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Alcoholic men can't feel your pain. Here's why
JayRodney Show this Post
11-29-2012, 01:31 PM #1
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Quote:Too much alcohol can ruin a man’s appreciation of irony and block feelings of empathy. And that’s true even when he’s sober, a new study suggests.

Scientists suspect that chronic heavy drinking damages parts of the brain that are crucial to decoding others’ emotions and to processing humor, especially irony.

“Chronic alcohol abuse seems to have effects on the perception and decoding of emotional expressions,” says Simona Amenta, a post-doctoral researcher at Italy’s University of Milano-Bicocca and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan. “It has been associated with … deficits in emotion recognition and verbalization, leading to difficulties in distinguishing and comprehending people’s emotional states.”
Read more: vitals.nbcnews.com

Excuse me, but isn't that the fuckin' point? beerbong.gif drinking.gif
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オタマジャクシ Show this Post
11-29-2012, 04:48 PM #2
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(11-29-2012, 01:31 PM)JayRodney Wrote:  
Quote:Too much alcohol can ruin a man’s appreciation of irony and block feelings of empathy. And that’s true even when he’s sober, a new study suggests.

Scientists suspect that chronic heavy drinking damages parts of the brain that are crucial to decoding others’ emotions and to processing humor, especially irony.

“Chronic alcohol abuse seems to have effects on the perception and decoding of emotional expressions,” says Simona Amenta, a post-doctoral researcher at Italy’s University of Milano-Bicocca and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan. “It has been associated with … deficits in emotion recognition and verbalization, leading to difficulties in distinguishing and comprehending people’s emotional states.”
Read more: vitals.nbcnews.com

Excuse me, but isn't that the fuckin' point? beerbong.gif drinking.gif


Ah, the old glitch or feature conundrum.
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Kreeper Show this Post
11-29-2012, 04:59 PM #3
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Alcoholic men can't feel your pain because they are drunk and just don't give a shit.

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I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children… - Wendell Berry, 1971
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Octo Show this Post
11-29-2012, 05:59 PM #4
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That's about right. chuckle.gif
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JayRodney Show this Post
11-29-2012, 06:03 PM #5
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:whew: I still sort of care, which means I'm still free to drink up beerbong.gif chuckle.gif
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