Race-based biases in judgments of social pain

Deska, Jason C.; Kunstman, Jonathan W.; Lloyd, E. Paige; Almaraz, Steven M.; Bernstein, Michael J.; Gonzales, Josh; Hugenberg, Kurt

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2020.103964

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“…Meta-analyses suggested that biases in judgments of both threat and status were also associated with a tendency to prescribe more pain reliever to White versus Black targets. The latter link between status and treatment bias is in line with previous work suggesting that assumptions regarding status and toughness underpin racial bias in attributions of physical pain (Trawalter et al, 2012) and social pain (Deska, Kunstman, Bernstein, et al, 2020; Deska, Kunstman, Lloyd, et al, 2020). Moreover, it is possible that these perceptual and stereotype-based sources of biases in treatment may be differentially regulable.…”

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“…In particular, Black patients are less likely to be screened for, diagnosed with, and treated for depression than their White counterparts (Hahm et al, 2015; Simpson et al, 2007; Stockdale et al, 2008). Recent findings link these disparities to race-based gaps in attributions of social pain (Deska, Kunstman, Bernstein, et al, 2020; Deska, Kunstman, Lloyd, et al, 2020). While research on the links between facial expressivity and disorders like depression remains mixed (e.g., Rottenberg & Vaughan, 2008), future work could begin to examine the perceptual underpinnings of racial disparities in mental health care.…”

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Seeing no pain: Assessing the generalizability of racial bias in pain perception.

Mende-Siedlecki¹,

Lin²,

Ferron³

et al. 2021

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Racial disparities in pain care may stem, in part, from perceptual roots. It remains unresolved, however, whether this perceptual gap is driven by general deficits in intergroup emotion recognition, endorsement of specific racial stereotypes, or an interaction between the two. We conducted four experiments (total N = 635) assessing relationships between biases in pain perception and treatment and biases in the perception of anger, happiness, fear, and sadness. Participants saw Black and White male targets making increasingly painful and angry (Experiment 1), happy (Experiment 2), fearful (Experiment 3), or sad expressions (Experiment 4). The effect of target race consistently varied based on the emotion displayed. Participants repeatedly saw pain more readily on White (vs. Black) male faces. However, while participants also saw sadness less readily on Black faces, perception of anger, fear, and happiness did not vary by target race. Moreover, the tendency to see pain less readily on Black faces predicted similar differences in recognizing (particularly negative) expressions, though only racial bias in pain perception facilitated similar biases in treatment. Finally, while endorsement of racialized threat stereotypes facilitated recognition of angry expressions and was marginally associated with impeded recognition of happy expressions on Black faces, gaps in pain perception were not reliably related to stereotype endorsement. These data suggest that while racial bias in pain perception is associated with a general bias in recognizing negative emotion on Black male faces, the effects of target race on pain perception are particularly robust and have distinct consequences for gaps in treatment.

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Seeing no pain: Assessing the generalizability of racial bias in pain perception.

Mende-Siedlecki¹,

Lin²,

Ferron³

et al. 2021

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“…A related bipartite conceptualization of dehumanization focuses on the tendency to overlook or deny others complex mental states, consisting of agency (capacity to think and act) and experience (capacity to feel [7,8]). For example, some socially stigmatized groups (e.g., Black Americans) are attributed less capacity to feel pain, with important consequences (e.g., racial bias in treatment recommendations [9,10]). Other work demonstrated dampened activation in brain regions central to social cognition when thinking about members of stigmatized groups [11] (see [12,13] for reviews).…”

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Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges

Kteily

Landry

2022

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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“…For instance, bystanders may fail to adequately empathize with the experience of bullied peers (Martocci, 2019), may hold a higher threshold for what constitutes emotional pain for peers of some ethnoracial groups relative to others (Deska et al, 2020), may show more of a neural response upon witnessing a friend's social pain compared to a stranger's (Meyer et al, 2013), and may dissociate from bullied peers to avoid becoming victims of bullying themselves (Machackova et al, 2016;Salmivalli, 2001). In addition, the bystander effect illustrates that an individual's likelihood of helping decreases when there is a larger audience, whether in-person or online (Fischer et al, 2011;Machackova, 2016).…”

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Misery Implicitly Loves Company: Implicit Homophily and Bully Victimization

Saraf¹,

Khalil²,

Willis³

et al. 2021

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This study focuses on the formation of bullied individuals’ friendships and romantic relationships. Individuals bullied in their past may be more likely to form connections with those who share similar oppressive experiences. Thus, we investigated the possibility that implicit homophily underlies the formation of interpersonal relationships amongst previously bullied individuals. Moreover, we investigated whether these individuals were aware of their friends’ and romantic partners’ similarly oppressive experiences prior to initiating the relationship. Our findings suggest that the young adults in our sample bullied in grade school are significantly more likely to have a close friend and or significant other who also experienced bullying. The findings of this study contribute to the relatively small, yet growing, body of research on implicit homophily, add to research extending homophily processes to bullies and victims, and are in line with research suggesting that deselection (a form of induced homophily) can coexist with homophily by personal preference.

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Race-based biases in judgments of social pain

Cited by 41 publications

References 60 publications

Seeing no pain: Assessing the generalizability of racial bias in pain perception.

Seeing no pain: Assessing the generalizability of racial bias in pain perception.

Dehumanization: trends, insights, and challenges

Misery Implicitly Loves Company: Implicit Homophily and Bully Victimization

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