Beer Goggles Explained

[Leanne]

Scientists in Britain claim to have discovered why, when people have had a few drinks, the opposite sex appears far more attractive.

Apparently it's all to do with face symmetry - and people's ability to detect it after they've had a couple of drinks.

Researchers at London's Roehampton University asked more than 100 people to rate faces for attractiveness and symmetry.

Some did the test while drinking and others while having a non-alcoholic drink, Britain's Daily Mail newspaper reports.

Facial symmetry - where one half of the face is identical to the other - has long been linked to attractiveness.

The researchers found that those people drinking alcohol found it more difficult to determine if a face was symmetrical than those on the soft drinks.
Researcher Lewis Halsey told the Daily Mail: "People that had drink tended to be less good a noticing if a face was asymmetrical, they often saw it as being symmetrical when it was asymmetrical."

And the women drinkers were particularly bad at the task, the journal Addiction reports.

Dr Halsey told the Independent on Sunday: "What we have shown is that people's ability to detect symmetry is part of the explanation."

A Bristol University study found that people do appear more attractive to both sexes after they've had a drink.
But other research has found no difference in people's assessment of the opposite sex after drinking.

(The West Australian, 2 April 2012)

Sure, that's the reason