Propranolol reduces implicit negative racial bias

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 222, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 419-424

  Terbeck, Sylvia ^a   Kahane, Guy ^b   McTavish, Sarah ^a   Savulescu, Julian ^b   Cowen, Philip J ^a   Hewstone, Miles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Explicit prejudice; Implicit racial bias; Noradrenaline; Propranolol

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ACTIVITY; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; PROPRANOLOL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84864480145     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-012-2657-5     Document Type: Article

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