Post Date April, 15 2023
Recently, I often hear male friends around me complaining about having a "one night stand" with a certain woman at a bar. The next day, I woke up to find a woman who looked incredibly beautiful while drunk, suddenly falling short of her standards. Men usually find it strange, why are women so beautiful when drunk? Below, we will reveal the reason why men are more beautiful when they look at the opposite sex after drinking through the results of scientific research!
Why do men drink more and find women more pleasing
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bond University in Australia conducted a similar study in 2009.
In this study, the researchers selected 80 heterosexuality subjects (41 men and 39 women) aged 18-29 in the campus bar of Bond University. Participants need to take a breath into an alcohol tester to measure the alcohol concentration in their blood, and then evaluate the attractiveness of the opposite sex in the photos provided by the researchers. Finally, the researchers found that the higher the alcohol concentration in the blood, the higher the participants' evaluation of the attractiveness of the opposite sex in the photos. However, if the participants drank a lot, this relationship became less apparent.
In addition, a paper published in the British Journal of Psychology in 2009 discussed this issue in greater detail from other perspectives [4]. In this paper, Professor Egan Vincent from the Department of Psychology at the University of Leicester in the UK found through a study of 240 participants from bars and cafes that in the eyes of men who drank alcohol, women with makeup and mature and sexy faces were more attractive. However, drinking alcohol did not increase the attractiveness of the male participants towards underage women, and it did not cause men to overestimate the age of underage women. Therefore, it is unreliable to shirk the responsibility of having sex with a girl on the grounds of drinking alcohol.
What determines that men are more eye-catching after drinking?
As early as 1990, a study published in the Personality and social psychology Bulletin described this phenomenon. With the darkness getting thicker, the evaluation of men and women in bars on the attractiveness of other heterosexuals gradually improved, but in this study, it has not been proved that this is related to alcohol.
In 2008, researchers from the Department of experimental psychology of the University of Bristol, UK, conducted a more detailed study. The researchers recruited 84 heterosexuality single students who drank alcohol at Bristol University, half male and half female, aged 18-22 (average age 20).
In addition, the researchers also prepared 40 portraits of 20 pairs of heterosexuality students (with an average age of about 21 years) who were in love at Bristol University. The reason for choosing paired couples is because both men and women in a relationship are relatively similar in terms of attractiveness. Taking them as the evaluation object of attractiveness, the average attractiveness of the male and female groups will be closer, which helps to obtain accurate results.
During the experiment, some participants needed to drink a little vodka mixed wine, while the control group drank a drink made of tonic water (without alcohol). Next, the participants need to rate the attractiveness of the 40 portrait photos mentioned earlier on a total of 7 levels, from low to high. After completing the first test for 24 hours, the participants need to perform the same test again. Afterwards, the researchers summarized and statistically analyzed the obtained results.
The conclusion drawn is that drinking alcohol can indeed improve participants' evaluation of portrait photos. Interestingly, this is not related to gender. That is to say, in the eyes of the subjects who drank a little alcohol, both men and women would be more pleasing to the eye. Moreover, researchers also found that for male participants, after drinking for 24 hours, they still had a higher evaluation of the attractiveness of opposite sex photos.
However, the researchers also stated that their research had two issues. On the one hand, the research subjects and the people in the photos were both students from the same university, so the representativeness of such samples was not good. In addition, the amount of alcohol consumed by the participants in the experiment was not high, and no relationship was established between the amount of alcohol consumed and changes in evaluation level.
Editor's note: So, men, don't get drunk in bars anymore and go on an ons. Maybe you think you're a fairy beauty who will turn into a pig's head after alcohol failure.
(Intern Editor: Chen Hao)
