PSYC12H3 Chapter 7: Lecture 7 Readings
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Empathy constrained: prejudice predicts reduced mental simulation of actions during. Perception-action-coupling activating neural system when you perceive action; important for interpersonal sensitivity, e. g. empathy; shaped by selective attention and motivation. Limited to ig so neural motor networks will only fire when you perceive object-person to belong to ig, not for the og. Mu suppression measure of motor cortex activity; when it"s low, you are not simulating the other person"s actions; highest for self condition, ig, east asians, blacks, south asians. 3 conditions ingroup (white people), outgroup (disliked groups), and self. They watched videos of ig/og reaching for a glass and they had to then do that too; they also filled out a symbolic racism scale. Most mu suppression/motor cortex activity when acting and watching ig act but not og; more prejudiced they were, even less mu suppression, and for disliked groups.
