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Trust in a Bottle

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the better-than-beer dept.

flosofl writes "The BBC has a report on oxytocin and its ability to skew our trust levels. 'The participants in the study played a game, in which they were split into "investors" and "trustees." The investors were then given credits and told they could chose whether to hand over zero, four, eight or 12 credits to their assigned trustee.' Some of the investors were given oxytocin via nasal spray. The results were surprising: 'Of 29 investors who were given oxytocin, 13 (45%) displayed "maximal trust" by choosing to invest highly, compared to six (21%) of the 29 investors who were given the dummy spray.' When the trustee was a computer, there was no difference between the two test groups."

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  1. Re:Now we know why.... by TheKidWho · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course even though one new where Heisenburg was in 1941 you could never tell what direction he was taking at that time.
    Must have to do with that damned uncertainty principle.

  2. Re:Too Small of a Test by The+OPTiCIAN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So... this guy gets modded up as funny (which it is I guess), but the comments talking about statistical significance and which are therefore directly relevent to the topic have a lower rating..

    ?!

    It would be nice if there was a feature in the interface to turn off allegedly funny comments rather than it being limited to your session.

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  3. Jedi Mind Trick by pintomp3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you will believe this study...

  4. You distract her, I'll slip it in her taco by b00m3rang · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aren't we supposed to give her the Spanish Fly first? Beavis, you dumbass.

  5. Something broken ??(OT, but not alone) by Mycroft_VIII · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just me, or are there a LOT of posts in this that clearly belong with other topics.
    I'm seeing posts on other slashdot stories subjects all over the place here right in the middle of threads.
    I droped down to read at -1 thinking maybe just a couple people STARTED talking about these subjects through some sort of connection that got modded down but it only showed up more post that belong in other topics, some clearly replies to someone else, yet not to thier parent post.
    So is this some new form of trolling/crapflooding or is slashdot broken?

    Mycroft

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    1. Re:Something broken ??(OT, but not alone) by DJCF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Been noticing it for a week or so now, or about the time the slashcode was upgraded to (amoung other things) use CAPTCHAs. Hmm, I now notice the CAPTCHAs have disapeared. Never liked 'em anyway.