People Who Prefer Black Coffee Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Or Sadistic Traits, Study Finds (rd.com)

A new study conducted at the University of Innsbruck in Austria finds that people who drink their coffee black often has psychopathic or sadistic traits. The study surveyed more than 1,000 adults about their taste preferences with foods and drinks that are bitter. They also took four different personality tests that assessed traits like narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, and aggression. From a report: Researchers found a trend that suggested a correlation between preferences for black coffee, and other bitter tastes, and sadistic or psychopathic personality traits. They also found that people who enjoyed milky or sugary coffee, and other sweet flavors, generally tended to have more "agreeable" personality traits like sympathy, cooperation, and kindness. The closest correlation found in the study was between bitter foods, like radishes and tonic water, and "everyday sadism," or the enjoyment of inflicting moderate levels of pain on others. The researchers went further, suggesting that this association between bitter foods and psychopathic tendencies could "become chronic" and get worse with time.

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Re:This is stupid junk science.

[rtb61]

Seems logical. Coffee is not just coffee, it is caffeine and also bitter as well altering digestive chemistry. So the nature of the individual and their preference for that drink, drunk in that matter and the amount they choose to drink. Psychopaths are not psychopaths because they choose to be that way, they are born that way and likely are unable to properly produce the brain chemical state of 'happiness', which has a profound affect on their psychology. This will reflect in their food choices, their tastes and those taste are not just tastes, those tastes are often molecular precursors for all sorts of brain chemicals, you will teach yourself to choose the ones that feed the nature of your brain, of your personality.

I switch from coffee to alkalised cocoa (that wash the chocolate powered with and alkalised solution which reacts with the bitter acidic elements obviating the need for sugar). Over time it all alter health and recovery state and produced a more at peace digestive tract and altered behaviour as a result, drinking a bean broth, with a little raw sugar and milk, versus drinking chemicals extracts of a burnt bean. Yeah, fuckers, you are what you eat, suck it up or should I say imbibe, so as not to exclude, drunk or smoked or swallowed or snorted or injected and how ever you choose your poisons.

I would expect psychos also prefer cocaine (excitement) and opioids (the missing happy) over a combination of THC and CBD. I would also expect psychos would be very displeased to be exposed by their behavioural patterns preferring to stab everyone else in the back. I can understand exactly why they would prefer black coffee a stimulant, it is their nature.

Re:This is stupid junk science.

[TechyImmigrant]

This kind of BS discredits the entire scientific community.

Go read the paper http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp...

It makes no stupid claims. The report only weak association (e.g. r = 0.15 for one of them).

Meanwhile the journalist Shannon Donohue wrote "Do you prefer your morning joe sans cream and sugar? A new study says you're probably a psychopath with sadistic tendencies.". Shannon Donohue is another bad journalist who's first impulse on reading a paper is to lie about it in an article.