Experiments show that alcohol cannot be used as an excuse for doing something wrong.
To the perfect "drunk" are, as they say, with understanding. Like, alcohol "broke the brakes", so the man said too much. Or overjoyed. Or, on the contrary, became violent. In general, he is meek.
There is no doubt that antisocial behavior is a direct consequence of drinking too much. There are plenty of studies demonstrating the close relationship of both. As well as funny stories and anecdotes.
What about moral principles? What happens to them? Does alcohol provoke immoral acts? Or, on the contrary, awakens conscience and nobility? British psychologists from the School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, led by Kathryn B. Francis, tried to answer these questions.
Researchers simulated situations that required certain decisive actions, which the subjects performed in accordance with their ideas about morality and ethics. At first, they were sober, and then, as you might guess, "drunk". After an impressive number of glasses of vodka.
The situations accompanied by demonstrations of the corresponding scenes in virtual reality were different. For example, the following picture appeared before the eyes of the subjects: the rails on which the railway workers work - 5 people. A cart rolls downhill on them. Railroad workers do not hear or see her. That is, they are about to be crushed. And on the platform next to the tracks is a very large man - a huge fat man. By pushing it onto the rails, the cart can be stopped. You have to choose. Sacrifice one life to save several? Or do nothing, relying on chance? After all, the fat man would have to be killed. Is that bad.
Making these or those morally motivated decisions, the subjects immersed themselves in virtual reality.
The solutions, of course, were different. But the point is not in this, but in the fact that they did not change - regardless of whether the subject was sober or drunk. What the researchers described in detail in the journal Psychopharmacology, and briefly introduced the portal ScienceAlert.
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Conclusion: having done something vile while drunk, you should not blame alcohol. And to justify their immoral actions with them. It's just that you are so immoral in life. And sober they were capable of nasty things.
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Scientists have explained why drunk girls are more accommodating
Research conducted in the United States at the University of Missouri led by Professor Bruce Bartholow helped to understand why some girls are prone to reckless sexual acts under the influence of alcohol.
The answer seemed to be obvious: alcohol reduces mental capacity. Hence - and nonsense. However, experiments have refuted this.
The professor and his colleagues scanned the brains of drunken and sober volunteers who were solving the same problem with a lot of traps. And we looked at which zones and how they react to errors. It was then that the difference became clear.
The sober and the drunk were equally well aware that they were making a mistake. Both in those and in others, the brain sent appropriate alarm signals. But in sober people the brain responded to them. And drunk - ignored. Like strangers knocking on the door of a neighboring apartment.
“Alcohol does not reduce the ability to recognize mistakes,” Bartolow comments on the results of the experiments. - It changes the attitude towards the fact that you make these mistakes. Alcohol doesn't make us behave badly. It dulls feelings of responsibility and guilt by inhibiting activity in areas that usually cause anxiety. Self-control is lost. The feeling of anxiety disappears.
In other words, we understand: something is going wrong, in the wrong direction, but we absolutely do not care about it. With regard to girls, this blissful state often ends with contacts from which, when sober, they may have refrained. In order not to be tormented by the question "How could I ?!"
They love to drink. This can be used. Scientific fact.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY
