Stronger brain activation for own baby but similar activation toward babies of own and different ethnicities in parents living in a multicultural environment

Abstract Specific facial features in infants automatically elicit attention, affection, and nurturing behaviour of adults, known as the baby schema effect. There is also an innate tendency to categorize people into in-group and out-group members based on salient features such as ethnicity. Societies...

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Main Authors: Bindiya Lakshmi Raghunath, Kelly Hwee Leng Sng, S. H. Annabel Chen, Vimalan Vijayaragavan, Balázs Gulyás, Peipei Setoh, Gianluca Esposito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15289-1