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Mina Cikara is the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University's Department of Psychology and director of the Intergroup Neuroscience Lab. She investigates how group membership and competition disrupt empathy processes and lead to dehumanization, discrimination, and conflict. Her research employs behavioral experiments, fMRI, and physiological measurements to study failures of empathy across group boundaries.
Research interests include:
- Intergroup bias and prejudice
- Affective neuroscience
- Social identity processes
- Empathy failures
- Consequences of intergroup conflict
Cikara's research has been recognized with prestigious awards including the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellowship. Her publications span political polarization, emotion regulation, and intergroup relations, employing diverse methodologies from large-scale behavioral interventions to neuroimaging studies.
