They exist!!!

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Beer Goggles- nearly scientifically proven



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26205250/

Quote »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."

The discovery that the effect is not specific to the opposite sex was surprising. One possibility is that alcohol generally makes us see things as more attractive, but when this occurs in social situations, such as at a bar, "this might become targeted at opposite-sex faces," Munafo said. By repeating the experiment with video clips shot at bars, the scientists hope to recreate those social cues and see what happens.

"The main question is whether these effects are specific to faces, or whether we would rate anything as more attractive after a drink," Munafo said.

Future research could expose people who have been drinking to landscapes or the faces of puppies and other animals, "to see if alcohol has a more general effect on perceiving beauty in the environment."

"It's also surprising to see this effect is happening at lower doses than you might think," Munafo said. "We're trying to build up a more complete picture of what happens when people go out for a drink, and we're interested in certain behaviors that are more common after drinking, such as unsafe sex, or violence. If this effect is happening at lower doses than expected, it might be helpful for people who are predisposed to such behaviors to anticipate those situations and prevent them."

The scientists would also want to vary the levels of alcohol that volunteers receive, "but there are practical and ethical constraints around how much alcohol we can give people in the lab!" Munafo told LiveScience.

Munafo and his colleagues detailed their findings online August 6 in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism.© 2008 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved. [/quote]

[NSR_s30]

I LOVE CHOCOLATE

[MastaYu]

[Soravia]

Quote »they also rated people from their own sex as more attractive.[/quote]Beer makes you gay? I KNEW IT!

[PantherRacer]

Beer makes you gay? I KNEW IT!

SIGGED.

[snwbrdr435]

I just choked on ice cream reading that, i didnt know that, that was possible.

[D-Maxima]

haha cool

[gammer_ghn]

I didnt rea the whole thing but seriously its not only beer googling ladyz, i do alot of stupid stuff when i get drunk like get hyper and tend to have a problem with who ever that stares at me. I have seen videos of my self while i have been drunk and let me tell you a big dude like me being hyper is not the kind of thing you want to remember....

[MinisterofDOOM]

Quote »"The main question is whether these effects are specific to faces, or whether we would rate anything as more attractive after a drink," Munafo said.[/quote]I DARE someone to find a drink strong enough for me to find this attractive:

[krimsonviper]

a shot of "i see dead people"

grey goose, 151, wild turky, and ever clear mixed into a shot glass

[numbnuts240]

a shot of "i see dead people"

grey goose, 151, wild turky, and ever clear mixed into a shot glass

after a shot like that, i think you would be seeing more than just dead people.

[krimsonviper]

after a shot like that, i think you would be seeing more than just dead people.

hahahaha, you're telling me! the floor is what i saw next:gapteeth
Modified by krimsonviper at 8:03 AM 8/22/2008

[MinisterofDOOM]

after a shot like that, i think you would be seeing more than just dead people.

Yeah: The inside of a toilet and your last meal.

[frapjap]

a shot of "i see dead people"

grey goose, 151, wild turky, and ever clear mixed into a shot glass

I don't think that would even make it into my stomach before my throt rejected and expelled it permenantly from my body! That thing sounds like baaaad news.

[Dattebayo]

Right now, I am severely hung over from Wild Turkey. It's funny how after you drink a couple of shots it starts to taste good.

[Oatmealman]

a shot of "i see dead people"

grey goose, 151, wild turky, and ever clear mixed into a shot glass

I'm going camping tonight and these three things are coming with me,along with a cellphone for flight for life.

[Chukidori]

Beer makes you gay? I KNEW IT!

Thats incorrect actually

Beer is a disinhibitor. We all have alot of feelings that we choose not to acknowledge, or that we suppress or confuse as something else.

The going theory in Psychology now is that no one is 100% straight, Or gay. You basicaly have a "spectrum" on one end which is 100% gay..and at the other end is 100% straight. And everybody falls somewhere INBETWEEN those two extremes.

Everyone is a victim of social conditioning. From birth we are told what is acceptable and what is not, what is beautiful and what is not ETC. So lets assume you have a guy who is further on the "straight" end of the spectrum, yet still has a lesser level of attraction to guys. Well..Believing and being brought up to think "being gay is wrong and abnormal" he will naturaly disregard those feelings of same sex attraction, and mislabel them ..or ignore them in favor of his greater attraction toward girls..and call himself "straight"

Point being..Not Everyone who "identifies" as straight, is really 100% straight.

Beer simply "lowers" those barriers formed by social conditioning, and Disinhibits you..it cant "turn you gay" it merely brings existing feelings to the surface.

[Dattebayo]

Its a joke, son, a JOKE.

[Encryptshun]

Nobody expects the Wikipedia Inquisition!

[frapjap]

Nobody expects the Wikipedia Inquisition!

lmao, I was going to write something witty, but that did the job for me. Thanks!