Friday, February 10, 2012

Skin Color May Affect Pain Empathy: Study

(CNN) UPDATED 2010-05-27
A new study has found that though human beings are hardwired to feel each other's pain, they feel less empathy when the other person's skin color does not match their own. Researchers say people's nervous systems respond to watching another's pain as though they themselves are experiencing it, even though humans don't feel the other person's actual physical pain. But in the new study, investigators found that this automatic process is blunted when the other person is not of the same race. The scientists say their finding could have important implications for health care as well as social harmony.
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