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Hooray for juice! Though I'm still skeptical that the drinks actually matter; if you enclose people in a limited-senses environment (like a bar where the t.v. i
by Jach 16y ago
Hooray for juice! Though I'm still skeptical that the drinks actually matter; if you enclose people in a limited-senses environment (like a bar where the t.v. is muted and doesn't have anything interesting on anyway) for long enough they're going to start talking to each other and entertaining themselves that way. Do you know of any studies into this? It's fun to speculate about at least.
> All these things apply to cigarettes too, which goes some way to explaining their tenacious grip on some social groups despite their lack of tangible benefits, (ie. they dont get you high)
I thought that was better explained primarily by the addictiveness of cigarettes and then by the social outcasting of smokers forcing them to band together.
- JonnieCache 16y agoThere are tonnes of studies into the effects of physical and social context on alcohol intoxication. As you might expect, a lot of it is all in the mind (or in the bar.) Here's just one: http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2000-16402-007 http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2... On the smoking thing, yeah definitely the reasons you mentioned are by far the most important. However I still think it's too often overlooked that a lot of people are effectively using them as "comfort blankets."
- JonnieCache 16y agoThe above link appears to do some horrible cookie checking whereby you can only read the abstract two or three times before it punts you to a shopping cart page without even an apology. Bloody academic mafia. Out of spite, here's a link to the whole paper: http://dionysus.psych.wisc.edu/Lit/Articles/WallA2000a.pdf http://dionysus.psych.wisc.edu/Lit/Articles/WallA2000a.pdf