BS... i drink mine black and i LOVE chocolate and sweets. wonder what they say about people that smoke Lucky's and PallMalls
Posted on 11/04/2018 1:03:31 AM PST by vannrox
I have a friend who always drinks his coffee black with no sugar (and is rather pretentious about it, mind you), and whenever the server asks him if he wants milk, he makes the same joke: “I’ll take it black, like my soul.” Now, a new study published in the journal Appetite suggests there may be something to that.
Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria asked more than 1,000 men and women to self-report their taste preferences and answer a questionnaire that assessed their Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, everyday sadism, trait aggression, and the Big Five factors of personality.
What they found that those who preferred bitter flavors often exhibited qualities that make them appear bitter themselves. In addition, these people often revealed sadistic or even psychopathic characteristics. In other words, evidence shows that people with psychopathic tendencies tend prefer their coffee black. According to the findings:
“The present research has demonstrated that bitter taste preferences are associated with 549 more pronounced malevolent personality traits, especially robustly with everyday sadism. [The results] confirmed the hypothesis that bitter taste preferences are positively associated with malevolent personality traits, with the most robust relation to everyday sadism and psychopathy…The data thereby provide novel insights into the relationship between personality and the ubiquitous behaviors of eating and drinking by consistently demonstrating a robust relation between increased enjoyment of bitter foods and heightened sadistic proclivities.”
The paper noted that the opposite has also been found to be true, citing previous research that indicates that those who prefer sweet tastes are “sweet” themselves to the extent that they tend to exhibit more “prosocial” personality characteristics. In general, the entire study argues that there’s something to the saying, “You are what you eat.” Again, from the report:
“Sensation seeking is one of the personality characteristics that has often been associated with individual differences in taste preferences. For example, people high in sensation seeking tend to have an increased preference for spicy food. Additionally, caffeine consumption is positively correlated with other facets of sensation seeking behavior, such as experience seeking and disinhibition. Increased preferences for sweet foods appear to co-occur with higher levels of agreeableness. Similarly, a preference for sweet white wine over dry white wine is associated with more trait neuroticism and lower levels of openness.”
Of course, none of this is determinate, and if you like bitter food, you should not make the assumption that you’re “bitter” any more than you should make the assumption that you’re sweet because you like candy.
However, it does make sense that the stimuli that we seek from what we eat and drink would correlate to the stimuli that we seek in life. And it’s worth noting that, of the correlations examined, “general bitter taste preferences were the strongest predictor compared to the other taste preferences. Taken together, the results suggest that how much people like bitter tasting foods and drinks is stably tied to how dark their personality is.”
And for more eye-opening science you should know, see here to find out which personality traits have been proven to extend your life.
Another nonsense study.
1. A correlation in one direction does not equal a correlation in the other direction.
2. A majority of people with angry personalities may prefer black coffeee but that does not mean that a majority of people who prefer black coffee have anry personalities.
Even coffee can’t make cold cereal edible.
But try a cup in you next pot of barbecue sauce
I drink my coffee black or with sugar or with sugar and cream, but never with cream alone.
Tea, hot or cold, is black only. I only drink sweetened ice tea if I have no other choicr, that is no other drink is available.
I'd say this research is just another scam on government grants.
BS... i drink mine black and i LOVE chocolate and sweets. wonder what they say about people that smoke Lucky's and PallMalls
Utterly valueless information. Are we going to start surveilling people’s coffee now?
I drink my coffee with huge amounts of cream and sugar. Therefore I am a saint.
From what I observe, being a “scientist” means that you are a psychopath.
Why would I want to put cold cereal in my barbeque sauce?
Why would I put anything in my barbeque sauce?
Why would I even want barbeque sauce?
bfl
Does drinking coffee from a human skull make you a bad person?
well, if you don’t like barbecue there’s no help for you. But it takes all kinds
However, I meant add the coffee to the barbecue sauce.
So how does your black wife respond? ;-)
Well, that’s the thing....
“Does drinking coffee from a human skull make you a bad person?”
According to the study, only if it is black.
My dad’s coffee always tasted like it was made with water from a muddy hoofprint. We always drank it black at home because, as he told us, “You might be out on a mountain side somewhere and there won’t be any ******* cream and sugar.” Then he’d tell us about Army/Air Corps coffee made in metal buckets over camp fires.
Any coffee that doesn’t taste like Pop’s is good coffee. And don’t get me wrong, one of my favorite things to do is have [really bad] coffee and Tasty Kakes donuts with my dad at the kitchen table.
Damn, some communist yokel thinks I’m a psychopath, and that’s without even seeing the size of my gun.
LOL!
I don't drink much black coffee, but I see no evil in those that do. This is insanely ridiculous.
Thank you for that post, as this study is logically flawed.
Another example for you: while 99% of death row inmates have underdeveloped frontal lobes, 99.99% of people with underdeveloped frontal lobes are not on death row.
Also, the study is of “personality types” and not expressed behaviors.
I prefer some Coffee with my Cup of Cream and Sugar.
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