Alcohol doesn't always bring out the best in us, but it does reveal the truth about who we are.
We like to blame booze for our behavior, like flirting or having long drunken conversations. This is because we don't want to admit that some of our hidden personalities have come out because of her.
After the recent studies our drunken selves are closer to our real selves than many of us would like to admit.
1. Drinking doesn't change you
According to the the study, which was published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, alcohol doesn't really have the power to change your personality. In fact, you are almost the same as when you are sober.
2. All findings were based on observation
Researchers at the University of Missouri and Purdue University studied the personalities of 156 people between drinking and sobriety to determine whether or not "drunk personalities" are real. Half of the participants were given alcohol and then some of their sober friends were brought in to play various games. When the drinkers and their friends later completed surveys about personality changes, the drinkers assumed that they were acting quite differently than usual. But their sober friends did not notice these changes.
3. Major personality shift
Alcohol has the power to change us in one particular way: it makes us more extroverted. As she said Rachel Winograd psychologist from the University of Missouri: "We were surprised to find such a discrepancy between drinkers' perceptions of their own alcohol-induced personalities and how observers perceive them. Participants reported differences in all factors of the five-factor model of personality, but extraversion was the only changing factor detected between intoxicated and sober participants.”
4. Why do we feel different when we are drunk?
Simple: it's the placebo effect. Our brains believe that alcohol is a social lubricant and can seriously affect our personality. It allows us to relax and interact with people in a way we never would in sobriety. But it's still us. Even after the fifth round of drinks, it's still us. We just think we're different. We didn't. That's why alcohol is never and never will be a solution! Let's work on our personality rather than "getting carried away"!
