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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."
Procrastination is a lot more enjoyable with an empty bladder.
Blood is mostly water. Urine is mostly water as well, so is vodka. Blood is not mostly vodka.
The various fun things that end up in urine are not called urine until they are filtered out by the kidneys.
It is also nothing that you cannot find a pharmacy, that does not mean pharmacies are full of urine. Nothing is called urine until after it gets filtered by the kidneys. Which means blood is not full of urine, it is just full of stuff that may one day become part of urine.
That doesn't exactly specify it was a full bladder that was causing the effect, it might just be urine production that stimulates better decisions.
Or just better hydration. Though I could easily see that the researchers might have also conducted studies to control for that, and the journalist been negligent in mentioning it.
Someone had to do it.
If you're in danger of dozing off, you shouldn't be driving. Doing some trick to prevent you from actually dozing off is putting yourself and everyone else on the road in greater danger. This isn't a binary condition: either fully alert or dead to the world unconscious. You're still more likely to cause an accident, even if you didn't lapse into actual unconsciousness.
"I've done it -- it keeps me fully alert, too!" Uh huh. This is every bit as believable as the drunk who insists they're not too smashed to drive. You feel fully alert. Good for you. Now pull over, take a piss, and then take a nap, resume driving when you actually are fully alert and don't require any tricks to stay awake.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
please stop... you are one of the idiots that makes this site terrible. and If someone were to have a tiny bladder, it would be easier to fill and often be full. So "TBS" is obviously something you don't suffer from.
Most women will make poor decisions then throughout their whole life, since most of them suffer from TBS.
(Tiny Bladder Syndrome)
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