Jennifer T. Kubota
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View article: The psychological costs of behavioral immunity following COVID-19 diagnosis
The psychological costs of behavioral immunity following COVID-19 diagnosis Open
Prior COVID-19 infection may elevate activity of the behavioral immune system—the psychological mechanisms that foster avoidance of infection cues—to protect the individual from contracting the infection in the future. Such “adaptive behav…
View article: Uncovering Implicit Racial Bias in the Brain: The Past, Present & Future
Uncovering Implicit Racial Bias in the Brain: The Past, Present & Future Open
Neuroscience is a fantastic tool for peeking inside our minds and unpacking the component processes that drive social group biases. Brain research is vital for studying racial bias because neuroscientists can investigate these questions wi…
View article: Distrust as a form of inequality
Distrust as a form of inequality Open
Navigating social hierarchies is a ubiquitous aspect of human life. Social status shapes our thoughts, feelings, and actions toward others in various ways. However, it remains unclear how trust is conferred within hierarchies and how statu…
View article: Reading the mind in the eyes of Black and White people: Interracial contact and perceived race affects brain activity when inferring mental states
Reading the mind in the eyes of Black and White people: Interracial contact and perceived race affects brain activity when inferring mental states Open
Inferring others’ mental states, or mentalizing, is a critical social cognitive ability that underlies humans’ remarkable capacity for complex social interactions. Recent work suggests that interracial contact shapes the recruitment of bra…
View article: Perceiving social injustice during arrests of Black and White civilians by White police officers: An fMRI investigation
Perceiving social injustice during arrests of Black and White civilians by White police officers: An fMRI investigation Open
From social media to courts of law, recordings of interracial police officer-civilian interactions are now widespread and publicly available. People may be motivated to preferentially understand the dynamics of these interactions when they…
View article: Interracial contact differentially shapes brain networks involved in social and non-social judgments from faces: a combination of univariate and multivariate approaches
Interracial contact differentially shapes brain networks involved in social and non-social judgments from faces: a combination of univariate and multivariate approaches Open
The present work explores the relationship between interracial contact and the neural substrates of explicit social and non-social judgments about both racial ingroup and outgroup targets. Convergent evidence from univariate and multivaria…
View article: Impact of interracial contact on inferring mental states from facial expressions
Impact of interracial contact on inferring mental states from facial expressions Open
Although decades of research have shown that intergroup contact critically impacts person perception and evaluation, little is known about how contact shapes the ability to infer others' mental states from facial cues (commonly referred to…
View article: Punishing the privileged: Selfish offers from high-status allocators elicit greater punishment from third-party arbitrators
Punishing the privileged: Selfish offers from high-status allocators elicit greater punishment from third-party arbitrators Open
Individuals high in socioeconomic status (SES) are often viewed as valuable members of society. However, the appeal of high-SES people exists in tension with our aversion to inequity. Little experimental work has directly examined how peop…
View article: Black “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” task: The development of a task assessing mentalizing from black faces
Black “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” task: The development of a task assessing mentalizing from black faces Open
Researchers investigating various facets of theory of mind, sometimes referred to as mentalizing, are increasingly exploring how social group membership influences this process. To facilitate this research, we introduce the Black Reading t…
View article: Motivation Modulates Brain Networks in Response to Faces Varying in Race and Status: A Multivariate Approach
Motivation Modulates Brain Networks in Response to Faces Varying in Race and Status: A Multivariate Approach Open
Previous behavioral and neuroimaging work indicates that individuals who are externally motivated to respond without racial prejudice tend not to spontaneously regulate their prejudice and prefer to focus on nonracial attributes when evalu…
View article: The social neuroscience of race-based and status-based prejudice
The social neuroscience of race-based and status-based prejudice Open
The largely independent neuroscience literatures on race and status show increasingly that both constructs shape how we evaluate others. Following an overview and comparison of both literatures, we suggest that apparent differences in the …
View article: External motivation to avoid prejudice alters neural responses to targets varying in race and status
External motivation to avoid prejudice alters neural responses to targets varying in race and status Open
Those who are high in external motivation to respond without prejudice (EMS) tend to focus on non-racial attributes when describing others. This fMRI study examined the neural processing of race and an alternative yet stereotypically relev…
View article: Intergroup contact throughout the lifespan modulates implicit racial biases across perceivers’ racial group
Intergroup contact throughout the lifespan modulates implicit racial biases across perceivers’ racial group Open
Few researchers have investigated how contact across the lifespan influences racial bias and whether diversity of contact is beneficial regardless of the race of the perceiver. This research aims to address these gaps in the literature wit…
View article: Rapid race perception despite individuation and accuracy goals
Rapid race perception despite individuation and accuracy goals Open
Perceivers rapidly process social category information and form stereotypic impressions of unfamiliar others. However, a goal to individuate a target or to accurately predict their behavior can result in individuated impressions. It is unk…
View article: Racial stereotypes impair flexibility of emotional learning
Racial stereotypes impair flexibility of emotional learning Open
Flexibility of associative learning can be revealed by establishing and then reversing cue-outcome discriminations. Here, we used functional MRI to examine whether neurobehavioral correlates of reversal-learning are impaired in White and A…