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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.
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.
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.
Then why do yeast make it? It’s a good solvent, but water is even better.
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.
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...
...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.'"
Then why do yeast make it?
They don't do it on purpose, but all living things must excrete waste.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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.
Your name is oddly on topic in a very disgusting way...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Oxygen isn't just toxic, it's destructive. Back when it got into our atmosphere it almost killed off all life!
In other words, don't worry about us changing our environment. Life will prevail. And we'll most likely die out. In the end, it's win-win for the planet.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Joke? We ain't joking!
Here is everything you ever need to know about how Vodka works.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Being single celled, they don't have very big brains so they don't understand that they're destroying their own environment.
Not that multicellular organisms are much better.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
ethanol vs ethanol?
A lot of artificial sweeteners are alcohols. However, they have a laxative effect, so they can certainly affect your mood...
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.
Indeed...the Russian prisoners are ahead in the game (that was really popular in the Gulags as well):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...'
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
The study doesn't say "Ingesting alcohol has an effect!". It studies the nature of the effect based on the classification of the substance. It might surprise you to find out that ingesting water also affects your mood. Does that mean water is poison? (If you don't believe me cease consumption of water for an extended period of time and see if you do or do not experience happiness when you finally drink it; in your case 7 days would be a recommended abstinence period)
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
I always said that a brandy / cognac drunk was a mean drunk.
Looks like I've been right all along.
I could of made short work on their research and findings.
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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