ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2014
A review of neuroimaging studies of race-related prejudice: does amygdala response reflect threat?
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- Amygdala reactivity in ethnic minorities and its relationship to the social environment: an fMRI study.Psychological medicine · 2018Article
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- External motivation to avoid prejudice alters neural responses to targets varying in race and status.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Article
- Empathy and moral emotions in post-apartheid South Africa: an fMRI investigation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2017Article
- Discrimination and Psychological Distress: Gender Differences among Arab Americans.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2017Article
- Age and executive ability impact the neural correlates of race perception.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Prejudice is an enduring and pervasive aspect of human cognition. An emergent trend in modern psychology has focused on understanding how cognition is linked to neural function, leading researchers to investigate the neural correlates of prejudice. Research in this area using racial group memberships has quickly highlighted the amygdala as a neural structure of importance. In this article, we offer a critical review of social neuroscientific studies of the amygdala in race-related prejudice. Rather than the dominant interpretation that amygdala activity reflects a racial or outgroup bias per se, we argue that the observed pattern of sensitivity in this literature is best considered in terms of potential threat. More specifically, we argue that negative culturally-learned associations between black males and potential threat better explain the observed pattern of amygdala activity. Finally, we consider future directions for the field and offer specific experiments and predictions to directly address unanswered questions.
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