People's Beliefs on Drunk Driving May Change When They're Drunk

Researchers at the University of Missouri analyzed 82 young adults and compared their willingness and attitudes toward drunk driving when sober and after drinking moderate amounts of alcohol. They found that “although people may know that drinking and driving is a bad idea, those sober beliefs may go out the window after a few drinks.”

According to study author and associate professor of psychological sciences Denis McCarthy, “…there are bigger effects on the descending limb of the BrAC (breath alcohol concentration) curve, which is important because that’s when people are typically driving home. People on the way down [the BrAC curve] later in the evening are worse judges of how impaired they are, and they’re more impaired than they think.”

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