Claire. Posted September 23, 2016 #1 Share Posted September 23, 2016 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith Posted September 24, 2016 #2 Share Posted September 24, 2016 You know I'm gonna test this right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claire. Posted September 24, 2016 Author #3 Share Posted September 24, 2016 1 hour ago, Zenith said: You know I'm gonna test this right? Go for it and report your findings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurzweil Posted September 25, 2016 #4 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Beer hasn't helped me make a decent post here ever. What were we talking about again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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