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Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com)
A new study published in the journal BMJ Open says different types of alcoholic drinks change and shape your mood in different ways. For example, spirits may make you feel angry, sexy or tearful, while red wine or beer may make you feel relaxed. The researchers questioned nearly 30,000 people aged 18-34 from 21 different countries for the study. BBC reports: The anonymous online survey, which recruited respondents via newspaper and magazine adverts and social media, found:
-Red wine appeared to make people more lethargic than white wine
-Respondents were most likely to report feeling relaxed when drinking red wine or beer
-More than 40% said drinking spirits made them feel sexy
-Over half said drinking spirits also gave them energy and confidence
-But around a third said they felt aggressive when drinking spirits
-Drinking spirits was more likely than all other drink types to be associated with feelings of aggression, illness, restlessness and tearfulness
-Men were significantly more likely than women to associate feelings of aggression with all types of alcohol, particularly heavier drinkers
Prof Bellis from Public Health Wales NHS Trust said the setting in which the alcohol was consumed was an important factor that the study tried to take into consideration by asking about drinking at home and outside of the home. He said the way different drinks are marketed and promoted might encourage people to select certain drinks to suit different moods, but that this could backfire if it triggered negative emotions. He also said the study revealed a difference between men and women's emotional relationship with different alcoholic drinks.
-Red wine appeared to make people more lethargic than white wine
-Respondents were most likely to report feeling relaxed when drinking red wine or beer
-More than 40% said drinking spirits made them feel sexy
-Over half said drinking spirits also gave them energy and confidence
-But around a third said they felt aggressive when drinking spirits
-Drinking spirits was more likely than all other drink types to be associated with feelings of aggression, illness, restlessness and tearfulness
-Men were significantly more likely than women to associate feelings of aggression with all types of alcohol, particularly heavier drinkers
Prof Bellis from Public Health Wales NHS Trust said the setting in which the alcohol was consumed was an important factor that the study tried to take into consideration by asking about drinking at home and outside of the home. He said the way different drinks are marketed and promoted might encourage people to select certain drinks to suit different moods, but that this could backfire if it triggered negative emotions. He also said the study revealed a difference between men and women's emotional relationship with different alcoholic drinks.
Vodka always makes me want to hack things.
Plenty of Cuervo! Chicks will do anything on Cuervo!
*THEY'LL EVEN LEZ OUT!*
He also said the study revealed a difference between men and women's emotional relationship with different alcoholic drinks.
He doesn't work for Google does he?
... stuff we already knows.
That's why my wife keeps locking up the bourbon.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Minds altered from alcohol is a subject that comprises most of human literature.
Alcohol is poison, it destroys and kills on contact.
Ingested poison alters the mind, what a great discovery!
Next they will tell us that hallucinogenic drugs cause hallucinations!
I think this has already been shown this is purely a psychological effect, i.e. the type of alcohol affects your mood in precisely the way you expect it to. A scientific study of the actual "real" effects would have done a proper double blind test and given the participants alcohol (or not) without being told what it was exactly instead of filling out a survey form.
it seems plausible to me that stereotypes repeated in entertainment/art could easily be more of a factor in survey results than actual bio/nueral/chemical process variance.
For doube-blind, perhaps find a way to disable tastebuds (inject in a vein/stomach perhaps?) and then observe subjects during their trip/inebriation as well as asking them their thoughts afterwards. That sounds way more scientifically valid a way to draw conclusions than just asking people for their anecdotes. But of course, surveys are easy, start there, but just don't prematurely jump to conclusions.
This isn't really helping the general view on us readers of Slashdot, that we need studies to tell us this.
The terrible sitcom joke would be: ".. you too can feel sexy with a drink of spirits in your hand."
How I Met Your Mother episode 6x22 example of getting the characters the "right kind" of drunk.... https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/05/how-i-met-your-mother-not-all-alcohol-is-created-equal/238209/
A large part of the episode is devoted to describing the varied effects that different boozes have on the characters. Between the quick cuts to illustrative flashbacks of Robin getting weird on absinthe, Ted beat-boxing on Bourbon, Barney reaching "sad clarity" with red wine, Lily lusting after Robin on martinis, Marshall provoking fights with his own reflection on gin Video clip
Numerous studies have shown that people conform to social norms and expectations when drinking. Unless they did this study where people didn't know what type of alcohol they were drinking then it shows nothing except the expected social expectation for each type of alcohol.
I only get drunk or not. I'm happy and a little sleepy.
The only think that made me feel a little different was Absinthe. It's an odd "wakeful drunkenness" without as much shimmer as I get from other alcohols.
But I have a client who is mean as hell on whisky but a happy kitten on tequila.
Logically, it should make *no* difference between those two.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Well, more of a jerk. Beer and wine do not.
Alcoholic beverages can be roughly divided into clockwise and countercockwise. Balance them correctly and the room doesn't spin.
There is a flaw in the premise. Does this show the type of alcohol affects the mood, or the mood/personality affects the choice of alcohol?
I would call these "alcoholic beverages" and not "different types of alcohol".
If I remember my high school chemistry, an "alcohol" is any molecule that ends in "OH" and the only type that doesn't kill a person is "ethanol" and is the active ingredient found in beer, wine, scotch, etc.
Regardless of the mood beverages derived from ethanol makes a person, the result of a person ingesting any of the other forms of alcohol is death. So, don't drink methanol to see what the difference in the high is to something like brandy.
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-Drinking spirits was more likely than all other drink types to be associated with feelings of aggression, illness, restlessness and tearfulness
Previous science told us it's not the type of alcohol that gives you a worse hangover or has worse affects, but the amount - and almost solely the amount (exactly how close to 100% I don't see that it was ever concluded). But any feeling of difference due to type is only perceived. Eg
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3888958/
Here's an article more repeating what I've heard a million times (including a bartender class):
https://io9.gizmodo.com/do-different-kinds-of-alcohol-get-you-different-kinds-o-482710477
So, if TFA is simply repeating people's answer to a survey, then it doesn't disprove the previous line of thinking, and is actually misleading imo.
People build up tolerance to alcohol over time and can end up drinking more to feel the same "positive" effects that they enjoy.
Again, another thing I thought was against previous studies. You feel the same effects, but "tolerance" is achieved simply because you are used to feeling these affects, and can attempt to act more normal since you expect them and make an effort to do so.
I have a suspicion that they're noticing these differences primarily due to the rate at which the alcohol is initially absorbed; alcohol absorption rate varies with concentration, among other factors. Liquor is quicker, after all, and in more ways than one.
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Now they should do a proper double blind study of mary jane to prove what we already know about its effects.
slashdot: A failed experiment.
the only type that doesn't kill a person is "ethanol"
I get your point about methanol but there are all sorts of sugar alcohols that are safe to consume. I don't know whether you'd class propylene glycol as an alcohol, but it's certainly edible.
...people have similar perceptions about how different drinks make them behave. In similarly non-science news, we have some flat earthers to talk about...
Alcoholic beverages all all the same type of alcohol.
That really is the only significance of the story. We have known this for decades. Everybody has that relative that you shouldn't let drink gin.
Gin will make you sin.
I'm here for the experience, not the Hyperbole.
Malitol, Sorbitol, Xylitol, Fuckitol, etc...
Know that the commercial spirits, even super well known brand names and biggest market share you may consume contain brain damaging nasties including methanol. You can re-distill these nasties out with extra home distillation. Eye opening to see whats in the bottled 'heads'.
In this day and age, this is criminal behavior by big distilleries to save 15 cents or less. If 700ml then at 99% purity, that's 7mls of methanol.
Its exciting. A couple of ultrasonic passes over activated charcoal is needed. If Whiskey, an ultra-sounded barrel will age it more .
...were found to be alcohol consumers!
If I remember my high school chemistry, an "alcohol" is any molecule that ends in "OH" and the only type that doesn't kill a person is "ethanol" and is the active ingredient found in beer, wine, scotch, etc.
Ethanol kills plenty of people.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Not the other ingredients either. It's probably people's expectations, formed by culture and marketing. It might also be the other way around: People who feel a certain way after drinking choose particular types of alcoholic beverages. At least the way it is presented here, this study is as close to science as a Cosmo Wedding Dress Test that tells you who you should marry based on the wedding dress choices.
Kids at a birthday party have been shown to be in a different mood if served sweet soft drinks than if they had been served tepid tap water.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Spirits (usually either Kraken Rum, some sort of whiskey, or vodka): mellow and sleepy
Wine (Blackberry Merlot most of the time): mellow and sleepy
Beer (Alaskan Amber as first choice): mellow and sleepy
Add a bowl of weed to any of them: totally zonked out for the next hour; unless it is a dab and I accidentally inhaled as if it was a joint or bowl, then I am dead for a year for tax reasons.
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Some drinks make people think they're 10000% more hilarious than they really are while others make them think they can fight all the sober people. So in other words, don't drink.
If you drink none at all it makes you want to set off a bomb at a concert or drive a van at people crossing a bridge.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
In viro veritas.
People who drink then use 'being drunk' as an excuse to show their REAL emotions. The idea that different drinks, which all contain the SAME drug, alcohol, induce different emotions, is laughable, and is obviously based on people making excuses for their bad behaviour.
no, but it qualifies you for a position in Trumps Repub party.
1) Yes, quite, this is a measure of what people THINK makes them act in certain ways, with no double blind, no control, no measurement, in fact no science. Yawn.
I hear what you're saying, but also remember that our self-perceptions of ourselves can affect things as well. Think of it as a variant of the placebo effect: chemically it shouldn't do much / anything, but something still happens.
It's why steeping your black tea for 7 minutes has vastly different effects than steeping it for 2 minutes!
(The tannins take longer than the caffeine, to get released.)
Sugar makes you excited by raising your blood pressure and adrenaline,
tannins make you calm and tired,
and alcohol raises your blood pressure too, apart from making you drunk, of course,
etc.
It's not rocket science!
Tannins are well-known to make you more relaxed and slow down the effects of e.g. caffeine.
Sugars are well-known to make you excited and all the other effects of high blood pressure and too much energy. (E.g. Red Bull's effects are due to both caffeine and sugar, and none of the other ingredients.)
And even you won't deny, that caffeine has effects!
I bet fruit acids and other substances have effects too! (Just think of Tequilla.)
I never had the room spin. I never saw double. I never threw up. And I never had a hangover. (... due to alcohol.)
And at one point, where I had a friend that was an alcoholic, we both drank a bottle of vodka, then a bottle of rum, then another half bottle of vodka.
And all that happened, was me getting super-horny. (Thankfully, nobody is bothered by nudity or sticking stuff up your butt in my country. ^^)
So what the hell are you guys doing? It seems to be such a popular meme, but I still can't tell if everyone is just making it up.
Wine/Women - Nuts ... ...
Wine/Men - (none)
Beer/Women - Cool&Wild
Beer/Men - Beer Muscles & Angry Posturing
Vodka/Women - Hot Russian Woman
Vodka/Men - Physical Assault Imminent
Whisky/Women - Passed out at bar with a Cigar
Whiskey/Men - Passed out behind the wheel of a running car
Ethanol kills plenty of people.
Three times as many as guns in the US (88k vs 30k). Ten times as many in EU compared to guns in the US (290k vs 30k). Those numbers are dwarfed by stillbirths, fetal alcohol symptom sufferers and other birthing complications like cerebral palsy, or that around 40% of violent crime in the US has an alcohol factor. Imagine reducing the violent crime rate by 40%, reducing FAS by 100%, reducing miscarriages and stillbirths massively, and saving 320k lives a year.
I really care about human life and think it's a travesty that nearly everyone puts other values above it.
Alcohol needs to go.
ethanol vs ethanol?
A lot of artificial sweeteners are alcohols. However, they have a laxative effect, so they can certainly affect your mood...
"Over half said drinking spirits also gave them energy and confidence" -- that energy is from the fucking red bull they are mixing it with.
Someone has to spill beer on the server, after all.
In a world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king--and the two-eyed man is a heretic.
If I remember my high school chemistry, an "alcohol" is any molecule that ends in "OH"
I agree, a lot of my experiences with alcohol also end with an "Oh".
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
I think, same alcohol, different drinks or beverages.
Someone needs to correct all the errors here:
-different alcohol doesn't make a difference, but different alcoholic beverages do make a difference.
-most beer has lots a carbs, which has to be processed differently than by our second brain, and that slows down the person drinking.
-vodka has no carbs, so is lighter, so you have more energy left for moving and thinking.
-shots hit the brain faster than drinking wine or beer, which goes down slow unless at a college frat party.
So it's not the type of alcohol, but the type of alcoholic beverage that matters.
Is there a sampling bias in which types of folks choose which types of drinks?
Where do I sign up for the free booooz^H^H^H study?
I really care about human life and think it's a travesty that nearly everyone puts other values above it.
What point is there to life if you're not having fun? You're not a puritan, are you?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Ethanol makes me drunk and hangover. t-amyl alcohol is 20x more potent than ethanol and doesn't cause hangovers. Methanol just makes me blind
And I like their theory better, the ammount you drink changes how you feel.
"Dionysus decided to leave the Ellade and escape to Sicily bringing a grape vine with him.As he was undertaking a long sea voyage, and needed to protect the small plant from the elements, he first placed it inside the bone of a bird, and later inside that of a lion, and since it kept growing, he finally placed it in the bone of a donkey. Thus was born the first ancient rule of drinking, and which is still worth remembering today:"
“A good glass of wine makes you light as a bird, another drink and you are courageous as a lion, but when you exaggerate with wine, you end up an ass!.” Upon his arrival in Sicily, Dionysus planted the first vineyard at Naxos, just below Taormina, the first Greek colony.
I always said that a brandy / cognac drunk was a mean drunk.
Looks like I've been right all along.
Which is why people like buying and shooting assault rifles.
You seem to assume that ethanol is the only active ingredient in those drinks. That is definitely open to doubt, debate and testing.
It's entirely possible (though also definitely not proven) that ethanol interacts with other ingredients to produce different effects when taken in different drinks.
I could of made short work on their research and findings.
Alcohol just like any other drug humans take to self medicate. How is this ground breaking?
While pondering how one might actually conduct a double-blind study on something like this, I can't think of much that doesn't somehow involve anesthesia (eliminate distinguishing sensations) or adulterants (not really sure how to homogenize the taste/feel of beer and liquor/etc, especially if one wants to test with carbonation), and I suspect either of these would skew the results.
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You know what the antidote to methanol poisoning is?.. Ethanol...
Re: Liquor "Types"
Small types of glasses make you slightly merry.
Larger types of glasses increase merriment.
Great big glasses cause maximal merriment. Then you fall down!
Red wine gives me a headache before I can enjoy it, White wine makes me want to hit people, Beer, Cider and Spirits just make me grin and relax. ....
I have figured that out since my 20's, and stick to the Beer. But it wasnt until I was in my 40's that I overheard my Grandmothers brother decline a glass of red wine because
The REAL trick is getting someone to pay for you to turn 'Folklore' into 'Science'