Drunk fights are a typical occurrence at some bars--but why does drinking make us more likely to fight? Kate Shaw over at Ars Technica gives us a good example of a typical confrontation:
If you’ve ever had one (or ten) too many drinks at a bar, you’re probably familiar with this scenario: a drunk guy stumbles past you, spills a beer all over you, and you get angry. You’re convinced he did it on purpose, and you start fuming.
from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin found that this "thinking he did it on purpose" is because alcohol makes you likely to interpret someone's actions as intentional rather than accidental. In a bar situation, this can translate to a conviction that an offending act was aimed specifically at you--great, so alcohol essentially brings out the paranoid narcissist in all of us. The researchers studied a group of unwitting "taste ...
