Drinking to Cope, Human Brains Shrank, High Heels History
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why having a “drink to cope” doesn’t work; why human brains shrunk 3,000 years ago; and high heel history.
Having a "drink to cope" doesn't actually work, and can even make you feel worse by Steffie Drucker
- One year on: Unhealthy weight gains, increased drinking reported by Americans coping with pandemic stress. (2021, March 11). One year on: Unhealthy weight gains, increased drinking reported by Americans coping with pandemic stress. Https://Www.apa.org. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/03/one-year-pandemic-stress
- “Drinking To Cope” Doesn’t Work, Even When We Believe That It Does. (2021, October 20). Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/10/20/drinking-to-cope-doesnt-work-even-when-we-believe-that-it-does/
- Wycoff, A. M., Carpenter, R. W., Hepp, J., Piasecki, T. M., & Trull, T. J. (2021). Real-time reports of drinking to cope: Associations with subjective relief from alcohol and changes in negative affect. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(6), 641–650. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000684
Human brains shrunk 3,000 years ago, and it may be due to the rise of collective intelligence by Grant Currin
- When and why did human brains decrease in size 3,000 years ago? New study may have found clues within ants. (2021, October 22). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/932004
- DeSilva, J. M., Traniello, J. F. A., Claxton, A. G., & Fannin, L. D. (2021). When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.742639
High Heels Were Originally Meant for Men by Reuben Westmaas originally published July 9, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/high-heels-were-originally-meant-for-men-persuasiv
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about why having a drink to cope can actually make you feel worse, |
| 0:12.0 | why human brains shrunk 3,000 years ago, |
| 0:15.5 | and the strange history of high heels. |
| 0:18.1 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:21.5 | Here's a familiar scene. You've had a tough day, so you pull yourself a drink to unwind. |
| 0:27.0 | But a bit of booze to take the edge off can quickly turn into a daily habit when you're stressed. |
| 0:34.0 | When that stress is prolonged, like, I don't know, nearly two years into a global pandemic, |
| 0:40.5 | it can become downright dependence. |
| 0:43.0 | And it really can become that. |
| 0:45.0 | Nearly one in four Americans |
| 0:48.0 | reported drinking more alcohol |
| 0:50.0 | to cope with their stress at the COVID-19 pandemic's one year mark. |
| 0:55.0 | So, the urge to drink when you're stressed is common, |
| 0:59.0 | but a new study shows that that just doesn't work. |
| 1:03.2 | In fact, drinking to cope can actually leave you feeling worse. |
| 1:08.2 | Scientists at the University of Missouri recruited 110 participants |
| 1:12.4 | who reported drinking at least once a week. |
| 1:15.8 | Almost half had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, a mental illness that makes |
| 1:20.8 | it more difficult to manage emotions and is linked to drinking problems. |
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