Gender and Racial Bias Can Be "Unlearned" During Sleep

Source: The GuardianPlaying auditory cues during sleep partially undid biases, raising possibility of using the technique to make permanent behavioral changes. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the overlords use “sleep teaching” to condition children to submit to their sinister moral values. Now scientists have found a more noble purpose for the technique in a study that suggests deep-rooted biases about race and gender could be “unlearnt” during a short nap...