• DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2418-09.2009
Corpus ID: 1472690

Do You Feel My Pain? Racial Group Membership Modulates Empathic Neural Responses

@article{Xu2009DoYF,
  title={Do You Feel My Pain? Racial Group Membership Modulates Empathic Neural Responses},
  author={X. Xu and Xiangyu Zuo and X. Wang and S. Han},
  journal={The Journal of Neuroscience},
  year={2009},
  volume={29},
  pages={8525 - 8529}
}

• X. Xu, Xiangyu Zuo, +1 author S. Han
• Published 2009
• Psychology, Medicine
• The Journal of Neuroscience

The pain matrix including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) mediates not only first person pain experience but also empathy for others' pain. It remains unknown, however, whether empathic neural responses of the pain matrix are modulated by racial in-group/out-group relationship. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we demonstrate that, whereas painful stimulations applied to racial in-group faces induced increased activations in the ACC and inferior frontal/insula cortex in both… Expand

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