Fusiform Activity Distinguishes Between Subjects With Low and High Xenophobic Attitudes Toward Refugees

This study analyzes how people’s attitudes to the European refugee crisis (ERC) correspond to selected psychological state and trait measures and impact the neural processing of media images of refugees. From a large pool of respondents, who filled in an online xenophobia questionnaire, we selected...

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Vydané v:Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience Ročník 14; s. 98
Hlavní autori: Kesner, Ladislav, Fajnerová, Iveta, Adámek, Petr, Buchtík, Martin, Grygarová, Dominika, Hlinka, Jaroslav, Kozelka, Pavel, Nekovářová, Tereza, Španiel, Filip, Tintěra, Jaroslav, Alexová, Aneta, Greguš, David, Horáček, Jiří
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Lausanne Frontiers Research Foundation 11.09.2020
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Attention
attitude
Attitudes
Behavioral Neuroscience
Between-subjects design
Bias
Brain mapping
Brain research
conscientiousness
Empathy
fMRI
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Hostility
Information processing
Migration
Muslims
Noncitizens
Perceptions
Public spaces
refugee crisis
Refugees
Threats
Vigilance
Xenophobia
Europe
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Shrnutí:This study analyzes how people’s attitudes to the European refugee crisis (ERC) correspond to selected psychological state and trait measures and impact the neural processing of media images of refugees. From a large pool of respondents, who filled in an online xenophobia questionnaire, we selected two groups (total N = 38) with the same socio-demographic background, but with opposite attitudes toward refugees. We found that a negative attitude toward refugees (high xenophobia) was associated with a significantly higher conscientiousness score and with a higher trait aggression and hostility, but there was no group effect connected with empathy, fear, and anxiety measures. At the neural level we found that brain activity during the presentation of ERC stimuli is affected by xenophobic attitudes – with more xenophobic subjects exhibiting a higher BOLD response in the left fusiform gyrus. However, while the fMRI results demonstrate increased attention and vigilance toward ERC-related stimuli in the HX group, they do not show differentiated patterns of brain activity associated with perception of dehumanized outgroup.
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This article was submitted to Individual and Social Behaviors, a section of the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Reviewed by: Peter Hervik, Aarhus University, Denmark; Evgeny Gutyrchik, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Edited by: Gennady Knyazev, State Scientific-Research Institute of Physiology & Basic Medicine, Russia
ISSN:1662-5153
1662-5153
DOI:10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00098