PMID- 33967710
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20210513
IS  - 1662-5145 (Print)
IS  - 1662-5145 (Electronic)
IS  - 1662-5145 (Linking)
VI  - 15
DP  - 2021
TI  - Protect Others to Protect Myself: A Weakness of Western Countries in the Face of 
      Current and Future Pandemics? Psychological and Neuroscientific Perspectives.
PG  - 608151
LID - 10.3389/fnint.2021.608151 [doi]
LID - 608151
AB  - The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a large number of publications in the medical 
      and biological fields concerning the virus and its treatments, as well as in 
      psychology, social sciences, and data sciences with regard to the spread of the 
      virus. Surprisingly, far fewer neuroscientific articles have been published in 
      this field of research and one might well ask whether the cognitive neurosciences 
      have anything to say at all about this vital topic. In this article, we highlight 
      a research perspective relating to differences in the individual perception of 
      the pandemic in Western compared to Eastern countries. Although this problem is 
      complex, multifaceted and subsumes many other social variables, we suggest that 
      the cognitive neurosciences do have important and fundamental insights to 
      contribute concerning the collective response observed within these populations. 
      More precisely, we propose the hypothesis that differences in the propensity to 
      adopt a holistic perception of contamination processes at the group level, 
      involving brain structures that are also associated with perspective-taking and 
      empathy such as, in particular, the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the 
      anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), could help explain the differences in the 
      perception of the pandemic observed between Western and Eastern countries.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Mermillod and Morisseau.
FAU - Mermillod, Martial
AU  - Mermillod M
AD  - LPNC, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Grenoble, France.
FAU - Morisseau, Tiffany
AU  - Morisseau T
AD  - Universite de Paris, Laboratoire de Psychologie et d'Ergonomie Appliquees, 
      Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
AD  - Laboratoire de Psychologie et d'Ergonomie Appliquees, Univ. Gustave Eiffel, 
      Versailles, France.
AD  - Strane Innovation, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210422
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Integr Neurosci
JT  - Frontiers in integrative neuroscience
JID - 101477950
PMC - PMC8100433
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - SARS-CoV-2
OT  - cognitive neuroscience
OT  - intercultural psychology
OT  - pandemics
OT  - perspective-taking
OT  - social neurosciences
COIS- TM was employed by Strane Innovation. The remaining author declares that the 
      research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial 
      relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2021/05/11 06:00
MHDA- 2021/05/11 06:01
PMCR- 2021/04/22
CRDT- 2021/05/10 06:19
PHST- 2020/09/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/03/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/05/10 06:19 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/05/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/05/11 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/04/22 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fnint.2021.608151 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Integr Neurosci. 2021 Apr 22;15:608151. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2021.608151. 
      eCollection 2021.