Health Issue: Secret of Beer

Secret of beer goggles uncovered

London: It's official. Beer goggles really do exist. Scientists have finally proven that strangers indeed look sexier to people when they booze.

       The phenomenon, where less attractive people suddenly become more appealing when the onlooker has consumed copious amounts of alcohol, is well known in pubs and clubs. Until now, though, no one really knew why.

        

        Now, a new study has found that drunk students were up to 10% more likely to fall for less attractive people than those who were sober. It showed the more they drank, the less likely they were to recognise finer details on people's faces.

        A team of psyehologists found 64 students of varying levels of drunkenness in bars at Roehampton University, London/ They were asked to judge 20 photos of men and women aged 18 to 25. One face in each pair was digitally enhanced to make it more symmetrical - and therefore more attractive.

        Thirty six more sober students had a 67% success rate in choosing the symmetrical face. But 28 intoxicated students (who had drunk ten or more units) chose the more symmetrical face in just 58% of cases.

        "Drunk students were less good at noticing symmetrical faces and cared less about the defects". said Lewis Halsey, who led the study.