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January 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — People who lack the ability
to consider the future consequences of their current actions are more
likely to be aggressive when they’re drunk, a new study indicates.
“People who focus on the here and now, without thinking about the
impact on the future, are more aggressive than others when they are sober,
but the effect is magnified greatly when they’re drunk,” study author Brad
Bushman, a professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State
University, said in a university news release.
“If you carefully consider the consequences of your actions, it is
unlikely getting drunk is going to make you any more aggressive than you
usually are,” he added.
The study included 495 adults with an average age of 23 who were social
drinkers. They were given a test to determine their ability to think about
the future impact of their current actions.
The participants then received either mixed drinks with a 1:5 ratio of
alcohol/orange juice (alcohol group) or drinks that had orange juice with
a tiny amount of alcohol (placebo group).
Aggression in both groups was assessed using computer-based speed
reaction tests in which the participants believed they were competing
against other people. The winner gave a harmless, but somewhat painful
electric shock, to the loser. The winner determined the length and
intensity of the shock.
There were no actual opponents. The researchers controlled the outcomes
and increased the intensity and length of the electric shocks received by
the participants to assess their level of retaliation.
“The less people thought about the future, the more likely they were to
retaliate, but especially when they were drunk. People who were
present-focused and drunk shocked their opponents longer and harder than
anyone else in the study,” Bushman said.
“Alcohol didn’t have much effect on the aggressiveness of people who
were future-focused,” he added.
Men were more aggressive than women overall, but members of both
genders who were “here and now” focused grew progressively more
retaliatory when intoxicated.
The study appears online and in a future print issue of the Journal
of Experimental Social Psychology.
More information
The U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism offers an
overview of alcohol and your health.
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