Joan Y. Chiao
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How do cultural and biological forces give rise to everyday emotion and social interaction? I use a 'cultural neuroscience' framework to investigate how cultural factors influence basic psychological and neural processes underlying social behavior and emotion processing, using functional neuroimaging (fMRI), event-related potentials (ERP), genotyping and behavioral paradigms. Research in my lab also examines how high-level factors, such as race, gender and age, affect basic cognitive, perceptual and emotional processes. At a broader level, I'm interested in integrating psychology and neuroscience research with public policy and population health issues.
Primary Interests:
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Evolution and Genetics
- Health Psychology
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Intergroup Relations
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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Cultural Neuroscience: Bridging Cultural and Biological Sciences
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52:17 Cultural Neuroscience: Bridging Cultural and Biological Sciences
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61:38 Cultural Neuroscience and the Collective Good
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16:20 The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions
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65:0 Cultural Neuroscience: Where Does Human Diversity Come From?
Books:
- Chiao, J.Y. (2018). Philosophy of Cultural Neuroscience. New York: Routledge.
- Chiao, J. Y. (Ed.). (2009). Cultural neuroscience: Cultural influences on brain function (Progress in Brain Research, Volume 178). New York: Elsevier.
- Chiao, J.Y., Li, S.C., Seligman, R., Turner, R. (Eds.) (2016). Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Cheon, B.K. & Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Cultural variation in implicit mental illness stigma. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 43(7), 1058-1062.
- Cheon, B.K., Im, D.M., Harada, T., Kim, J.S., Mathur, V.A., Scimeca, J.M., Parrish, T.B., Park, H., Chiao, J.Y. (2013). Cultural modulation of the neural correlates of emotional pain perception: the role of other-focusedness. Neuropsychologia, 51(7), 1177-86.
- Chiao, J.Y. & Blizinsky, K.D. (2013). Population disparities in mental health: insights from cultural neuroscience. American Journal of Public Health, 103 Suppl 1:S122-32.
- Chiao, J. Y., & Blizinsky, K. D. (2010). Culture-gene coevolution of individualism-collectivism and the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1681), 529-537.
- Chiao, J. Y., Harada, T., Komeda, H., Li, Z., Mano, Y., Saito, D. N., Parrish, T. B., Sadato, N., & Iidaka, T. (2009). Neural basis of individualistic and collectivistic views of self. Human Brain Mapping, 30(9), 2813-2820.
- Chiao, J. Y., Harada, T., Oby, E. R., Li, Z., Parrish, T., & Bridge, D. J. (2009). Neural representations of social status hierarchy in human inferior parietal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 47(2), 354-363.
- Chiao, J. Y., Hariri, A. R., Harada, T., Mano, Y., Sadato, N., Parrish, T. B., & Iidaka, T. (2010). Theory and methods in cultural neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5(2-3), 356-361.
- Chiao, J. Y., Iidaka, T., Gordon, H. L., Nogawa, J., Bar, M., Aminoff, E., Sadato, N., & Ambady, N. (2008). Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(12), 2167-2174.
- Chiao, J.Y., Li, S.C., Turner, R., Lee-Tauler, S.Y., Pringle, B.A. (2017). Cultural neuroscience and global mental health: addressing grand challenges. Culture and Brain, 5(1), 4-13.
- Chiao, J. Y., Li, Z., & Harada, T. (2008). Cultural neuroscience of consciousness: From visual perception to self-awareness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10-11.
- Golby, A. J., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Chiao, J. Y., & Eberhardt, J. L. (2001). Differential responses in the fusiform region to same-race and other-race faces. Nature Neuroscience, 4(8), 845-850.
- Harada, T., Li, Z., Chiao, J. Y. (2010). Differential dorsal and ventral medial prefrontal representations of the implicit self modulated by individualism and collectivism: An fMRI study. Social Neuroscience, 22, 1-15.
- Mathur, V.A., Cheon, B.K., Harada, T., Scimeca, J.M., Chiao, J.Y. (2016). Overlapping neural response to the pain or harm of people, animals, and nature. Neuropsychologia, 81, 265-273.
- Mathur, V. A., Harada, T., Lipke, T., & Chiao, J. Y. (2010). Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation. Neuroimage, 51(4), 1468-1475.
- Mathur, V.A., Richeson, J.A., Paice, J.A., Muzyka, M., Chiao, J.Y. (2014). Racial bias in pain perception and response: experimental examination of automatic and deliberate processes. Journal of Pain, 15(5), 476-84.
Other Publications:
- Chiao, J. Y. (2011). Cultural neuroscience: Visualizing culture-gene influences on brain function. In J. Decety & J. Cacioppo (Eds.), Handbook of social neuroscience. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- Chiao, J. Y., & Ambady, N. (2007). Cultural neuroscience: Parsing universality and diversity across levels of analysis. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of cultural psychology (pp. 237-254). New York: Guilford Press.
Courses Taught:
- Cultural Brain
- Cultural Psychology
- Social and Emotional Brain
- Social, Cultural and Affective Neuroscience
Joan Y. Chiao
Highland Park, Illinois 60035
United States of America