Subjective Intoxication

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The research indicates a proposal on social pain detection system that evolved due to the extension of the physical pain detection system in the brain that developed earlier in the human history. It examines the effects of objective intoxication and subjective intoxication on both the immediate and the delayed reactions to ostracism.( Hales, Williams & Eckhardt, C2015). The research also discusses more about blood alcohol concentration that brings forth individual differences in the existence of subjective intoxication. It has also examined how alcohol and the associated feelings of intoxication affect the responses top ostracism. Therefore, this research gives knowledge on whether exclusion increases the desire to think or decreases the desire …show more content…

Consumption of different amounts of alcohol would have interfered with the brain communication pathways thus affecting the way the brain works hence giving different results among the participants depending on their level of alcohol consumption. This is because the participants who could have consumed more alcohol would have some challenges in thinking clearly and affect their brain coordination. The possibility was that in would make the participants think unclearly and unable to move with their coordination. It is also possible that other correlated variables account for the relationship between subjective intoxication and need and mood levels. However, the research regarded this as unlikely because the effects of subjective intoxication differed based on the ostracism condition, to which the participants were randomly assigned (Bastian & Haslam2010). Also, the analysis adopted controlled for a broad range of variables that could plausibly explain relationships between alcohol consumption and general well-being among the individuals. However, the research acknowledges, that any list of control variables will necessarily be non-exhaustive. Since this study did not control for social anxiety or need to belong: Two individual differences that are related to drinking behavior have sharply implications in the …show more content…

Also, the researchers would be able to learn more about the different effects of the subjective intoxication based on various ostracism conditions and their mood

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