And I’ll walk until I’ve found someone who loves me not in vain
Eighty per cent of adults in the US and the UK are moderate users of the psychoactive drug, caffeine.
Of all the effects it has on our minds—enhanced attention, vigilance and cognition—perhaps least known is its tendency to make us more susceptible to persuasion.
This was demonstrated in a study by Pearl Martin and colleagues at the University of Queensland in Australia (Martin et al., 2005). In their experiment they tried to convince participants to change their minds about the controversial issue of voluntary euthanasia.
photo { Charles Brittin, Arrest at Los Angeles Federal Building Protest, 1965 }
