Swimming in syrup and fake drunk confidence

If you replace the water in a swimming pool with syrup and convince some of your colleagues to swim in it, will they swim slower or faster?

Drunk people find others and themselves more attractive. However, do people tricked into believing they are drunk also find themselves more attractive?

In this episode, Lu quizzes Tirth on his science knowledge and the two discuss how fast humans swim in syrup and how to gain confidence by tricking yourself into thinking you are drunk.

Timestamps:

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:08 Tirth takes a science trivia quiz
• 11:33 Swimming study
• 21:18 Fake drunk study
• 33:08 What did you learn today, outro

Article links:

• Gettelfinger & Cussler, 2004. Will humans swim faster or slower in syrup? AIChE Journal. https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aic.10389

• Begue et al., 2012. ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder’: People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive. British Journal of Psychology. https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.2044-8295.2012.02114.x

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