Gender and racial prejudices can be reduced in sleep

     

Study results showed that take part good than the 56% reduction in the level of ethnic bias occurred a week after the preliminary results of a 20% reduction in their scores remained.

LONDON: Sleep experts say that not only increases our mental strength, but also help to reduce gender and racial prejudices can.

    The gender, race and ethnicity related to hereditary prejudices did a study on ways to reduce Which is defined handed his insensible prejudices that people do not know anything about such thoughts and behaviors that they own.

Published in the online edition of the journal Science, the study suggests our brains are biased information stored in the memory We do not know about them, and this information is used hyjb then we decide.

North West University associate director of CognitiveNeuroscience, said Ken parlor stereotypes even if we do not agree this typecast in our minds are like the hidden message.

    Northwestern University psychologist and associate professor, head of the study are sajng said "these prejudices have been well thought out and it may still active With good intentions when we try to avoid such prejudices and in addition we often are not aware of their impact on our behavior..

  Researchers in an experience of 40 years in men and women between ages 18 and 30 were added Who initially completed a test in which their inherent racial and gender prejudices were identified.

Researchers participants to connect words with different faces, participants in the experiment nykuatyn scientific vocabulary words associated with the aesthetic.The black faces often been associated  with good rather than large words.

1.   The computer-based training, the participants were given the different types of joints as shown in the faces and words, such as words for black people 'name, honor,' Smile 'and' be happy ', while women were associated with scientific words.
2. Participants were asked whether they had a device that appears on the computer screen, press the right button on the connection.

During the experiment, participants repeatedly pressing the button activate two distinct voices, which were connected with the gender and racial pairs.

After the training session participants to measure levels of   prejudices participated in a second test 90 minutes in which they were asked to take a short nap and when he was asleep without the knowledge of his experience as a Chairperson of the voices during the run again.

Study results showed that participants in the gold than the 56 percent decline in the level of racial prejudice while the initial results after a week of sustained 20% reduction in their scores.

Ken parlor scientific paper's senior researcher, says that "this experience is to enable the target memor Because it sounds like gestures during sleep information may create a better memory. "y

Author sajng are the "sleep memory to enable increased counter stereotypes, but more tests need to be reviewed in whose What a week that marks out these effects can be maintained and how they impact on our attitudes might change. "