
Nature & Nurture #45: Dr. Edward Slingerland - The History of Alcohol
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Is Alcohol a Key Engine for Group Innovation?
Alcohol reduces anxiety and enhancehs mood, which is probably helpful if you are living in a pretty crappy early agricultural village. Alcohol's always been associated with artists and creative types. It actually, by down regulating our prefrontal cortex, it's increasing our ability to think,. To come up with solutions that you can't just get to through brute reasoning, you have to have an insight im there's evidence that alcohol helps with this. And than it aloits enhancing individual creativity yit's also reducing our inhibitions, which means that it's helping with group inundation. The real way to detect lying is taking time out of your day at the beach or going for a walk along the coast
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