UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–8 March 2012. Taking a heart disease medication can affect a person’s subconscious attitudes towards race, a team of ethicists, psychiatrists and psychologists at Oxford University has found.
In a study published in Psychopharmacology, researchers gave 18 people the drug propranolol and 18 people a placebo and found that the propranolol group scored significantly lower on the Implicit Attitude Test into subconscious racial bias – a standard test for testing subconscious racial attitudes. There…
