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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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[ - ] Paradoxical003 2 points 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 16:17:17 ago (+2/-0)

Love is not true without preference.

Love is not true without an accompanying hate for that which threatens what is loved.

Universal love is as paralyzing as Universal apathy, bit at least the latter is genuine, Universal love is a fake platitude without meaning.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 17:33:57 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] PostWallHelena 1 point 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 16:04:36 ago (+1/-0)

Okay but why? These were adults that were administered oxytocin.

Babies get early doses of oxytocin during breast feeding. This is when a baby is imprinting on its mom who is presumably of the same race. So perhaps later exposure to oxytocin causes this imprinting to be recalled.

What implications does this have for the use of formula over breast milk in this context?

[ - ] Garrett [op] 3 points 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 16:08:08 ago (+3/-0)*

Ethnocentrism is biological in origin and a superior evolutionary strategy to altruism. Source: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html https://archive.ph/TiNKM
Humans are more altruistic to individuals who they are more closely related to. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17456276 https://archive.ph/Wg3AD

Ethnocentrism is universal and likely evolved in origin. Source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/research/AxHamm_Ethno.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20041014171037/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/research/AxHamm_Ethno.pdf

Kinship between members of an ethnic group is greater than expected. Source: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.372.1009 https://archive.ph/QlAY2



Babies begin producing their own oxytocin even before they are born, and it looks as though they respond a lot like adults. For instance, skin-to-skin contact appears to raise oxytocin levels in both parents and infants (Vittner et al 2018).


https://archive.ph/CXnEt


Bias against miscegenation is likely biological in origin. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19422626

https://archive.ph/VXFTd

[ - ] PostWallHelena 1 point 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 16:14:54 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah my question was more rhetorical and aimed at implementation. The relevant biological mechanisms

Im not trying to ask why ethnocentrism makes sense in evolution. Altruism really makes the most sense in an ethnocentric context. Mostly.

[ - ] Garrett [op] 1 point 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 16:20:26 ago (+1/-0)*

agreed. in group empathy is most important

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 16:30:54 ago (+0/-0)

Reread what I said. There is no strength in numbers if you don’t have altruism among your own group. Niggers are never very strong in numbers for the reason that they kill themselves nearly as readily as whites. Altruism works in an ethnocentric (homogeneous) society. It is not an either/or issue.

[ - ] breh 0 points 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 18:59:09 ago (+0/-0)

[ - ] Garrett [op] 0 points 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 19:02:09 ago (+0/-0)

thats interesting. i dont know what happened


Oxytocin promoted intergroup bias: Under oxytocin, males were more likely to sacrifice out-group targets than in-group targets [F(1, 68) = 17.27, P < 0.001]; under placebo, this tendency was not significant [F(1, 68) = 1.17, P < 0.284].

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3.6 yearsOct 21, 2021 19:46:43 ago (+0/-0)

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.