Distinct effects of self-construal priming on empathic neural responses in Chinese and Westerners

@article{Jiang2014DistinctEO,
  title={Distinct effects of self-construal priming on empathic neural responses in Chinese and Westerners},
  author={Chao Jiang and Michael E. W. Varnum and Youyang Hou and Shihui Han},
  journal={Social Neuroscience},
  year={2014},
  volume={9},
  pages={130 - 138}
}
The present study investigated whether and how self-construal priming influences empathic neural responses to others’ emotional states. We recorded event-related brain potentials to stimuli depicting the hands of unknown others experiencing painful or non-painful events from Chinese and Western participants after they had been primed in three conditions (independent self-construal priming, interdependent self-construal priming, and a control condition). Stimuli depicting painful events (as… 
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