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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: 1) by Murdoc on Sunday May 31 2015, @02:01AM

    by Murdoc (2518) on Sunday May 31 2015, @02:01AM (#190282)

    Yeah, I liked Wash's comment there too.

    So why do you think that so many people here seem against these ideas? They generally seem in favor of more critical thinking education in other threads, so is it just this issue? Maybe it's just random chance who happened to comment; not everyone sees every post and comment. I saw the responses to your recent 'troll' post, and while people did bring up some valid additional factors, they were far from as useful of solutions to the problem. Such as "more diversity", etc. Well, to get that, you pretty much have to reduce the racism first, don't you? But with CT, you can teach people that, not for the purpose of changing their minds about racism directly, but to help them in their lives, such as careers, relationships, education, avoiding scams, etc., and I can't see many people not wanting that (one term I like is "intellectual self-defence"). Then, once they are good at it, they'll have to apply it to their racism/sexism/whatever, and if they are good enough, they will change their minds. One strategy I'd like to try for instance is teaching them about meme allergies [lucifer.com]. If you can get them to agree that they are bad, and that looking for your own and eradicating them is a good idea, they'll practically do it themselves (although some may need help with that). A more comprehensive CT program would likely work even better, I think.