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Scientists watching movies at home makes you want to drink
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Home movies triggers in people the desire to drink alcohol. This conclusion was recently made by scientists from the United States of America, decided to hold a small, but quite detailed experiment of this vector. The participants in the experiments were determined by the audience of 160 people, most of which consisted of men, the smaller, which is logical, of women aged from eighteen to thirty-five years.
Voluntary respondents participating in the experiment, were engaged in home viewing of various films, somehow parrying the man's attitude to alcohol. In some films the respondents saw the love for alcohol, the rest on the contrary has provoked the people's rejection of the use of intoxicating drink.
As it turned out, men are not indifferent to the display characters and images which they embody, while their desire to drink alcohol is the norm. Representatives of the fair sex on the contrary also strongly drawn to the use of intoxicating drinks, if while watching the movie this product was advertised with a positive context.
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Source: globalscience.ru