Cardiac afferent activity modulates the expression of racial stereotypes

Black individuals are racially stereotyped as threatening but how bodily signals may affect these misperceptions is not known. Here Azevedo and colleagues show that these race-driven responses are affected by the cardiac cycle, being more biased when arterial baroreceptor activation is maximal.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ruben T. Azevedo, Sarah N. Garfinkel, Hugo D. Critchley, Manos Tsakiris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13854