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MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 6:41 pm
by 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
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 6:46 pm
by Genevieve
They might've just been more honest on E.
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 6:50 pm
by 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.
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 7:02 pm
by 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.
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 2:36 am
by jaydot
What if you hate brown people anyway?
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 3:18 am
by 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
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 3:36 am
by nousd
the producers/distributors of ice aren't racist
they'll sell it to anyone
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:09 am
by nowaysj
jaydot wrote:What if you hate brown people anyway?
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:59 am
by deadly_habit
What if they have a history of minorities selling them shit E?
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:28 am
by ultraspatial
i don't need drugs to be racist
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:46 am
by Nihilism
ultraspatial wrote: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.
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:25 am
by AxeD
Nihilism wrote:ultraspatial wrote: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?
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:35 am
by Nihilism
AxeD wrote:Nihilism wrote:ultraspatial wrote: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.
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 1:02 pm
by hubb
Wrong
Re: MDMA makes you racist
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 5:46 am
by rickyarbino
I dunno, white people seem to love me when they're on it.