Talk:Rene Hurlemann

Oxytocin-Study

"The same year, Rene suggested that in order for anyone to accept migrants, the best thing to do is to give the population the dose of oxytocin, which will decrease their anti-migration sentiment and therefore make them more acceptable toward migrants.[8]"

I've made this edit before, but that is simply not what he said (even though a lot of right-wing websites have reported it this way). In the article on "freewestmedia" that's given as reference, Hurlemann is quoted saying "Given the right circumstances, oxytocin may help promote the acceptance and integration of migrants into Western cultures". Now, saying "oxytocin promotes acceptance" is the same as "the best thing to do is to give people oxytocin" is absurd. Let me make a comparison: "saliva helps digesting food" is not the same as "the best thing for digestion is to give people a dose of saliva".

In their original study, they write even more concrete what they have in mind: "Given evidence indicating that social group activities with peers, such as singing in a choir (44), are associated with elevated endogenous OXT release (45), our findings suggest that greater focus should be placed on enabling positive social encounters among citizens of hosting countries that communicate a prosocial norm; that is, by affirming and emphasizing the benefits of ethnic diversity, religious pluralism, and cultural differentiation."

That is not the same as claiming the researchers want to drug the general population.

I will therefore rewrite the sentence in the article.

Thanks for doing that.--Biografer (talk) 22:00, 17 September 2019 (UTC)