Written by Proxima Centauri
The Spring Festival is approaching, whether it is a gift box for visiting relatives and friends or a table for big fish and meat, wine seems to be an unavoidable protagonist. According to the incomplete statistics of the editor, relatives and friends around will appear after getting drunk: singing, comparing hearts to colleagues, counting traffic lights on the road, laughing, crying with sorrow, recalling the past and other kinds of confusing behaviors.
It can be said that a thousand drunkenness has a thousand outrageous.
This is just the outrageous version of the primary version (Photo/Douban)
In terms of chemical nature, ethanol mainly acts as a sedative effect on the central nervous system. Those excited and even manic behaviors after drinking alcohol are the opposite of the effect of ethanol itself. How can this be explained?
Scientists have done a series of experiments to explore people's drunken behavior, and have come to a somewhat counterintuitive conclusion - people's expectations before drinking alcohol will obviously affect the state after drunkenness. In other words, sometimes, you just feel like you're drunk.
Experiments do this. The researchers prepared three cocktails, high, low and non-alcoholic, and the drinkers who participated in the test did not know which one they were getting. They were told before the test that the three cocktails had been seasoned and tasted the same at different degrees.
Blind box cocktails, you don't know if you're drinking or not. (Photo/unsplash)
After drinking alcohol, the participants were paired up and entered the behavior test session. The specific task is to make a special mashed potato for your teammates, that is, to add chili sauce and table salt to the mashed potatoes, and then let your teammates eat it.
Unsurprisingly, some of the participants began to do whatever they wanted, concocting spicy mashed potatoes and saying they felt like they had drunk a high-volume cocktail! However, some of the people who thought they drank high were only given non-alcoholic beverages. There were also participants who did drink a high number of alcohols, and felt that they were not drunk, but behaved quite rationally.
"I'm not drunk, I'm sober!" (Photo: pixabay)
Another similar experiment was to ask test subjects to create an ad for a given drink after drinking, such as writing a slogan or curating a short video. The results are similar, with people who think they're drunk creating more interesting and creative ads.
"I've gotten drunk and I've gotten stronger!" (Photo: pixabay)
In many cases, you just induce yourself into a state where you think you're "drunk," even if you're not drunk yourself. After reading the next experiment, you will find that even the degree of drunkenness is sometimes closely related to the expectations of drinkers.
Is it true that Red Bull paired with vodka produces a double kill? It doesn't matter, because as long as you think it's true, it can be true.
"Red Bull is wine, the more you drink, the more you have?" (Do not try it lightly) figure/bing
The researchers asked participants to drink three wines with the same ingredients but different labels: one with Red Bull-Vodka, Vodka, and juice labels. After that, they need to complete a balloon gambling mini-game on the computer, the rule is to tap the mouse to blow the balloon, the larger the balloon, the more bonuses they can get. But if you keep clicking to let the balloon blow, you won't get anything. The results showed that not all people who drank Red Bull Vodka blew the balloon bigger. Only those who had heard of the power of Red Bull + Vodka before the test were more likely to be greedy on the edge of danger.
In a sense, what people need may not be wine, but a bottle. It doesn't matter what's inside.
The anticipation of drinking alcohol affects drunken behavior, putting the drinker in a superposition of "both drunk and not drunk", which may be Schrödinger's wine?
It sounds like some kind of metaphysics, but it's essentially similar to the placebo effect that psychology talks about.
The so-called placebo effect refers to the patient's self-perception that he has taken the drug and reports that his symptoms have decreased during the drug test. But in fact, he took the sugar pills from the control group. One explanation for the placebo effect is that when a patient takes a placebo, certain areas of the brain are actively activated, so subjective feelings about symptoms are weakened.
Magical little sugar pills! (Photo: Wikipedia)
However, its effect is limited to regulating symptoms and cannot treat diseases. A quote from a doctor can explain this matter very well -
"Placebo does not lower blood lipids, nor does it shrink the tumor. But it can make patients feel better about themselves. ”
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At this point, it is important to emphasize one thing. The conclusion about drinking expectations does not hold up, if someone tells you when persuading you to drink: "Whether you are drunk or not depends on the mentality, as long as you feel that you are not drunk, you can always drink!" "Don't fall into this logical trap.
After alcohol enters the stomach, it will soon enter the bloodstream. It will rush straight to the brain after 5 minutes and start working in 10 minutes, affecting the central nervous system. According to the increase in the concentration of alcohol in the blood, people will go through the following stages -
In the first stage, the response is gradually sluggish
In the second stage, the release of dopamine feels relaxed and pleasant
In the third stage, the speech is not clear, the vision is blurred
In the fourth stage, the cerebellum does not work to support the wall to walk
Stage Five... Do you still dare to drink?
On the occasion of the Spring Festival, after drinking only half a glass of beer, I began to be unresponsive, and I wrote this article, hoping to tell you that the joy of the party does not come from alcohol, and there is more than one thing that can make people secrete dopamine. The so-called drinking pursuit is nothing more than a state, don't buy drunk for pleasure.
*Minors are not allowed to drink alcohol!! (Serious words cannot be in italics!) ）