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Theory and methods in cultural neuroscienceJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology and Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:356-61. 2010..Implications of cultural neuroscience research for addressing current issues in population health disparities are discussed...- Culture-gene coevolution of individualism-collectivism and the serotonin transporter geneJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Proc Biol Sci 277:529-37. 2010.... 
Neural basis of preference for human social hierarchy versus egalitarianismJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1167:174-81. 2009..Implications of these findings for research on the social neuroscience of fairness, justice, and intergroup relations are discussed...- The weirdest brains in the worldJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Behav Brain Sci 33:88-90. 2010.... - Dynamic cultural influences on neural representations of the selfJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 22:1-11. 2010..These findings illustrate the dynamic influence of culture on neural representations underlying the self and, more broadly, suggest a neurobiological basis by which people acculturate to novel environments... - Neural basis of individualistic and collectivistic views of selfJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 30:2813-20. 2009..These results reveal two kinds of neural representations of self (eg, a general self and a contextual self) within MPFC and demonstrate how cultural values of individualism and collectivism shape these neural representations... - Neural representations of social status hierarchy in human inferior parietal cortexJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Neuropsychologia 47:354-63. 2009..These results demonstrate that social status and number comparisons recruit distinct and overlapping neuronal representations within human inferior parietal cortex... - The political gender gap: gender bias in facial inferences that predict voting behaviorJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
PLoS ONE 3:e3666. 2008.... - Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear facesJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:2167-74. 2008..This finding provides novel and surprising evidence of cultural tuning in an automatic neural response... - Neural basis of social status hierarchy across speciesJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology and Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 20:803-9. 2010..Future studies are needed to determine how genetic and environmental factors shape neural systems involved in the production and maintenance of social hierarchy across ontogeny and phylogeny... - Cultural neuroscience: a once and future disciplineJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Prog Brain Res 178:287-304. 2009.... - Differential dorsal and ventral medial prefrontal representations of the implicit self modulated by individualism and collectivism: An fMRI studyTokiko Harada
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Soc Neurosci 5:257-71. 2010..More broadly, these findings suggest that cultural values dynamically shape neural representations during the evaluation, rather than the detection, of self-relevant information... - Cultural influences on neural basis of intergroup empathyBobby K Cheon
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, USA
Neuroimage 57:642-50. 2011.... - Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivationVani A Mathur
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, USA
Neuroimage 51:1468-75. 2010.... - Racial identification modulates default network activity for same and other racesVani A Mathur
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 33:1883-93. 2012..Broadly, our findings suggest that the strength of racial identification is associated with differential recruitment of neural and cognitive processes to understand and respond to other people within and outside of one's racial group... - Blinding trust: the effect of perceived group victimhood on intergroup trustKatie N Rotella
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 39:115-27. 2013..Implications of PGV for intergroup relations are discussed... 
Mental representations of social statusJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cognition 93:B49-57. 2004..Participants were fastest when comparing ranks far in status relative to ranks close in status. These findings reveal that humans have mental representations of social status that share properties with that of number...- Look before you regulate: differential perceptual strategies underlying expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisalGenna M Bebko
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Emotion 11:732-42. 2011.... - Asymmetric cultural effects on perceptual expertise underlie an own-race bias for voicesTyler K Perrachione
Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Cognition 114:42-55. 2010..Person perception thus additionally relies on socioculturally-acquired dynamic information, which may be represented by different mechanisms in different sensory modalities... - The representation of social interaction in episodic memory: a functional MRI studyYoko Mano
Department of Functional Brain Imaging, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Neuroimage 57:1234-42. 2011.... - Genetic determinants of financial risk takingCamelia M Kuhnen
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e4362. 2009..DRD4 7-repeat allele carriers take 25% more risk than individuals without the 7-repeat allele. These findings contribute to the emerging literature on the genetic determinants of economic behavior... - The cultural contagion of conflictMichele Gelfand
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:692-703. 2012..Implications for future neuroscience and computational research needed to understand the emergence of intergroup conflict are discussed... - Dynamic social power modulates neural basis of math calculationTokiko Harada
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA
Front Hum Neurosci 6:350. 2012..Taken together, these results indicate that even temporarily heightening a person's sense of social power can increase their math performance, possibly by reducing cognitive interference during math performance... - Intergroup empathy: how does race affect empathic neural responses?Joan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology and Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Curr Biol 20:R478-80. 2010..How does race affect the human ability to share and respond to the suffering of others? Recent evidence provides novel insight into how and why race alters empathic neural response... - Emotional context at learning systematically biases memory for facial informationDonna J Bridge
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Mem Cognit 38:125-33. 2010.... - Priming race in biracial observers affects visual search for Black and White facesJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 17:387-92. 2006..These findings suggest that top-down factors such as one's racial identity can influence mechanisms underlying the visual search for faces of different races... - Psychological constructionism and cultural neuroscienceLisa A Hechtman
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Behav Brain Sci 35:152-3. 2012..Here, we use examples from cultural neuroscience to argue that psychological constructionism, not locationism, captures the essential role of emotion in the social and cultural brain... - Why Some Faces won't be Remembered: Brain Potentials Illuminate Successful Versus Unsuccessful Encoding for Same-Race and Other-Race FacesHeather D Lucas
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA
Front Hum Neurosci 5:20. 2011..These electrophysiological measures thus provide novel evidence that poorer memory for OR faces stems from encoding that is inadequate because it fails to emphasize individuating information... - The seven sins of memory: implications for selfDaniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1001:226-39. 2003..By describing cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging studies that illuminate these memory sins, we consider how they might bear on the relation between memory and self...