'Beer goggles' fog up sexual signals
Randy Dotinga writes: If you're looking for a hook-up, a few drinks can suddenly make other people seem more attractive -- and receptive -- than they actually are, according to two new studies that help explain the "beer goggle" effect.
First, a suds-soaked fog diminishes a guy’s ability to detect facial symmetry, a crucial component of what we think of as human beauty. When this sense is dulled, an average-looking face may seem like it belongs to a hottie, suggests research on drunk college kids in the journal Alcohol.
To make matters even worse, another study shows liquor makes guys more likely to misinterpret a friendly female glance as a bold come-on.
"The average guy tends to perceive more women as being sexually interested after a few drinks and be more likely to make mistakes about what a woman feels," says study co-author Teresa Treat, an associate professor at the University of Iowa whose finding appears in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
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6 comments:
I never believed in beer goggles... I always knew she was ugly, after a few beers I just didn't care.
Beer, getting ugly people laid for centuries.
The girls they all seem to get prettier at closing time they all begin to look like movie stars
Ah the closing time guys at the door. We used to call the hornly row.
Never saw a bar that didn't double as a meat market.
Beer has always been known as West Virginia makeup.
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