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Peering into the root of prejudice

Nature Reviews Neuroscience volume 7, pages 508–509 (2006)Cite this article

The human brain has the unique ability to represent the mental states of the self and others, and to make inferences about the relationship between them. Writing in Neuron, Jason Mitchell and colleagues report that different regions of the brain are active when we are thinking about people either politically alike or different from us.

different regions of the brain are active when we are thinking about people either politically alike or different from us.

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ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER

  1. Mitchell, J. P. et al. Dissociable medial prefrontal contributions to judgments of similar and dissimilar others. Neuron 50, 655–663 (2006)

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Qiu, J. Peering into the root of prejudice. Nat Rev Neurosci 7, 508–509 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn1959

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