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[Arx]

I think the takeaway is that an oxytocin spray and the right pressures make people more likely to support immigrants.

[Neonivek]

I think the takeaway is that an oxytocin spray and the right pressures make people more likely to support immigrants.

I kind of love the idea of governments prescribing mood altering or mind altering drugs in order for you to fit more ideally in their ideologies.

[Sheb]

I think the takeaway is that an oxytocin spray and the right pressures make people more likely to support immigrants.

Which is hardly surprising as those things are linked to making people more altruistic. Not that this study is particularily interesting and/or relevent, apart from providing an excuse to diss each others.

[Neonivek]

Relaxed people are less stressed... Who knew?

Though the delicious part is just the implication that it might be prescribed in the future. Question is what country will do that first?

[scriver]

I think the takeaway is that an oxytocin spray and the right pressures make people more likely to support immigrants.

Which is hardly surprising as those things are linked to making people more altruistic. Not that this study is particularily interesting and/or relevent, apart from providing an excuse to diss each others.

Well, except from the literal idea of medicinally brainwashing people which the paper chose to frame the research in.

[Neonivek]

Am I guessing by that response Sciver that the intent of the research wasn't even that but rather that is how people politicized the research?

[scriver]

I don't know how the research was done, only the slant of the article. That's why I put it that way.

[Neonivek]

I mean I guess they might have been trying to find a link between Xenophobia and stress or agitation... and found that people who are less aggressive and stressed out tend to be less Xenophobic?

Then FREEKEN AGAIN how the WORLD did they come up with that drug? I REALLY hope they weren't prescribing it for that experiment. I guess it is possible it was demographics and found people who took a lot of that drug tended to be more favorable towards foreigners.

[smjjames]

Oxytocin as a medical drug has been around a while neonivek.

[da_nang]

Actual research press release

When they ask prescriptive questions like "How can people who tend to have a xenophobic attitude be motivated to be more altruistic?" people tend to question their motives as they make it sound like xenophobia is a mental illness - a plague - that needs to be cured.

Imagine if they started drugging all the asocial or introverted to be more extrovert.

Xenophobia is nowhere near debilitating enough for the "afflicted" person's normal life to need a "cure". Hell, I wouldn't even qualify it as a phobia. How many of the so-called "xenophobes" start having a panic attack at the sight of a refugee?

That doesn't take into account just how xenophobia is very human. Fear of the unknown, like avoiding animals with aggressive colors. The animal may not be dangerous in reality, but that doesn't mean the cat should go curiously poking around.

And this is all while taking the research out of the contemporary and political context it's surrounded in.

[Antioch]

Actually it is pretty insulting that rejecting immigration is deemed a phobia to begin with.

A phobia is an irrational fear. Rejecting immigration is a stance on a political issue.

[Neonivek]

It doesn't help that a LOT of the arguments for rejecting immigrants often are sort of irrationalities.

Then again in some of these cases the country cannot support the influx of immigrants and should probably hold back.

The problem... is that if you cannot get an amount, it becomes a problem of ideology rather than practicality.

[Sheb]

Actually it is pretty insulting that rejecting immigration is deemed a phobia to begin with.

A phobia is an irrational fear. Rejecting immigration is a stance on a political issue.

Well, that's the word we're stuck with. Just like everyone knows that Homophobes don't go in panic attacks when they see men kissing and that anti-semites actually don't hate non-jewish semitic people, people know that xenophobia isn't technically a phobia.

[da_nang]

Van plows through crowded boulevard in Barcelona.
^{Plot twist: Antitourist terrorism. /s}

[scriver]

My family lives there.