Culture Impacts the Neural Response to Perceiving Outgroups Among Black and White Faces.

ABSTRACT: Outgroup members (e.g., individuals whose racial identity differs from perceivers') are stigmatized in Eastern and Western cultures. However, it remains an open question how specific cultural influences affect stigmatization. In this study, we assessed whether cultural learning (i.e., social information acquired from the people in one's environment) associated with Chinese individuals' relocation to the United States differentiated the response to multiple outgroups. Two types of cultural learning predict diverging responses to outgroups - awareness of stereotypes about different racial outgroups is associated with increased negative affect and cognitive control toward the stereotyped outgroup. Conversely, intergroup contact attenuates those responses, and does so to a greater extent for i

SUBMITTER: Hughes C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504693 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature