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racial empathy gap: a standalone construct

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racialempathy gap1 CONSTRUCTRacial empathy gapTRAWALTER · SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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the tendency to assume that Black people feel less pain than White people, which reduces empathy and may affect treatment.

In social psychology, racial empathy gap refers to the tendency to assume that Black people feel less pain than White people, which reduces empathy and may affect treatment. This meaning comes from Trawalter (2012) in PLoS ONE.[1]

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  1. Trawalter, S., Hoffman, K. M., & Waytz, A. (2012). Racial Bias in Perceptions of Others’ Pain. PLoS ONE, 7(11), e48546. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048546

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