MDMA makes you racist

[nobody]

http://time.com/49399/mdma-molly-ecstas ... ?hpt=hp_t3

A new study from the Netherlands suggests that the "love hormone" oxytocin, triggered by the party drug MDMA, might only make you love people in your in-group and can contribute to conflict with outsiders

The hormone released by the popular party drug Molly — also known as Ecstasy or MDMA — doesn’t only make you feel all loved-up and happy, but also racist and nepotistic, a new study suggests.

The oxytocin hormone, which is triggered by MDMA, is often described as the “love hormone” or “cuddling chemical,” but there might be a darker side to it.

In the study, professor of psychology at the University of Amsterdam Carsten de Dreu found that the loved-up feeling you get after taking MDMA, or being flooded with oxytocin, only extends to your “in-group.”

Oxytocin, he said, “motivates in-group favoritism” and “derogation” of outsiders. He added that it had “a role in the emergence of intergroup conflict and violence.”

In the study’s experiments, the participants — all Dutch males — were told that they had to choose five persons out of six that would gain access to a life-saving lifeboat.

The men on oxytocin were more likely to deny men with Muslim or German-sounding names access and save the men with Dutch names, while the men who were given a placebo didn’t pay attention to the origin of the names. So maybe oxytocin and MDMA are not as touchy-feely as we thought

[Genevieve]

They might've just been more honest on E.

[Spamoni]

That's a pretty interesting study, though personally I did not experiement with MDMA until after Psilocybin and LSD. After having experienced and learned from those substances I was relieved of a lot of racism and hatred towards people that I harbored in my youth. So my MDMA experiences that followed were the typical, "I LOVE EVERYONE" I don't remember ever feeling or thinking about excluding anyone from anything while rolling, but I definitely extended my "in-group" lol.

[skins345669]

Great spin to get that headline out of that study.

Doesn't sound like a hugely well-designed study either, but I'd have to check it myself before I can give any more comment.

[jaydot]

What if you hate brown people anyway?

[test_recordings]

Been corrected to show it's nothing to do with MDMA. Poor reporting....

Still left the pill pic up though, really trying to make that link still

[nousd]

the producers/distributors of ice aren't racist
they'll sell it to anyone

[nowaysj]

What if you hate brown people anyway?

[deadly_habit]

What if they have a history of minorities selling them shit E?

[ultraspatial]

i don't need drugs to be racist

[Nihilism]

i don't need drugs to be racist

You only need it to murda them and blame it on the drugs, so they will reduce your punishment.

[AxeD]

i don't need drugs to be racist

You only need it to murda them and blame it on the drugs, so they will reduce your punishment.

Will the NSA disregard this comment?

[Nihilism]

i don't need drugs to be racist

You only need it to murda them and blame it on the drugs, so they will reduce your punishment.

Will the NSA disregard this comment?

Yeah, i went too far with that comment.

[hubb]

Wrong

[rickyarbino]

I dunno, white people seem to love me when they're on it.