Cultural influences on neural basis of intergroup empathy

• Main Authors: 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.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology::Neurobiology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100536; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24119
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...