Can I buy you a drink? Genetics may determine sensitivity to other people's drinking behavior
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 14:07
in Psychology & Sociology
Your friend walks into a bar to meet you for happy hour. He sidles up to the bar and orders a drink - does that make you more likely to get a drink yourself? According to new findings reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, genetics may determine the extent to which you are influenced by social drinking cues - signals such as advertisements, drinks placed on a bar, and seeing other people around you drinking.