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Jill Piggott
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Brain imaging shows we're more empathetic to others' #pain if we share skin color. Explicit bias is equal in members of majority & minority groups, but implicit bias is higher in members of the majority, an impt finding for policing & medicine. /thread onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
The perception or imagination of someone else's #pain kicks off activity in the parts of our brains that process our own pain, #fMRI imagining reveals. This "embodied empathy" is "tuned by a variety of factors," including individuals' personalities, relationships, & experiences.
"Culturally acquired implicit attitudes & perceived similarity/familiarity" also shape our “emotional responses to others' physical #pain.”

"Considerable evidence" from #brain imaging shows we make evaluations based on "race" w/in "milliseconds even when processed subliminally."
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