Racist newspaper stories are permanently damaging your brain, study finds

Spiers also made a point about his research in the context of Islamophobia: ‘When you look at Islam, for example, there’s so many more negative stories than positive ones and that will build up over time.'

University College London neuroscientist Hugo Spiers gathered 22 volunteers and scanned their brains while they were told about two fictitious groups of people – the Kitils and the Pellums.

The two main groups were secretly assigned as ‘good’ (Pellums) and ‘bad’ (Kitils) and two thirds of the information provided to the participants fit that stereotype and one third did not.

Brain scans revealed that activity in the brain matched the growing prejudice they felt towards a certain group.

The negative groups become treated as more and more negative. Worse than the equivalent for the positive groups.

Spiers also made a point about his research in the context of Islamophobia: ‘When you look at Islam, for example, there’s so many more negative stories than positive ones and that will build up over time.'

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So, clear proof that racist articles cause mental retardation. It is clearly a national health issue. We must ban racist articles before the entire population succumbs to mental retardation.

Oh, but wait a minute... doesn't this study just show that people associate bad things with a certain group, if given information associating bad things with that group? How does that justify the headline?

I cant stand bloody Kitils always coming to our country and stealing out jobs. I mean I dont hate all of them one of my friends is a Kitil but they should really stay in their own country.

Except, unlike Islam, neo-Nazis aren't a race,

Except, unlike Islam, neo-Nazis aren't a race, so negative articles about neo-Nazis aren't racism.

It'd be more groundbreaking if they were being prejudiced and on their mri's they had nothing but thin air... There's brain a ctivity with every thought/action we make as human beings.

So either you haven't explained the results or you have mental retardation