Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Proceedings of the 9th conference on Theoretical aspects of rationality and knowledge
2005 Special Issue: A systems approach to appraisal mechanisms in emotion
Neural Networks - Special issue: Emotion and brain
2005 Special Issue: A systems approach to appraisal mechanisms in emotion
Neural Networks - Special issue: Emotion and brain
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Cortical Regions for Judgments of Emotions and Personality Traits from Point-light Walkers
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Electrophysiological Correlates of Age and Gender Perception on Human Faces
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Impaired Recognition of Social Emotions following Amygdala Damage
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural Dynamics of Rejection Sensitivity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Looking at human-computer interface design: Effects of ethnicity in computer agents
Interacting with Computers
Implicit Trustworthiness Decisions: Automatic Coding of Face Properties in the Human Amygdala
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Brain imaging and brain privacy: A realistic concern?
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural correlates of stereotype application
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Exploring the neural correlates of social stereotyping
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Implicit social cognition and safety culture
Human Factors in Ergonomics & Manufacturing
Amygdala sensitivity to race is not present in childhood but emerges over adolescence
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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We used fMRI to explore the neural substrates involved in the unconscious evaluation of Black and White social groups. Specifically, we focused on the amygdala, a subcortical structure known to play a role in emotional learning and evaluation. In Experiment 1, White American subjects observed faces of unfamiliar Black and White males. The strength of amygdala activation to Black-versus-White faces was correlated with two indirect (unconscious) measures of race evaluation (Implicit Association Test [IAT] and potentiated startle), but not with the direct (conscious) expression of race attitudes. In Experiment 2, these patterns were not obtained when the stimulus faces belonged to familiar and positively regarded Black and White individuals. Together, these results suggest that amygdala and behavioral responses to Black-versus-White faces in White subjects reflect cultural evaluations of social groups modified by individual experience.