{"id":2269,"date":"2013-04-21T11:59:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2013-04-21T11:59:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T15:59:39","slug":"new-study-on-tylenol-and-its-effect-on-moral-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2013\/04\/21\/new-study-on-tylenol-and-its-effect-on-moral-judgement","title":{"rendered":"New Study on Tylenol and Its Effect on Moral Judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Hamblin, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2013\/04\/whats-tylenol-doing-to-our-minds\/275101\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among people who took the placebo pill, those who wrote about existential anxiety set much higher bail ($450) [for prostitution] than those who wrote about the dentist ($300). But if they took Tylenol and wrote existentially, that sense of moral judgement seemed to be blunted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was a tiny sample size but shows interesting (and oddly unsurprising) results. The study of the mental effects of\u00a0non-psychoactive\u00a0drugs is so often overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>And, as commenter Tim_Sims says, &#8220;It&#8217;s only a matter of time til our teenagers are sitting around a dimly lit basement, indulging in the devil pill Tylenol and feeling marginally less anxious about existential fears.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Hamblin, for The Atlantic: Among people who took the placebo pill, those who wrote about existential anxiety set much higher bail ($450) [for prostitution] than those who wrote about the dentist ($300). But if they took Tylenol and wrote existentially, that sense of moral judgement seemed to be blunted. There was a tiny sample [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111,587],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p123kB-AB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}