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Racial Bias on the Brain


Racism on the Brain - Frontiers for Young Minds

Racism continues to be a significant problem in much of the world. Understanding how racism happens in the brain may help us find ways to ...

Uncovering Implicit Racial Bias in the Brain: The Past, Present ...

In this essay, I dive into what we have learned about implicit racial bias from the brain and the limitations of our current approach.

Understanding racial bias through electroencephalography

Research on racial bias in social and cognitive psychology has focused on automatic cognitive processes such as categorisation or ...

Uncovering Implicit Racial Bias in the Brain: The Past, Present ...

In this essay, I dive into what we have learned about implicit racial bias from the brain and the limitations of our current approach.

Racism and Discrimination Lead to Faster Aging Through Brain ...

In a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, our team showed that the toll of racism on the brain was linked to advanced aging.

Experiencing racism may physically change your brain - NPR

Scientists know that Black people are at a greater risk for health problems like heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease than white ...

Racism takes a toll on the brain, research shows - Washington Post

Chronic and constant racial stress contributes to allostatic load, the cumulative burden on and “wear-and-tear” of the body and overall health.

Racism produces subtle brain changes that lead to increased ...

Our studies show that racial discrimination increases the activity of brain regions, such as the prefrontal cortex, that are involved in regulating emotions.

Confronting racially exclusionary practices in the acquisition and ...

Across the brain sciences, institutions and individuals have begun to actively acknowledge and address the presence of racism, bias, ...

Brain-Body Pathways Linking Racism and Health - PMC

In the present article, we present a model describing the possible neural and inflammatory mechanisms linking racism and health.

Evidence of How the Experience of Racial Discrimination May Alter ...

Results indicated that greater frequency of racial discrimination in one's lifetime was associated with higher levels of resting-state ...

Exposure to racism linked to brain changes that may affect health

A study in Black women has found that exposure to racism is linked with changes in brain white matter, which may affect overall health.

Understanding the Racist Brain | Psychology Today

By analyzing the pathways in the brain that underlie racist thought and behavior, we can better understand how this nasty bias is created, and potentially, how ...

Racism linked to health risks, brain changes in minorities : Short Wave

Scientists know that Black people are at a greater risk for health problems like heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease than white ...

Understanding your racial biases, with John Dovidio, PhD

Racial bias is everywhere but we may not always see it. However, understanding the way people feel about and behave toward those outside their own group can ...

Addressing racial and phenotypic bias in human neuroscience ...

Despite their premise of objectivity, neuroscience tools for physiological data collection, such as electroencephalography and functional ...

A review of neuroimaging studies of race-related prejudice - Frontiers

Phelps et al. (2000, Experiment 1) were the first to examine the link between implicit measures of racial bias and neural activity. During fMRI ...

The Egalitarian Brain - Greater Good Science Center

The new psychology of racism suggests that simply suppressing prejudice—or trying to directly eradicate bias as it's activated in the brain—will ...

The Neural Correlates of Race - PMC - PubMed Central

Moreover, indirectly-assessed race bias responses indicating negativity toward Blacks correlate with enhanced amygdala activity to Black than Caucasian faces [ ...

Neuroscience's long legacy of racism - STAT News

The National Center for Education Statistics found that 6% of full-time faculty were Black. Black people account for 4% of those who receive ...