Alcohol Doesn’t Make People Seem More Attractive, Study Finds : ScienceAlert

Being under alcohol’s influence doesn’t make others appear more attractive, new research reports, but it can give people the confidence to initiate contact with someone they find attractive.

While it isn’t the first time the phenomenon colloquially referred to as ‘beer goggles’ has been put to the test, the scientists behind the study claim their investigation is the first to systematically investigate this belief.

“One aspect of beer goggles missing from past experiments is the prospect that one might actually be able to meet, flirt, or perhaps engage intimately with a target,”…