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Full Bladder Improves Decision Making
anymouse writes "What should you do when you really, REALLY have to 'go'? Make important life decisions, maybe. Controlling your bladder makes you better at controlling yourself when making decisions about your future, too, according to a study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science."
I'm currently hospitalized for a longer period of time ( earlier post regarding it ) and I have a catherer, which also takes the urine immediately from the body. What should I do as I can't get a full bladder? On a side note, it's been great for playing MMO's as there's no need to get up to toilet...
Also increases the urine that's not taken out of your bloodstream.
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and, if you keep it too much, the urine in your bladder may even get pushed back into your bloodstream and outright poison you.
great researches come out, from the fine institutions of our scientific establishment, sometimes
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I have anecdotal evidence that exactly the opposite is true. And no, I would prefer not to say any more about this thank you very much.
Procrastination is a lot more enjoyable with an empty bladder.
"You seem to make better decisions when you have a full bladder," Tuk says. So maybe you should drink a bottle of water before making a decision about your stock portfolio, for example.
You read this article, remembered what it said, and then drank 5 cups of water 40 mins before a stock choice. Your clearly the kind of person who needs help dealing with high-impulse choices
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Making ass of itself since 1507...
So, do you want to use the bathroom or not? Take your time with this decision, we don't want you to take a rash decision on this one.
...going to the supermarket with a full bladder was the quickest, cheapest, most productive shopping trip I ever had.
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I've been going to the doctor with a family member often and they were constantly taking his blood pressure. So I've been curious about the things that affect blood pressure and according one nurse if you have a full bladder your blood pressure will go up significantly. (Couldn't quickly confirm via google, could a slashdot MD confirm or refute?)
I wonder if the increase in blood pressure do to holding it gives your brain more blood so it functions better. I wonder if there is a way to control the experiment for the blood pressure difference.
TODO create witty sig.
No wonder I get peed off making desicions.
While today modern medicine will (hopefully) prevent a bladder infection from becoming fatal, it's still nothing to play around with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
I say piss on it!
Some nominate this research.
It's also damn near impossible to fall asleep when you have to piss.
Drink lots of water on road trips, to the point you more or less constantly have to go, and you will never doze off.
Departments of Psychology at universities. Open any psychology journal and you'll find arguments over methods not
theory.
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Darl McBride, Aaron Barr and other people who are routinely full of shit make bad decisions on a daily basis.
I call shenanigans.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Should we conclude that drinking more beer leads to better decision making?
. . . about how MMO players wearing "Depends" are just putting themselves off their game.
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Holding your bladder can also be bad for you. Women, for instance, can have serious issues holding they're bladder too long. OTOH, one life decision will be made for you: going to the hospital and picking up some antibiotics.
Controlling your bladder makes you better at controlling yourself
Urine control.
Maybe they could use this to treat ADD/ADHD? Urine Therapy
Perhaps this could be used as a form of psycho analysis? Urine my head.
Or, how about conflict resolution? Urine my face
But I find myself searching for a bag of potato chips after firing up a fattie.. Actually the old lady does the searching for me. I don't feel like getting up.
Full Bladder Improves Decision Making
The obvious result is that your decision is to go to the restroom.
How would you rate the usefulness of having to pee versus, say, playing Go? I'm pretty sure teaching yourself to think carefully about why to do something (i.e. impact, value, future plans) and consider alternative courses of action (i.e. shit that could happen in response, and how you're going to handle that variation) is going to improve the decisions you make more than, say, teaching yourself not to piss in your pants after a 44oz cocacola.
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Geewizzz. Someone must have leaked that story. With all that psychology It must be going to the head.
No shit.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
I was going to nominate this for an Ig® Nobel Prize, but then I realized that the study was conducted by psychologists and knew it would be disqualified since psychological studies aren't really science.
The study offered some money now or more money later - I would pick the second option, otherwise I might need to wait for someone to go get the cash and hand it to me. Perhaps I would need to sign a receipt as well. All while I really really need to go for a piss.
I think a full bladder makes you postpone less urgent things, it doesn't necessarily improve your decision making quality.
Would be interesting to see the results of a second control group: With a full bladder, and that is offered more money now or less money later.
I served as the chairman of a not-for-profit board for a while. And our meetings just seem to be interminable.
Finally, I offered to be the permanent refreshment-bringer. I purchased only spicy or salty snacks, and only caffeinated beverages -- actually, just a tiny non-zero number of non-caffeinated ones to prevent moaning from the "I can't have caffeine" board member.
My idea wasn't to ensure good decisions, but just that something got decided and we didn't sit around all night trying to redirect back to the subject at hand.
I am not a crackpot.
Remember 4th grade slumber parties when you put your sleeping friend's hand in a bowl of warm water, to see if the oceans will spill over from dreamland ?
When my bladder is full, I suddenly decide to pee.
I've worked with some folks in my career who should have been pissed upon.
"Ah, Donald Trump! I've been expecting you! You want to make a deal? Well, I'm a gonna whip it out, and then you can try to deal with this .. ."
On the other hand, a lot of the time that I've been working with certain executives . . . I think that their top skill is doing sword fights down at the pisser.
Hmmn . . . time to update my skills profile . . . "En Garde!"
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The best way (for males) to make decisions is when you blow your load either during sex or while masturbating. Right after orgasm suddenly everything becomes so clear because of sharp increase in dopamine. You let go of your inhibitions, fear, ego and able to formulate completely rational thoughts. But you need to make decisions really fast because the optimism fades away really quickly. I'd say it's 40 seconds to 2 minutes max.
For example, they could choose to receive either $16 tomorrow or $30 in 35 days.
The researchers found that the people with full bladders were better at holding out for the larger reward later.
The researchers probably have never filled out a rebate card when buying a PC. If they had, they would have realized that the delayed "reward" may never show up, in 35 days or in 350 days. And hey'd be stuck with having paid in full for an overpriced PC with "our chump of the month" sign hung around their neck.
This news really pisses me off!!!
Can slashdot ban tinyUrl style shortened urls please?
Divide a cake by zero. Is it still a cake?
The Ghost of Tycho Brahe just read this and gave a the finger to the summary, the article, and the people studying this.
"You guys, you just don't know what you're messing with here"
Last words of Tycho Brahe:
"Jeg har brug for at tisse så meget, at mine tænder er flydende!"
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BMO
It's damn near impossible to piss when you're on morphine, even if you're also on an IV, so always remember to use the bathroom before the car accident.
No. If you're on /. you should know better and be able to figure out how to use preview on shortened URLs.
is there anything it can't do.
I just know I'd end up deciding all over myself.
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live." - M.J. A
And this is why I am pissing my life away.
The positive effects of cutting oneself on cognition? All physical discomforts create a slight boost in adrenaline which increases short-term memory (thereby increasing cognitive functions). But the same effects can be achieved with simple discipline in one's lifestyle. 3 meals a day without snacks means mild starvation between meals and yet not going so long without food that low blood sugar levels drop too low. Similar benefits arise from other habits associated with well-structured life. While I have no doubts that the researchers in question were looking to completely understand the mechanisms in the body through which this process occurs, I do take issue with the way the slashdot presented the results of the research. It wouldn't take a study to deduce that mild discomfort causes improvement in performance. Any study would be after the question "how does that happen". Yet in another display of sensationalism, this editor turned into a headline claiming that the study was trying to see "whether it would happen?"
And there BEER, for when you need to make a decision in a hurry.
--- Always remember. 99.36% of all statistics are inaccurate.
After two cups of coffee in the morning, I couldn't think straight when I got to work--until I'd visited the men's room to take a leak.
I decided to read this story after returning from the restroom. I'm sure I wouldn't have read this otherwise.
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I better drink 3 or 5 beers very fast. Then I'll make the best decision that will affect my long term future.
My secret weapon in the music competitions of my youth was to forgo visiting the restroom until after the performance. I felt having to pee gave me the edge I needed.
Just keep swimming.
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Beer really makes me have to pee...so I should down a six pack and not pee before making big decisions?
holding it increases the chances of a number of medical problems, including gout and cancer
when you gotta go you gotta go
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APK
Don't be too polite, and go if you have to!
"According to Kepler's first hand account, Tycho had refused to leave the banquet to relieve himself because it would have been a breach of etiquette.[20][21] After he had returned home he was no longer able to urinate, except, eventually, in very small quantities and with excruciating pain. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
Never make any important decisions or initiate any important activities when you have a full bowel or bladder. Mark my words.
I have no idea what kind of moron uses those idiotic shortened urls for normal things, but go here to get the real url. Alternatively, go here for a parody.
Or, maybe, with a full bladder, the participants would rather get out of and go to the bathroom rather than wait around to get their $16. And maybe with an empty bladder they might have thought the extra $14 wasn't worth coming back for 35 days later. But I dunno, I'm not a researcher.
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If I urninate all over this utterly stupid article and the utterly stupid paper it is based on, does my decision making then start out good but deteriorate as my bladder empties? Curious.
Isn't a bit like scrum meetings in agile development where you have to stand uncomfortable but it get quick decisions. Maybe you should drink lots of water before scrum meetings.
I have a full bladder right now and I'm sitting here reading slashdot so I call BS on this article's conclusions!
I wonder if she did a Frequentist or a Bayesian calculation from the test statistic. If she did do the latter, her hypothesis would've been "People are smarter when they have to pee". She would have needed a prior on that hypothesis. Experience across a spectrum of human interaction dictates that any hypothesis starting with "People are smart", would have an extremely narrow Lorentzian prior centered around 0.0000000001.
well usually I'm in the third person..
the only thing I've ever found that allows me to mobilise my 'self' is Ketamine but I expect PCP and DXM can do that too.
I've never slipped into the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th or any other kind of self when needing the toilet.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Yeah but why should I have to? Just post the actual URL.
Divide a cake by zero. Is it still a cake?
Once in a while I use that service, my issue is that it's a pain in the ass and that I usually don't bother clicking through tinyurls (etc)
Divide a cake by zero. Is it still a cake?
I'll never look at that thing the same.
That guy looks like he's really gotta go.
so far lots of humorous comments, damn I'd hate to see psychology studies for full colon. Reminds me I did a presentation on the WCS "space toilet" recently for the Traveling Space Museum. Out of curiousity for more info, I found a Hamilton Standard 1973 report, "Waste collection subsystem development"
Abstract: Engineering studies, design activity and testing associated with the development of a waste
collection system to accommodate both male and female crewmembers in a space environment are reported.
http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19730019213
ok so I'm going offtopic but seems to be a real pisser just to make a toilet for a spaceship.
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Keep gobbling up the troll bait, Petey. I know you're fat, but damn! At some point it seems like you'd get full....
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Funny how you were modded down for the troll that you clearly are.
You even look like one...fat and hairy (except for on your head).
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I couldn't RTFA. WAY too many unrelated other words littered on the web page. Can someone sum it up for me in 4 words or less? Thanks a bunch.
Wanna go back to my place? ..before you decide, why don't you go use the restroom? I'll be right here when you're ready to make up your mind.
There's a reason why nature makes you uncomfortable when you have a full bladder... and the reason is that it wants to motivate you to get rid of the toxins ASAP.
So I don't know that this kind of article is a public service.
Participants were asked to make eight choices; each was between receiving a small, but immediate, reward and a larger, but delayed, reward. For example, they could choose to receive either $16 tomorrow or $30 in 35 days.
I have been in a lot of business deals over the years and I will tell you this: Delayed reward is not all it's cracked up to be. Very often taking the immediate reward is actually the much, much better choice. You never know what can happen and if there is any chance at all that you could lose the whole reward by delaying it, then you probably will.
Money in the hand is worth more than potential money in the future.
It's somewhat counterintuitive, especially to intelligent people but I have seen the results many times and can tell you from experience, take the immediate reward every time.
Can slashdot ban tinyUrl style shortened urls please?
You mean the tiny url that expanded to http://gw001.dyndns-blog.com/
Would that have helped?
That site then does the redirection.
.. For those who are full of shit...
Did they take that into account? Also, what would constitute as a good decision, what as a bad one and why? The article does not tell.
ahhh write that cable now, or go have a leak.
Ooops, they are one and the same.
Needing to pee makes me want to masturbate. Three indecent exposure convictions and an entry in the sex offenders' register later... it hasn't changed.
Hint: any tinyurl address on slashdot will lead to the goatse guy. There is no reason to use them here, all they are useful for is making print publications readable, online they're pointless.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
So wait, I should only make decisions when I have a full bladder?? More coffee please! Oh and to make it more convenient, instead of leaving my desk to hit the head, I'll just use the trash can, I'll be so much more productive!
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Oh piss on it!
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Simple rule: Change the URL to preview.tinyurl.com. Other URLs have similar preview services. If it points to another URL shortener or something obscure, don't click it. Also don't let them catch you by making an apparently normal post linking to something you already recognize, like one nearly did to me this morning ;)
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Nuff said.
...what the hell?
APK must really be getting desperate for people to troll/stalk, did this really start over a typo?!
I actually made the first post in the threat that he references above. Someone had commented on a particular story and how it was going to turn into a MAC vs. PC war in x number of comments. Since I had recently seen some of the stupid shit that APK has been throwing out there regarding hosts files and his general inability to hold a civil conversation, I thought it would be funny to make a comment about how he was going to start a war about hosts files along with the MAC vs. PC, since that's all he seems capable of discussing (and I use that term loosely). Or, to summarize the story, I threw out a bucket of troll chum and he took the bait just like I hoped he would.
I take it you've had run ins with the douche bag, as well? It seems he's uniformly hated no matter where he goes.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2015772&cid=35358632
APK
P.S.=> StenchWarrior: Yes - You sure "talk a big game", but when it comes to backing up YOUR b.s.? You run... lol! apk
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2015772&cid=35358632
APK
P.S.=> StenchWarrior: Yes - You sure "talk a big game", but when it comes to backing up YOUR b.s.? You run... lol! apk
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2015772&cid=35358632
APK
P.S.=> StenchWarrior: Yes - You sure "talk a big game", but when it comes to backing up YOUR b.s.? You run... lol! apk
"Since I had recently seen some of the stupid shit that APK has been throwing out there regarding hosts files and his general inability to hold a civil conversation, I thought it would be funny to make a comment about how he was going to start a war about hosts files along with the MAC vs. PC, since that's all he seems capable of discussing (and I use that term loosely)." - by Stenchwarrior (1335051) on Wednesday March 02, @11:39AM (#35357978)
Funny: I am NOT the one running from a discussion as you are here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2015772&cid=35358632
After you stated how I manage a hosts file is bad, well... be specific there then! I am willing to discuss it, and you are not (because you cannot backup your trolling b.s., & if you try to? I will just annihilate you with facts, as I always do, troll!)
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"Or, to summarize the story, I threw out a bucket of troll chum and he took the bait just like I hoped he would." - by Stenchwarrior (1335051) on Wednesday March 02, @11:39AM (#35357978)
Evidence you're nothing but a worthless troll... quoted right from you no less!
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"I take it you've had run ins with the douche bag, as well? It seems he's uniformly hated no matter where he goes." - by Stenchwarrior (1335051) on Wednesday March 02, @11:39AM (#35357978)
LOL, hated? Hated by trolls like yourself that seem to think it's *OK* to troll others, but not to be re-trolled back... & ALL I AM DOING is showing others how you RUN when you are confronted on your utter trolling b.s.!
APK
P.S.=> Making a fool like you look stupid? Man... it's just "too, Too, TOO EASY... just '2EZ'"... apk
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