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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @12:15PM
Psychology covers anything dealing with the brain or nervous system; psychology includes all branches of neuroscience and neurology, branches of pharmacology and toxicology, and many other things. Its about as scientific as you can get.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:45PM
Wrong, for the reasons already stated. Subjectivity, bias, and a lack of scientific rigor are seemingly more present. You cannot honestly claim that the social 'sciences' can compare to a field like, say, physics. There's simply too much subjective guesswork and too many instances where researchers fail to consider alternative possibilities than the ones their bias led them to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:55PM
Psychology is not a "social 'science'" as you put it. Try understand what psychology actually is [wikipedia.org] instead of making up your own definition for it to suit your argument. The biological and cognitive branches of psychology are just as "hard" a science as physics or chemistry, as is a significant chunk of the behavioral branch (behavioral neuroscience); there's far more to psychology than your intentionally-limited definition which only consists of the social and psychoanalysis branches.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @04:45PM
Well, I was obviously targeting the social sciences.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @06:38PM
Except for, you know, when you specifically said that psychology was one too. Some branches of psychology deal with stuff similar to social sciences, but "some" != "all". Psychology is not a "social 'science'" but some "social 'sciences'" may fall under psychology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2015, @03:37AM
Which I was specifically talking about things classified under social sciences. Looks like I caused confusion.