest that cultural variation in preference for social hierarchy leads to cultural variation in ingroup-preferences in empathy, due to increased engagement of brain regions associated with representing and inferring the mental states of others. 2014-10-23T09:26:10Z 2019-12-06T20:24:09Z 2014-10-23T09:26:10Z 2019-12-06T20:24:09Z 2011 2011 Journal Article Cheon, B. K., Im, D.-M., Harada, T., Kim, J.-S., Mathur, V. A., Scimeca, J. M., et al. (2011). Cultural influences on neural basis of intergroup empathy. NeuroImage, 57(2), 642-650. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100536 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24119 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.031 182505 en NeuroImage © 2011 Elsevier Inc. 9 p. |
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Cultures vary in the extent to which people prefer social hierarchical or egalitarian relations between individuals and groups. Here we examined the effect of cultural variation in preference for social hierarchy on the neural basis of intergroup empathy. Using cross-cultural neuroimaging, we measured neural responses while Korean and American participants observed scenes of racial ingroup and outgroup members in emotional pain. Compared to Caucasian-American participants, Korean participants reported experiencing greater empathy and elicited stronger activity in the left temporo-parietal junction (L-TPJ), a region previously associated with mental state inference, for ingroup compared to outgroup members. Furthermore, preferential reactivity within this region to the pain of ingroup relative to outgroup members was associated with greater preference for social hierarchy and ingroup biases in empathy. Together, these results suggest that cultural variation in preference for social hierarchy leads to cultural variation in ingroup-preferences in empathy, due to increased engagement of brain regions associated with representing and inferring the mental states of others. |
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