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Affective reactions to pictures of ingroup and outgroup members

Brown, Lisa M., Bradley, Margaret M., Lang, Peter J.·2006·Biological Psychology
DOI 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.06.003
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A pervasive form of social categorization among humans is between us and them. In this study, we assessed emotional reactions when people viewed pictures depicting members of the same or different ethnic group. African American and European American participants viewed a series of pleasant and unpleasant pictures portraying either ingroup or outgroup members, while physiological, behavioral, and evaluative judgments were measured. Two hypotheses were assessed. The outgroup antipathy hypothesis predicts that people will respond to outgroup pictures with more negative affect than to ingroup pictures. In contrast, the ingroup empathy hypothesis predicts that people will show exaggerated (pleasant and unpleasant) affective responses to pictures of ingroup members, due to group identification or personal relevance. The data provided no support for the antipathy hypothesis, whereas facial EMG, skin conductance, rating, and viewing time data lent support to the ingroup empathy hypothesis, in which greater pleasure and displeasure were apparent when viewing ingroup pictures.

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  • The lack of electrodermal findings may be attributable in part to the sample including a relatively sizeable proportion of African Americans and other individuals with dark skin tones, who often show lower levels of electrodermal activation in laboratory provocations of emotion.

    “our lack of findings may be attributable in part to the fact that our sample included a relatively sizeable proportion of African Americans and other individuals with dark skin tones, who often show lower levels of electrodermal activation in laboratory provocations of emotion (Brown, Bradley, & Lang, 2006).”

    From Cardiovascular costs of emotion suppression cross ethnic lines. (2008) · cites this paper as Brown, Bradley, & Lang, 2006

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Authors
Brown, L. M., Bradley, M. M., & Lang, P. J.
Affiliations
  • Austin College (US)
  • University of Florida (US)
Corresponding author
  • Brown, Lisa M.
  • Bradley, Margaret M.
ORCID
Venue
Biological Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2006-03
Volume
71
Issue
3
Pages
303-311
ISSN
0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.06.003
OpenAlex
W2116996621
Cited by
151
References
4
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FWCI
14.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Biological Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Keywords
in-group favoritism, social categorization, ethnic group identification, facial electromyography, skin conductance, viewing time
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Arousal, Attention, Black or African American, Electromyography, Empathy, Facial Expression, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Prejudice, Social Identification, Reflex, Startle, Stereotyping, Black People, White People

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