Two studies in a row justifying my massive coffee habit! First, the story out earlier this week suggesting that coffee can help prevent liver disease... now, another bit of research suggests that coffee will make you a slightly more reasonable person.
As seen in the L.A. Times:
Pearl Martin, the social psychologist who oversaw the experiments, said subjects hopped up on caffeine paid better attention to well-made arguments and thus appeared better disposed to their logic.
But the nation's taste for caffeinated drinks should not make us a nation of dupes. "Our research findings suggest that it increases peoples' ability to correctly evaluate the merits of a particular argument," said Martin, speaking of caffeine's effects.
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