Cultural influences on neural basis of intergroup empathy

被引:122
作者
Cheon, Bobby K. [1 ]
Im, Dong-mi [2 ]
Harada, Tokiko [1 ,3 ]
Kim, Ji-Sook [2 ]
Mathur, Vani A. [1 ]
Scimeca, Jason M. [1 ]
Parrish, Todd B. [3 ]
Park, Hyun Wook [2 ]
Chiao, Joan Y. [1 ]
机构
[1] Northwestern Univ, Dept Psychol, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[2] Korea Adv Inst Sci & Technol, Taejon, South Korea
[3] Northwestern Univ, Dept Radiol, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Culture; Social dominance orientation; Cultural neuroscience; Temporoparietal junction; Intergroup empathy; fMRI; SOCIAL-DOMINANCE ORIENTATION; TEMPORO-PARIETAL JUNCTION; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; BRAIN-REGIONS; MIND; RESPONSES; FMRI; NEUROSCIENCE; VARIABILITY; PERSPECTIVE;
D O I
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.031
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
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. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:642 / 650
页数:9
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