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Science Says Drinking Your Coffee This Way Means You’re More Likely to Be a Psychopath
BestLife ^ | 4NOV18 | Diana Bruk

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.


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KEYWORDS: black; coffee; democrat; food; morejunkscience; psychology
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To: vannrox

I like my cocoa like my women, hot and whipped.


81 posted on 11/04/2018 4:59:10 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: miniTAX

sociology is not science

creating and manipulating numbers is not science


82 posted on 11/04/2018 4:59:41 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: vannrox

And a glass of wine will kill you, there I fixed it cheers and good morning to ya!


83 posted on 11/04/2018 5:01:47 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: vannrox

I just read all the posts and was gratified to see that no one mentioned the trendy, liberal double whipped, soy milk, latte machiatto, silly fru-fru- pansy nonsence they refer to as coffee.

Now, here’s your best coffee deal. When going on a road trip, get one of those large steel Stanley thermoses.

Go fill up at your favorite gas station, preferably one that moves lots of coffee. Even though it’s 45 or so ounces, they only charge you for a large. Sometimes less cause there’s no cup.

If you pre-warm the Stanley thermos with hot water, it will stay hot for hours. At least 700 miles.


84 posted on 11/04/2018 5:07:47 AM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: vannrox

3/4 through this fascinating article, the author concludes: “of course, this is all BS, but.....”.


85 posted on 11/04/2018 5:09:05 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: vpintheak
Hey, at least they drink coffee.

Not like those nuanced, effeminate chai-drinkers.

(Diving for the foxhole in prep for the incoming counter-battery.)

86 posted on 11/04/2018 5:15:17 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Disarming Liberals...Real Common Sense Gun Control!)
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To: vannrox

This sounds like a “study” to prove that libs, because they go to Starbucks and other cool coffee shops to get their super cool sweet coffee flavors at twice the price, are smart,nice,and the only mentality balanced people, and conservatives, because they make their own and don’t hang out at the cool coffee shops, that they are evil and bitter.


87 posted on 11/04/2018 5:15:38 AM PST by Ponyexpress9790
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To: miniTAX

Yep, I hate bitter veggies. But love my Black Coffee. Carrying my first child cured me of the cream and sugar. Don’t give me ‘mellow’ crap either. But not as horrid as S. Bucks crap that is NASTY coffee.

A very reasonable person, sunny disposition. 1 think I can’t stand are dumb Democrats.


88 posted on 11/04/2018 5:18:43 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: cuban leaf

Roger is the best.


89 posted on 11/04/2018 5:19:58 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: Greg123456

“...butter ruins corn on the cob.”

You, my friend, are truly insane.


90 posted on 11/04/2018 5:25:49 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: LukeL
I am also very timid and meek. I hate confrontation and avoid arguments at any cost.

I think I saw the same thing on a thread about pit bulls.

91 posted on 11/04/2018 5:29:24 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: vannrox
Here’s CRAZY for ya! (Your friend obsessed with bullet proof coffee) seriously funny check it out friends. I told my mom the other day that I hope that I didn’t come off sounding like this guy (keto diet here) 😂 https://youtu.be/m3-QB3xzc60
92 posted on 11/04/2018 5:31:54 AM PST by SaintDismas
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To: Squantos

Beer is better, oh wait, I was thinking ice cream floats.


93 posted on 11/04/2018 5:33:47 AM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: vannrox

94 posted on 11/04/2018 5:38:48 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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To: cuban leaf
Nice! I watched that video drinking a cup of coffee while sitting underneath my coffee tree.

But I'm not addicted...(reaches for chocolate covered espresso beans).

95 posted on 11/04/2018 5:40:58 AM PST by CtBigPat (Qanon - Please be real...)
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To: super7man

I have warned people I have one of those outbursts every couple of years.


96 posted on 11/04/2018 6:00:31 AM PST by LukeL
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To: vannrox

What of a those of us who don’t like or drink coffee at all? Are we the real psychos?


97 posted on 11/04/2018 6:01:30 AM PST by xp38
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To: vannrox

Oh bull. Waste of money and waste of time “research”. Waste of my time to even give it this little bit of recogintion.

Coffe black but I can OD on spice drops and should never have them.


98 posted on 11/04/2018 6:04:30 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Oratam

100% in New Jersey!


99 posted on 11/04/2018 6:25:24 AM PST by Atticus
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To: vannrox

I will only drink coffee black and I am nowhere near becoming a psychopath.

Now excuse me while I go and finish my plans for world domination.


100 posted on 11/04/2018 6:28:42 AM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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