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Outroverse's avatar

It seems to me that the quoted point about alcohol ignores some well established pharmacological effects. "It's all in her expectations" doesn't cut any ice when we provoke a rage reaction from a cat by electrically stimulating its hypothalamus.

That being said, I do believe the generalized point stands well enough on its own; that social expectations and symbols of bad behavior are largely at work when determining why some behavior is deemed inappropriate even when it doesn't quite need to be.

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Did you see this? It could be that people knew which kind of beer they were drinking, but I think that there are some genuine effects. "Drinking alcohol made people of both genders more likely to recognize happy faces, exhibit emotional empathy, and find sexually explicit pictures more pleasant…with this last effect being more marked for women than men. Note that the study did not find changes in sexual arousal. " That is from the Forbes article, pick your source: https://www.google.com/sear...

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