Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Race and empathy

In a rare neuroscience look at racial minorities, a study shows that African-Americans showed greater empathy for African-Americans facing adversity than Caucasians demonstrated for Caucasian-Americans in pain. The more African-Americans identified as African-American the more likely they were to show greater empathic preference for African-Americans, the study showed. Does this mean that African-Americans are more racist?

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