Vixe Orfinho,
"apolineo macho digno de ser levado ao leito para os devidos floreios e jogos
gozosos."
Já tomou muito maracujá hoje hein?
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From: Ørf
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:31 AM
Subject: [becodalama] info sabida e consabida...
...que esses eternos descobridores do obvio - ululante? -, os tais
especialistas em 'mente' teimam em dizer como grande novidade: tome umas
lapadas de cana que uma mujer feia como um trubufu fica mais bunitinha...idem
ibidem no caso delas, o mais menos dotado pela natureza dos tais atributos
'belezais' parecerá para a inebriada manceba ou mesmo senhÔra um apolineo macho
digno de ser levado ao leito para os devidos floreios e jogos gozosos.
Orf
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From: Robert Karl Stonjek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/8/14
Subject: [Mind and Brain] News: 'Beer goggles' are real - it's official
To: Psychiatry-Research <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mind and Brain <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
'Beer goggles' are real - it's official
a.. 13 August 2008
b.. From New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.
c.. Peter Aldhous
THE next time you hear someone blaming "beer goggles" for their behaviour,
you may have to believe them. People really do appear more attractive when our
perceptions are changed by drinking alcohol.
There have been few previous attempts to investigate the idea that people
seem to find others more attractive when drunk. In 2003, psychologists at the
University of Glasgow, UK, published a study in which they asked heterosexual
students in campus bars and cafés whether they had been drinking, and then got
them to rate photos of people for attractiveness. While the results supported
the beer goggles theory, another explanation is that regular drinkers tend to
have personality traits that mean they find people more attractive, whether or
not they are under the influence of alcohol at the time.
To resolve the issue, a team of researchers led by Marcus Munafò at the
University of Bristol in the UK conducted a controlled experiment. They
randomly assigned 84 heterosexual students to consume either a non-alcoholic
lime-flavoured drink or an alcoholic beverage with a similar flavour. The exact
amount of alcohol varied according to the individual but was designed to have
an effect equivalent to someone weighing 70 kilograms drinking 250 millitres of
wine - enough to make some students tipsy. After 15 minutes, the students were
shown pictures of people their own age, from both sexes.
Both men and women who had consumed alcohol rated the faces as being more
attractive than did the controls (Alcohol and Alcoholism, DOI:
10.1093/alcalc/agn065). Surprisingly, the effect was not limited to the
opposite sex - volunteers who had drunk alcohol also rated people from their
own sex as more attractive.
This contrasts with the Glaswegian team's results, where there was only an
effect when men were looking at pictures of women, and vice versa. One
explanation, says Munafò, is that alcohol-boosted perceptions of attractiveness
tend to become focused on potential sexual partners in environments conducive
to sexual encounters. He aims to repeat the experiment after showing students a
video of people flirting in a bar, to provide some appropriate social cues.
Munafò also intends to study how the effect varies with the amount of alcohol
consumed - although ethical constraints rule out exploring doses at which our
ability to focus on a face breaks down. "We can look at smaller doses and we
can look at slightly higher doses," he says.
As well as changing perceptions of attractiveness, alcohol also encourages us
to engage in behaviour we would otherwise avoid. In a study by Robert Leeman of
Yale University students reported they were more likely to engage in risky
sexual acts after drinking - which could be due to alcohol lowering our
inhibitions through a direct effect on the brain or by providing a convenient
excuse for such behaviour.
Drugs and Alcohol - Learn more in our comprehensive special report.
Source: NewScientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926694.500-beer-goggles-are-real--its-official.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19926694.500
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Robert Karl Stonjek
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