Prejudice

Motivation modulates brain networks in response to faces varying in race and status: A multivariate approach

Previous behavioral and neuroimaging work indicates that individuals who are externally motivated to respond without racial prejudice tend not to spontaneously regulate their prejudice and prefer to focus on nonracial attributes when evaluating …

The social neuroscience of race-based and status-based prejudice

The largely independent neuroscience literatures on race and status show increasingly that both constructs shape how we evaluate others. Following an overview and comparison of both literatures, we suggest that apparent differences in the brain …

External motivation to avoid prejudice alters neural responses to targets varying in race and status

Those who are high in external motivation to respond without prejudice tend to focus on non-racial attributes when describing others ([Norton, Sommers, Apfelbaum, Pura, & Ariely, …