Keep drinking...
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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“is CZJ really that gorgeous?!?!”
Does a cat have a rectum?
Finally a study that was actually worth doing!
If John Edwards doesn’t get there first...
So if you have a few drinks and then see a CZJ or Liz Hurley, will the “beer goggle” effect drive you to such extremes that your brain short-circuits and you collapse, moaning and whimpering that CZJ is off the charts, beyond perfection?
Or is perfection simply the limit and that’s it?
I’m sorry, DANGER, no matter how much you drink you’ll be dead from alcohol poisoning before that image begins to improve......
I generally have a stroke when that happens.
I don’t think of myself as ‘exceptionally pretty, cute maybe’ but - hey, wouldn’t I have a leg up (so to speak) at the beginning of a Saturday night than someone who is seen through beer goggles at the end of an evening???
What would a really good looking woman be seen as at the end?
Hmmmm
Well the basic ‘news’ here isn’t surprising, everyone’s judgment is affected/clouded by alcohol, and what they they when sober about anything/anyone can change with a few drinks.
No matter how someone looks they may look ‘better’ seen through beer goggles, but then what will the situation be the next day/week/month, when everyone is sober again?
... or you wake up in bed beside them the next morning ....
Does a cat have a rectum?
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That is an improvement, but still not good enough...... Bill Clinton can have her!
Keep going, please. I’m the one of the right. After all I lean that way politically.
Heheh...that's why men always die first!
Quite a few have told me I look like Brad Pitt. I couldn’t stand the idea of the added attention. So now I drink alone at home.
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