It says a lot about how you feel when you're sober...
It can feel like everything looks a little better after a couple of pints. That glorious, glistening kebab; that dance moves you’d never pull otherwise; the ‘send’ button beneath that text you shouldn’t have drafted.The study
, which was recently published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, found that people didn’t magically become hotter to participants after a bit of booze. Instead, alcohol consumption led people to make more direct moves towards the person they already fancied .In other words, the study suggests that very few of us go for someone ‘just because we were drunk’ ― we probably already liked the look of them in the first place.Molly A. Bowdring, Ph.D.
In the second round, the men who were not given alcohol in the first round were, and vice versa. Researchers compared the ratings the pairs gave while both sober and drunk. In both rounds, the participants were also asked which of the people in the photos and videos they’d most like to interact with in the future.The ratings stayed more or less the same, but those who’d drunk some booze were 1.71 times more likely to say they wanted to meet the people they liked the look of in real life.
“After consuming alcohol, participants were more likely to prefer to interact with the most attractive targets than they were after having consumed control beverages.” “This study suggests that one aspect of beer goggles missing from past experiments the prospect that one might actually be able to meet, flirt, or perhaps engage intimately with a target. Our measure of this possibility, and this measure is where alcohol exerted its impact. In this sense, the notion of beer goggles begins to bleed into its neighbouring term ‘liquid courage,’” the study says.
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