The neural underpinnings of intergroup social cognition: an fMRI meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Roughly 20 years of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have investigated the neural correlates underlying engagement in social cognition (e.g. empathy and emotion perception) about targets spanning various social categories (e.g. race and gender). Yet, findings from individual studies remain mixed. In the present quantitative functional neuroimaging meta-analysis, we summarized across 50 fMRI studies of social cognition to identify consistent differences in neural activation as a function of whether the target of social cognition was an in-group or out-group member. We investigated if such differences varied according to a specific social category (i.e. race) and specific social cognitive processes (i.e. empathy and emotion perception). We found that social cognition abou

SUBMITTER: Merritt CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8421705 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature