Does coffee make you more open to suggestions?
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 at
12:04 am
According to a new study by researchers of University of Queensland (Australia), caffeine makes you more susceptible to suggestion. Test subjects who were given a dose of caffeine, and then provided with a position paper, understood and remembered the counter-arguments better and were more in agreement with those arguments.
The study further concludes that caffeine makes coffee drinkers pay better attention to well-made arguments, and that it increases peoples’ ability to correctly evaluate the merits of a particular argument.
Now we know why they serve coffee in meetings!
[ via LA TIMES ]
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