School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2013 Sep;37(8):1530-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.06.002. Epub 2013 Jun 14.
Racism and in-group favoritism is prevalent in our society and has been studied in Social Psychology for a long time. Recently it has become possible to investigate the neural mechanisms that underlie these in-group biases, and hence this review will give an overview of recent developments on the topic. Rather than relying on a single brain region or network, it seems that subtle changes in neural activation across the brain, depending on the modalities involved, underlie how we divide the world into 'us' versus 'them'. These insights have important implications for our understanding of how in-group biases develop and could potentially lead to new insights on how to reduce them.
种族主义和内群体偏好在我们的社会中很普遍，并且长期以来一直是社会心理学的研究课题。最近，人们已经有可能研究这些内群体偏见的神经机制，因此，这篇综述将概述该主题的最新发展。这些偏见的形成似乎并不依赖于单一的脑区或网络，而是取决于所涉及的模态，大脑激活的微妙变化将世界划分为“我们”和“他们”。这些观点对我们理解内群体偏见的发展具有重要意义，并可能为如何减少这些偏见提供新的见解。
