YOU ARE MORE ATTRACTIVE AFTER ONE DRINK, BUT NOT TWO

(March, 2015) A new study finds that you are more attractive to others after one drink, but not after two drinks, compared with when you are sober. According to the study published Feb. 25 in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism, 40 students at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom were photographed three times: when sober, after drinking the equivalent of one glass of wine, and after drinking a second alcoholic drink. The participants were asked to make a neutral facial expression for each photo. A separate group of heterosexual students then rated how attractive they found each headshot in side-by-side comparisons. They saw either a photo of a person sober next to a photo of the person taken after one drink, or a sober photo next to a photo taken after two drinks. It turned out that the photos taken after one drink were rated as more attractive than the sober photos. But the participants found the sober photo more attractive than the one where the person had had two drinks. It’s unclear why drinking a single glass of wine might increase a person’s appeal. Researchers said it could be that the participants’ faces showed greater pupil dilation (a trait that is usually perceived as positive by a viewer), or more muscle relaxation that made them look more attractive after one drink, but not after two. Also, one drink tends to cause one to get a rosiness in their cheeks.
* Then after 6 drinks, anything starts looking attractive.
* So if you go to a place with a two-drink minimum, you’re screwed.
* Or not screwed, as the case may be.
* As studies go, at least this one sounds like a fun party.
* They were going to get a bigger sample group, but the bar would only hold so many.
* The takeaway here is, go to a bar with dim lighting and have as many drinks as you want.
* If you get drunk, put a mask on that’s a picture of you after just one drink.
* Should you really be allowed to publish a study where all you do is say something happens, but you don’t know why?
* The problem with drinking is that it makes YOU feel like you’re more attractive.
* “Hey, baby, I’m going to give you the chance of a lifetime to get to know me better.”