{"id":173060,"date":"2023-09-29T11:09:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/neuroimaging-study-reveals-hate-speech-dulls-brains-empathy-responses"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:41:30","slug":"neuroimaging-study-reveals-hate-speech-dulls-brains-empathy-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/neuroimaging-study-reveals-hate-speech-dulls-brains-empathy-responses","title":{"rendered":"Neuroimaging study reveals hate speech dulls brain\u2019s empathy responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroimaging-study-reveals-hate-speech-dulls-brains-empathy-responses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experimental neuroimaging study in Poland found that exposure to hate speech diminishes the brain\u2019s response to stories about other people suffering. The effect was present irrespective of the group membership of the person suffering in the story \u2013 whether they were Polish, like the participants, or Arab. The study was published in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>Hate speech is a form of communication that involves the expression of discriminatory, hostile, or prejudiced sentiments and ideas directed towards individuals or groups based on their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other characteristics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Exposure to hate speech deteriorates neurocognitive mechanisms of the ability to understand others\u2019 pain, was authored by Agnieszka Pluta, Joanna Mazurek, Jakub Wojciechowski, Tomasz Wolak, Wiktor Soral, and Micha\u0142 Bilewicz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental neuroimaging study in Poland found that exposure to hate speech diminishes the brain\u2019s response to stories about other people suffering. The effect was present irrespective of the group membership of the person suffering in the story \u2013 whether they were Polish, like the participants, or Arab. The study was published in Scientific Reports. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173115,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173060\/revisions\/173115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}