TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Towards a Cultural Neuroscience of Empathy and Prosociality
JO  - Emotion review
A1  - Chiao, Joan Y.
SP  - 111
EP  - 112
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
N2  - Recent evidence from the social neuroscience of empathy suggests that there is core neural circuitry underlying empathy in humans, and important roles for top—down and bottom—up processes in the production and regulation of empathic experience. Less well understood is how cultural and genetic forces give rise to empathy and prosocial behavior within and across groups. Here I argue that culture-gene coevolutionary theory may play an important role in understanding how and when empathy is experienced, and that future research in cultural neuroscience is needed to understand how cultural and genetic factors shape empathic neural response.<p /> 
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SN  - 1754-0739
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1754073910384159
ID  - ref1
ER  -