Study: Heart Drug Propranolol Makes People Less Racist
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March 9, 2012
From Huffington Post
Researchers in Britain have found that a common drug called propranolol does in fact change the hearts of those who take it. The findings, published in the journal Psychopharmacology, offer new evidence about the processes in the brain that shape implicit racial bias, said Sylvia Terbeck, experimental psychologist and lead author of the study, London’s The Telegraph reports. “Implicit racial bias can occur even in people with a sincere belief in equality,” Terbeck said.
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