After a night of heavy drinking, John still appears sober while his friends are intoxicated. It is because John has likely developed behavioral tolerance.
What is behavioral tolerance?
- Behavioral tolerance is the increased tolerance to a particular drug and decreased efficiency of the drug with excess use of that particular drug over the time.
- If one is an alcohol addict and consume a particular amount of alcohol then over the period of time, he would develop learned behavioral tolerance and that amount of alcohol won't make him feel intoxicated. He would have to increase the amount of alcohol.
Thus, after a night of heavy drinking, John still appears sober while his friends are intoxicated because John has likely developed behavioral tolerance.
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