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Good Kids Have Less Sex? #behavior #psychology #study

7 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube video commentary referencing a Psychology Today study linking abstention from alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis with lower risk-taking behaviors and potentially reduced initiation of social or romantic encounters. The speaker frames this as an observational pattern rather than causal advice.

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Now, being called a geek in school might have longer term effects than we thought. Well, I was a geek in school as well too. So here's another fascinating detail and I'm actually going to add this study here so you can see it. You are on YouTube. You can see this in the study in Psychology Today. So what's fascinating about this is that people who don't drink alcohol, don't smoke and don't use cannabis or marijuana were more likely to be. Now that doesn't mean you should start drinking, but it shows a pattern that these individual tend to have lower risk taking behaviors, which also mean they might be less inclined to initiate social or romantic encounters.