Alcohol has no effect on men's judgement, say researchers

[mercurial]

The phenomenon is known as beer goggles - the fact that men tend to find women more fascinating after a few pints of bitter or lager.

For generations, young males have been explaining to friends that their odd choice of female company was down to alcohol.

According to the latest research, however, they have only themselves to blame.

Beer goggles are a fallacy and women actually seem no prettier after drinking, a study suggests.

'There was no great difference - the men were just as undiscerning as ever,' said Vincent Egan, the lead researcher.

Dr Egan, of Leicester University, trawled bars, cafes and airport lounges to recruit 240 volunteers for his study.

Half of the men and women had been drinking, with levels of inebriation ranging from 'relaxed and benign' to 'unambiguously drunk'.

All of them were shown photos of women and asked to comment on their attractiveness and age.

While the women rated the faces in the pictures as more attractive after drinking, alcohol had no effect on the men's judgement. Dr Egan said: 'This seemingly flies in the face of the commonly held notion of 'beer goggles'.'

It is unclear why the women thought the faces were prettier after drinking. But it may simply be they were more honest about their opinions than the men.

Drinking did not affect either sex's ability to judge age, leading to the researchers saying that the influence of alcohol should not be a mitigating factor in the case of a man accused of under-age sex.

Writing in the British Journal of Psychology, they said: 'Our study suggests that even heavy alcohol consumption does not interfere with age-perception tasks in men, so it is not an excuse for apparent mistaken age in cases of unlawful sex with a minor.'

The Leicester study, it should be pointed out, reached far different conclusions from previous research.

A Bristol University study found that people do appear more attractive to both sexes after a drink - and it takes as little as a pint and a half of beer.

In some cases, the mere anticipation of alcohol can be enough to alter judgment, the research suggested.

And a U.S. study even found that just looking at alcohol-related words made men rate the female form more highly.

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[killadoob]

showing pictures of random girls and meeting some "hot" chick when your drunk are totally different.

 

[DJ...]

showing pictures of random girls and meeting some "hot" chick when your drunk are totally different.

Spoken like a man with real-life experience.

I must agree though

 

[Picard]

I also can't understand why people can drink so much that they can't remember anything about the night before.

If I drink alot I become drunk and if I drink some more I become sick and then I stop drinking. But even at that stage I'm still exactly the same person as I were before. Alcohol doesn't change my personality or character.

Only if I drink much more, well after I became sick, might I lose my memory. But I have never reached that point.

 

[DJ...]

I bypass the sick stage - haven't thrown up in years. I do suffer from memory loss (time-compression) though. Maybe that's a good thing...

 

[Gothan]

Oh boy, all I can say is there are years missing in my life from teensy bit of over consumption, but oh well, they probably were not that good to begin with

 

[killadoob]

I get bad memory loss if i get drunk, never puke though unless i have been mixing drinks and knocking back shooters.

I have a bad memory and i think drinking heavily compounds that to the point i have very little memory from a certain point in the night. Total blank from the last memory i had type thing. Thing is i am an alcoholic i think in as much as when i drink i go big or go home and cannot stop until i go home. I only drink when i go out but make up for it when i do drink .

 

[blunomore]

Alcohol has no effect on men's judgement, say researchers.

Umm .... what judgement?

 

[mercurial]

Oh boy. Brace yourselves. The Blu has spoken.

/cues epiphany tune

 

[porn$tar]

There are some things I wish I didn't remember.

 

[killadoob]

There are some things I wish I didn't remember.

Hahaha for me mostly there are many things i am glad i did not remember and cringe when i hear what i did or said .

 

[DJ...]

Umm .... what judgement?

Mr Blu's, clearly...

 

[porn$tar]

Hahaha for me mostly there are many things i am glad i did not remember and cringe when i hear what i did or said .

Worse when you see the pics. Then there's no denying.

 

[blunomore]

Mr Blu's, clearly...

Who asked you?

 

[Tun@]

OK so why with beer is she sexy as hell but in the morning ones driven to chewing ones arm off to get the hell away??
Nothing to do with alcohol?....Bollocks....

 

[DJ...]

OK so why with beer is she sexy as hell but in the morning ones driven to chewing ones arm off to get the hell away??
Nothing to do with alcohol?....Bollocks....

Check your pillows in the morning - the fscking make-up rubs off...

 

[Devill]

Lol, i call bullshlt on their findings.

 

[Pitbull]

So they actually spent money on this research ?

It's a well know fact that your judgement stays in tact, it's you standards that is lowered when you are drunk. That is all. I would love to know who they conned into giving them the money they spend on other things, clearly

 

[Tun@]

Check your pillows in the morning - the fscking make-up rubs off...

Hey ain't that the truth!..... take home a princess + wake up with a frog

 

[porn$tar]

Check your pillows in the morning - the fscking make-up rubs off...

If you don't do it doggy-style, she wouldn't be biting the pillow in the first place.