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Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing

posted by martyb on Friday May 29 2015, @11:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the bias-removal-or-indoctrination? dept.

An Anonymous Coward wrote in with the news that a Sleep study raises hope for clinical treatment of racism, sexism and other biases

When the desired behavior is performed, a sound is played. When the test subjects reach deep sleep, that same sound is played repeatedly. Subjects were then more likely to perform the desired behavior.

The article, "Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep" appears in the journal Science; an abstract and full report are available.

[Original Submission - Ed.]

 
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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday May 30 2015, @09:54AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Saturday May 30 2015, @09:54AM (#190047) Homepage
    And just for reference - I was actually biassed against her before reading/watching any of her stuff simply because of the name of the website. (Which makes me shallow, I know.)
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