Here's another article about the recent Beer Goggles study that was awarded this year's Ignoble Prize. It's actually a pretty interesting study. The issue is *not* that the higher your blood alcohol content is the more attractive you think your drinking partner is; that was a given before the experiment. :-)
It's that the experiment showed that the higher your blood alcohol content is, the more attractive you think YOU are. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2013/09/20/ignobels\ -2013-beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beer-holder/ <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2013/09/20/ignobel\ s-2013-beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beer-holder/> Now extrapolate that finding to *other* substances or practices that can affect the human brain. Like meditation. If budding (pre-fully-developed Narcissistic Personality Disorder) narcissists find their way to meditation practices that activate those same "Hey! I'm hot!" parts of the brain that alcohol does, are those mediation practices good for them in the long run?
