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ATLANTA? A University of Georgia study has discovered that intoxicated people display more angry facial expressions than sober people when shocked with with a high level electricity.

 

Researchers studied 136 male social drinkers between the ages of 18 and 30. The 63 men in the test group were given two orange juice-and-ethanol beverages to bring their blood alcohol concentration to 0.08 percent. The 73 men in the control group were given just orange juice.

 

Both groups reacted similarly to low-level shocks, but higher voltage shocks ignited the fury of the drunks.

 

?Our findings strengthen the notion that alcohol increases the likelihood that certain drinkers, particularly those with the tendency to be angry and to express their anger outwardly, become aggressive when provoked,? study co-author Dominic Parrott says in a news release.