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Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism

submitted by Garrett to science 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 15:51:56 ago (+4/-0)     (archive.ph)

https://archive.ph/0yj6o

For example, studies on animal cognition show that male rodents engineered to lack forebrain oxytocin receptors recognized but no longer discriminated between familiar (in-group) and novel (out-group) stimulus females (20, 21). If brain oxytocin indeed sustains and motivates human ethnocentrism at the neurobiological level, we should find that humans given oxytocin show more in-group favoritism than those given placebo.


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My earlier point is that you can condition people to accept someone out-group as ingroup. Thats why they put all those niggers on sesame street. Oxytocin effect will vary based on conditioning.