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    Study:"oxytocin may help promote..acceptance and integration of migrants into Western culture"

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    Never before have individuals had to adapt to social environments defined by such magnitudes of ethnic diversity and cultural differentiation. However, neurobiological evidence informing about strategies to reduce xenophobic sentiment and foster altruistic cooperation with outsiders is scarce. In a series of experiments settled in the context of the current refugee crisis, we tested the propensity of 183 Caucasian participants to make donations to people in need, half of whom were refugees (outgroup) and half of whom were natives (ingroup). Participants scoring low on xenophobic attitudes exhibited an altruistic preference for the outgroup, which further increased after nasal delivery of the neuropeptide oxytocin. In contrast, participants with higher levels of xenophobia generally failed to exhibit enhanced altruism toward the outgroup. This tendency was only countered by pairing oxytocin with peer-derived altruistic norms, resulting in a 74% increase in refugee-directed donations. Collectively, these findings reveal the underlying sociobiological conditions associated with outgroup-directed altruism by showing that charitable social cues co-occurring with enhanced activity of the oxytocin system reduce the effects of xenophobia by facilitating prosocial behavior toward refugees.


    http://www.pnas.org/content/early/20...14.short?rss=1




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    Oxytocin and social norms reduce xenophobia

    Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn increased altruistic behavior, even in those with a fear of foreigners

    University of Bonn



    We tend to be more altruistic to our own family and friends than to perfect strangers. The recent migration of Middle Eastern refugees into European societies has further magnified the issue, with a large divide in society between people who do and do not support the refugees. "This is partly due to evolution: Only through solidarity and cooperation within one's own group was it possible to raise children and survive when competing against unknown and rivaling groups for scarce resources in pre-civilized times," explains Prof. Rene Hurlemann from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn Medical Center. However, this is diametrically opposed to the parable of the Good Samaritan, which serves as an example of selfless altruism by describing a Samaritan who incurs personal costs to help a stranger in need. "From a neurobiological perspective, the basis of xenophobia and altruism is not yet precisely understood," says Hurlemann.

    Under the psychiatrist's supervision, a team of researchers at the University of Bonn, the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa (USA), and the University of Lübeck conducted three experiments in which they tested a total of 183 subjects, who were all German natives. In the Laboratory for Experimental Economics (BonnEconLab) at the University of Bonn, they completed a donation task on a computer. The donation task included 50 authentic case vignettes describing the personal needs of poor people, 25 of which were portrayed as local people in need, while the other 25 people were portrayed as refugees.

    With an endowment of 50 euros, the participants could decide for each individual case whether they wanted to donate a sum between zero and one euro. The test subjects were allowed to keep any money that was not donated. "We were surprised that the participants in the first experiment donated around 20 percent more to refugees than to local people in need," says Nina Marsh from Prof. Hurlemann's team.

    Questionnaire on attitude towards migrants

    In another independent experiment involving over 100 participants, the subjects' personal attitudes towards refugees were assessed in a questionnaire. Then half of the group received the bonding hormone oxytocin via a nasal spray, while the other half of the group received a placebo before they were exposed to the donation task established in the first experiment: again the participants decided how much of their 50 euros they wanted to donate to locals or refugees.

    Under the influence of oxytocin, the individuals who tended to show a positive attitude towards refugees doubled their donations to both the locals and the refugees. However, oxytocin had no effect in individuals who expressed a rather defensive attitude towards migrants: In those participants, the tendency to donate was very low to locals and refugees alike. "Oxytocin clearly increases generosity towards those in need, however, if this altruistic fundamental attitude is missing, the hormone alone cannot create it," says Hurlemann.

    Oxytocin in combination with social norms decreases xenophobia

    How can people who tend to have a xenophobic attitude be motivated to be more altruistic? The researchers assumed that the addition of social norms could be a starting point. In a third experiment, they thus presented the participants with the average donation their peers made in the first experiment under each case vignette. Half of the participants once again received oxytocin. The result was astounding. "Now, even people with negative attitudes towards migrants donated up to 74 percent more to refugees than in the previous round," reports Nina Marsh. Through the combined administration of oxytocin with a social norm, the donations for refugees in those skeptical towards migrants nearly reached half of the sums donated by the group, which showed a positive attitude towards refugees.

    What conclusions can be drawn from these results? It appears that pairing oxytocin with a social norm can help counter the effects of xenophobia by enhancing altruistic behavior toward refugees. "The combined enhancement of oxytocin and peer influence could diminish selfish motives," says Hurlemann. If people whom we trust, such as supervisors, neighbors or friends, act as a role model by making public their positive attitude towards refugees, more people would probably feel motivated to help. In such a prosocial context, oxytocin could increase trust and minimize anxiety - experience shows that the oxytocin level in the blood increases during social interaction and shared activities. "Given the right circumstances, oxytocin may help promote the acceptance and integration of migrants into Western cultures," says Hurlemann.

    https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/...-oas081217.php
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    Oxycontin with a dash of psychotropic drugs will help you accept tyranny.

    I am so sick of Big pHARMa!!
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    Isopropyl alcohol can make it impossible to distinguish skin color, too...
    So will methyl alcohol.

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    Take your SOMA

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Take your SOMA
    Yeah, I was just thinking, "A lot of drugs will make you more obedient to suggestion."

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    Study:"oxytocin may help promote..acceptance and integration of migrants into Western culture"
    Are they giving it to the migrants to promote their "integration", or is this just to dope up the natives so they don't care as they are pushed out by a new culture?

    It doesn't seem to be working in Afghanistan. If they really are all doped up on opium, why do they keep resisting integration into the US Empire and culture? They need to "accept" the new culture.
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    Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
    Oxycontin with a dash of psychotropic drugs will help you accept tyranny.

    I am so sick of Big pHARMa!!
    Fwiw, oxytocin and oxycontin are not the same thing. Contin is a opiate drug, Tocin is a naturally produced hormone.
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    lol c'mon guys...

    Oxytocin is the chemical your brain makes when you fall in love.

    It makes you feel so good that it helps you ignore all of the faults of the object of your affection.
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    Earlier studies showed that people who are given extra Oxytocin have increased racism, of a sort. This was a lifeboat study, people in the Netherlands were either given extra Oxytocin or not. The people given the extra Oxytocin were more likely to put people like themselves into that lifeboat. People with extra oxytocin did not put people with german names on the lifeboat.

    http://time.com/49399/oxytocin-racism-study/

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    lol c'mon guys...

    Oxytocin is the chemical your brain makes when you fall in love.

    It makes you feel so good that it helps you ignore all of the faults of the object of your affection.
    Temporary insanity ensues, regardless of which substance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by devil21 View Post
    Temporary insanity ensues, regardless of which substance.
    I didn't want to say anything.

    (shoulda went with my instincts)
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    Quote Originally Posted by devil21 View Post
    Fwiw, oxytocin and oxycontin are not the same thing. Contin is a opiate drug, Tocin is a naturally produced hormone.
    My bad. Thanks for the correction.
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    Researchers surrender petty sums of grant money to ordinary people. They are blown away by the largess of their test subjects with small sums of other people's money, at no risk to the test subjects' bottom line or perceived freedoms. Once again, researchers prove that researchers are completely stupid, and they know nothing about human nature.
    In the Laboratory for Experimental Economics (BonnEconLab) at the University of Bonn, they completed a donation task on a computer. The donation task included 50 authentic case vignettes describing the personal needs of poor people, 25 of which were portrayed as local people in need, while the other 25 people were portrayed as refugees.

    With an endowment of 50 euros, the participants could decide for each individual case whether they wanted to donate a sum between zero and one euro. The test subjects were allowed to keep any money that was not donated. "We were surprised that the participants in the first experiment donated around 20 percent more to refugees than to local people in need," says Nina Marsh from Prof. Hurlemann's team.
    ... fascinating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    lol c'mon guys...

    Oxytocin is the chemical your brain makes when you fall in love.

    It makes you feel so good that it helps you ignore all of the faults of the object of your affection.
    Mrs O has no problem remembering my faults even though she loves me .



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