Behavioural investigation of the influence of social categorization on empathy for pain: a minimal group paradigm study
Research on empathy for pain has provided evidence of an empathic bias toward racial ingroup members. In this study, we used for the first time the minimal group paradigm in which participants were assigned to artificial groups and required to perform pain judgments of pictures of hands and feet in...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00389/full |