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08-19-2002, 04:03 PM
Scottish researchers have discovered that men and women who have drunk a moderate amount of alcohol find the faces of members of the opposite sex 25% more attractive than their stone-cold sober counterparts.
Eighty students from Glasgow University were shown colour photographs of 120 male and female St Andrews University students aged 18-26 and asked to rate their attractiveness on a scale between one - \"highly unattractive\" - and seven - \"highly attractive\".
Half of the student ‘viewers’ had drunk between one and four units of alcohol, equivalent to a maximum of around two pints of lager or two-and-a-half glasses of wine, while the others had drunk no alcohol at all.
Professor Barry Jones, from Glasgow University’s department of psychology, said: \" We found that the attractiveness ratings were 25% higher among the people who had had a drink.
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Eighty students from Glasgow University were shown colour photographs of 120 male and female St Andrews University students aged 18-26 and asked to rate their attractiveness on a scale between one - \"highly unattractive\" - and seven - \"highly attractive\".
Half of the student ‘viewers’ had drunk between one and four units of alcohol, equivalent to a maximum of around two pints of lager or two-and-a-half glasses of wine, while the others had drunk no alcohol at all.
Professor Barry Jones, from Glasgow University’s department of psychology, said: \" We found that the attractiveness ratings were 25% higher among the people who had had a drink.
Full article is here:
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/print.cfm?id=906622002&referringtemplate=http%3A%2 F% (\"http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/print.cfm?id=906622002&referringtemplate=http%3A%2 F%\")