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28th Aug 2015

Ever kissed someone, regretted it and blamed alcohol? Well, you’ve no excuses

The beer googles are broken

Paul Moore

The beer googles are broken.

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder beholder and while I’m certain that you’re all slick, smooth and suave customers around people that you fancy, a few drinks can sometimes loosen things up.

While we all aspire to score a Jennifer Lawrence or Ryan Gosling, sometimes your standards can slip and that blasted alcohol manages to turn 6’s into 9’s. Hey, don’t judge me. We’ve all used drink to to justify some ropey ‘scores’.

Beer Googles

Researchers at the University of Bristol have disproved this theory though after they revealed that the influence of alcohol actually has zero influence over whether or not you might find someone more attractive or not after a few jars.

Their research methodology sounds like the most fun ever because these researchers asked participants to have a few drinks and then rate a number of different faces.

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The results discovered that there was no relationship between alcohol consumption and perception of attractiveness.

Try this out over the weekend and let us know if it’s accurate. The results might be different!

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