ELI5 : Why are human interactions under the influence of alcohol easier?

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Just wondering why it’s so much more easier to talk to someone in a bar, than a park.

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Imagine getting up, grabbing your chair, and flipping it. Merely by imagining it, you are able to map out the muscles you’d use to do it. You’re able to plot how you’d go about it. You start to prepare yourself to actually do it. You prepare for the action, but are inhibited by a wide variety of factors, including knowledge that flipping your chair for no reason would be a very silly thing to do.

In very simple terms, alcohol doesn’t interfere without ability to think about doing things nearly as much as it interferes with the ability of thoughts to inhibit the actions you are considering. One of the more pleasant effects of this is that it makes all of the worries you have when you are talking to others less likely to stop you from following through with talking to others.

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