ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2015
Challenging emotional prejudice by changing self-concept: priming independent self-construal reduces racial in-group bias in neural responses to other's pain.
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- A Meta-Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies on In-Group and Out-Group Categorization.Brain and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on pain empathy: investigating the role of visual information and observers' perspective.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Pooled it
- Disrupted self-referential processing and empathy-based interventions in mental disorders: neural mechanisms, cognitive biases, and therapeutic integration.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Brain-Inspired Multisensory Learning: A Systematic Review of Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Outcomes in Adult Multicultural and Second Language Acquisition.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The role of self-representation in emotional contagion.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neural representation of perceived race mediates the opposite relationship between subcomponents of self-construals and racial outgroup punishment.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- A Pilot Study of Perspective Taking and Emotional Contagion in Mental Health Professionals: Glass Brain View of Empathy.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2022Article
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- Dispositional Self-Construal Modulates the Empathy for Others' Pain: An ERP Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Dispositional Self-Construal Modulates Neural Representation of Self: An ERP Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Funny or Angry? Neural Correlates of Individual Differences in Aggressive Humor Processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Neural Mechanisms With Respect to Different Paradigms and Relevant Regulatory Factors in Empathy for Pain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Review
- Putting race in context: social class modulates processing of race in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and amygdala.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2017Article
- Adolescents growing up amidst intractable conflict attenuate brain response to pain of outgroup.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Interaction between oxytocin receptor polymorphism and interdependent culture values on human empathy.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2015Article
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Abstract
Humans show stronger empathy for in-group compared with out-group members' suffering and help in-group members more than out-group members. Moreover, the in-group bias in empathy and parochial altruism tend to be more salient in collectivistic than individualistic cultures. This work tested the hypothesis that modifying self-construals, which differentiate between collectivistic and individualistic cultural orientations, affects in-group bias in empathy for perceived own-race vs other-race pain. By scanning adults using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we found stronger neural activities in the mid-cingulate, left insula and supplementary motor area (SMA) in response to racial in-group compared with out-group members' pain after participants had been primed with interdependent self-construals. However, the racial in-group bias in neural responses to others' pain in the left SMA, mid-cingulate cortex and insula was significantly reduced by priming independent self-construals. Our findings suggest that shifting an individual's self-construal leads to changes of his/her racial in-group bias in neural responses to others' suffering.
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