I gotta make this post because I would try to satisfy the wonder myself but I haven't unpacked my computer in the move yet :
I wonder if there are any studies that attempt to evaluate caffeine's effect on pain tolerance and/or mental fortitude, if there is one
I do research adjacent to this (sports stuff) and have seen tons of them in passing! I just dug for a second and here's 2 that seem like good starting points?
"Athletes may improve their resistance training by acute ingestion of caffeine."
https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0b013e31818219cb
"[Caffeine] ingestion improved [cycling] performance and psychological responses in mentally fatigued cyclists, despite the unaltered [prefrontal cortex] activation."
ah thank you, this is definitely adjacent and overlapping stuff. I found another one the other day that was also adjacent that showed similar results wrt resistance to boredom, distraction, etc while performing non-intellectual repeatable tasks while sleep deprived. fascinating stuff and that study appeared to be doing it on the context of military sleep readiness doctrines
ah yeah unfortunately military research does produce useful findings sometimes! hope you find more answers!
