Challenging emotional prejudice by changing self-concept: priming independent self-construal reduces racial in-group bias in neural responses to other's pain.
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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DOI：
10.1093/scan/nsv005
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发表时间：
2015-09
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Chenbo Wang;Bing Wu;Yi Liu;Xinhuai Wu;Shihui Han
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作者：
Chenbo Wang;Bing Wu;Yi Liu;Xinhuai Wu;Shihui Han
与外群体成员的痛苦相比，人类对内群体成员表现出更强的同理心，并且帮助内群体成员多于外群体成员。此外，共情和狭隘利他主义中的群体内偏见在集体主义文化中比在个人主义文化中更为突出。这项工作测试的假设，修改自我，区分集体主义和个人主义的文化取向，影响内组偏见的同情感知自己的种族与其他种族的痛苦。通过使用功能性磁共振成像扫描成年人，我们发现在参与者被相互依赖的自我刺激后，与外群体成员的疼痛相比，中扣带回，左扣带回和补充运动区（SMA）的神经活动更强。然而，在左侧SMA、中扣带回和小脑皮层中，对他人疼痛反应的种族内偏性被独立的自我刺激者显著降低。我们的研究结果表明，改变一个人的自我意识会导致他/她的种族内群体偏见的神经反应，以他人的痛苦的变化。
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.