Posted on 08/14/2008 5:15:04 PM PDT by Enchante
For the first time, scientists have proven that "beer goggles" are real - other people really do look more attractive to us if we have been drinking.
Surprisingly, the beer goggles effect was not limited to just the opposite sex among the ostensibly straight volunteers recruited for the study - they also rated people from their own sex as more attractive.
Scientists in England gave 84 heterosexual college students chilled lime-flavored drinks that were either non-alcoholic or given a dose of vodka equivalent in alcohol to a large glass of wine or a pint-and-a-half of beer.
After 15 minutes, the volunteers were shown photos of 40 other college students from both sexes. Both men and women who drank booze found these faces more attractive, "a roughly 10 percent increase in ratings of attractiveness," said researcher Marcus Munafo, an experimental psychologist at the University of Bristol in England.
The researchers also asked volunteers to rate their mood, "and there were no differences on those measures in the alcohol group compared to the no-alcohol group," Munafo added. "This suggests that the effect we observed wasn't due to a general change in mood."
It did not escape Munafo that the results are rather obvious.
"Everyone knows about beer goggles," Munafo said. "But some of our results suggest that there's more going on than we might have thought."
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ROFL!
THere’s hope for me, too!
Wow, I’m going to start spending a lot more time in singles bars now..... /s
I’ll bet that if they upped the dose of alcohol the “beer goggles” effect would be even more pronounced!
OLD SONG: Went to bed with a ten, woke up with a two.
Old Navy salt here .... Go Ugly Early
Beer ... helping ugly people to get together for thousands of years.
Did they really find others more attractive, or was the bar, so to speak, lowered? Booze, desperation and a ticking clock can be an, ahem, ugly mix.
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... er ... it required ten beers before she started to look decent.
ping.
I was thinking about Bill Clinton making that eyebrow-raising comment regardinmg that female mummy. He said he doesn’t mind dating her or something like that.
So, was he drunk?
damn, have I been drinking or is CZJ really that gorgeous?!?!
She’s a 10+ and I haven’t had a drop of alcohol!!
I was thinking about Bill Clinton making that eyebrow-raising comment regardinmg that female mummy. He said he doesn’t mind dating her or something like that.
So, was he drunk?
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Bill Clinton is a horny dog even when sober - no alcohol needed, he'll mount anything, alive or dead, that he thinks might possibly be female, or might once have been female..... I wouldn't be surprised if he rubs up against furniture and lamp posts..... if you're not careful he'll try to hump your leg just like any salivating pooch.
Hehehe....
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