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Beer May Help You Read Certain Emotions


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Drinking Beer May Help You Read Certain Emotions

Alcohol is known to impair people's judgment, but downing a beer may actually enhance one ability: A small new study suggests that imbibing may improve people's ability to recognize certain emotions, like happiness.

Though "many people drink beer and know its effects through personal experience, there is surprisingly little scientific data on its effects on the processing of emotional social information," study co-author Matthias Liechti, a professor of psychopharmacology at the University of Basel in Switzerland, said in a statement.

In the study, 60 people ages 18 to 50 drank either regular beer that contained alcohol or nonalcoholic beer, over the course of 15 minutes. The people in the study drank about 17 ounces (500 milliliters) of beer, on average. For the people in the group that was given regular beer, that amount of beer that was meant to make them drunk enough to potentially alter their ability to recognize emotions but not too drunk to perform tasks in the study.

Read more: Live Science

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