Neural representation of perceived race mediates the opposite relationship between subcomponents of self-construals and racial outgroup punishment.

ABSTRACT: Outgroup aggression characterizes intergroup conflicts in human societies. Previous research on relationships between cultural traits and outgroup aggression behavior showed inconsistent results, leaving open questions regarding whether cultural traits predict individual differences in outgroup aggression and related neural underpinnings. We conducted 2 studies to address this issue by collecting self-construal scores, EEG signals in response to Asian and White faces with painful or neutral expressions, and decisions to apply electric shocks to other-race individuals in a context of interracial conflict. We found that interdependent self-construals were well explained by 2 subcomponents, including esteem for group (EG) and relational interdependence (RI), which are related to focus on grou

SUBMITTER: Zhou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10786092 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature