Interdisciplinary Studies on the Human Condition
evaluative conditioning procedure on white participants to reduce racial bias in a short period of time and with few trials. The first procedure determined that participants were unaware of the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus (positive associations Black individuals and negative associations with White individuals). The way this first step has been carried out is as follows. According to the adjectival connotation task, an error rate of 20% or more demonstrates a lack of attention and involvement, so the minimum requirement was not met and those cases were excluded. In the second stage, a bias minimization was demonstrated a factor calculated by an evaluative priming measure of automatically activated biases. In the third stage it was found that the reduction of racial prejudice excels over a distance of two days during the procedure and the administration of the dependent measure. Given that the initial hypothesis inferred the possibilities relatively correctly, and this study demonstrates a remarkable opportunity to utilize conditioning for societal beneficial purposes. The question from which this essay takes off indubitably raises a debate on the level of individual development and the importance of the environment, as well as natural endowment. So far, we have validated the possibility of moral intuition from a biological point of view, in which automatic decisions are factorial on the emotional side — a hypothesis supported by neurology and psychology. Furthermore, we have the role of the environment and the conditioning process, that is not felt systematically but which has the ability to alter the existence of factors that were pre-existing or irrelevant until the time of the procedure. Although it can be concluded that emotions are a prominent factor in ethics and moral intuition, a question arises regarding the nature of these emotions: whether they are primary, rational, logical, or created by conclusive factors that limit the individual to behave in an exact and calculated manner at certain moments, environments, or components.
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