06.15.06
Another benefit of coffee
It makes you more open-minded.
Caffeine has long been known to make the heart beat faster, the muscles work harder and the brain focus better. But a new study suggests that it also makes us more open to persuasion when confronted with a point of view that is logical and well-argued.
At the University of Queensland in Australia, researchers ascertained the positions of 148 people on the subject of voluntary euthanasia, then asked each participant to read a position paper that ran counter to his or her beliefs. Before reading the papers, however, half drank orange juice containing the equivalent jolt of two cups of coffee, and half drank plain orange juice.
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