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Skip navigation!ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTWhy You Can't Blame Last Night's Behaviour On "Drunk You"Jess CommonsLast Updated 6 June 2018, 9:24 Illustration: Anna SuditSome people claim they're a "funny drunk", others claim they're a "sad drunk". Either way, everyone thinks their drunk personality is different from what they're like normally. Whether drunk you is louder, more melancholy, less anxious or whatever, she gets blamed for a hell of a lot of things – both good and bad.Turns out, though, "drunk you" might not be as much of a thing as you think she is. A new study from the University of Missouri has found that, contrary to what we might believe, other people can't see that much of a difference in our personalities when we're drunk compared to when we're sober.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe study, run by psychological scientist Rachel Winograd and published in Clinical Psychological Science, took 156 participants and asked them to complete a survey about what they thought their personality was like when they were sober, and what they thought they were like when they had consumed alcohol.

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When the participants came into the lab, they were split into groups with friends of theirs, some were given alcohol (Sprite and vodka – Winograd's choice of drink as a student. Lass.) and some were given a soft drink. They were then set tasks, games and discussions which were specially designed to show off certain personality traits. Throughout the activities, the participants were again quizzed on themselves while impartial observers watched and assessed them from the outside.Interestingly, the drinking participants felt they noticed more of a change in themselves when it came to all five main personality traits but the outside observers, less so. The drunk participants reported lower levels of consciousness, felt they were more agreeable, more open to experience and felt more extroverted and emotionally stable (ha).However, the outside observers only noticed that the drinking participants became more extroverted – everything else didn't register.

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"We were surprised to find such a discrepancy between drinkers' perceptions of their own alcohol-induced personalities and how observers perceived them," Winograd said. "Participants reported experiencing differences in all factors of the Five Factor Model of personality but extraversion was the only factor robustly perceived to be different across participants in alcohol and sober conditions."So how's that for a sobering thought? The confident and together woman you think you are when you're drunk might not be real but, on the flipside, that means the neurotic, overly emotional drunk you might not be as visible to the outside eye as you thought.Basically kids, drunk you is probably just you. But louder.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENT TrendsYou’re Not An Empath, ActuallyRaise your hand if you’ve heard someone call themselves an “empath”, or you yourself have claimed the label. It sounds virtuous, right? An empath is by Tanyel MustafaOnline DatingReddit’s Dirtiest Pick-Up Lines Will Make You BlushWe’re all familiar with “Hey baby, what’s your sign?” and “If I coul’d rearrange the alphabet, I’d put U and I together.” But what abouby Erika W. SmithSexThe Sexual Hygiene Habit You Should Never SkipThere are two rules that anyone having anal sex has hopefully heard before: First, always use lube; second, don’t go straight from anal sex to vaginaby Cory StiegAdvertisementADVERTISEMENTUnbotheredWomen Of Faith Are Quietly Skipping Their Cervical Screenings — H...I had smear-test anxiety long before I got my first invitation letter from my GP asking me to come in for my first cervical screening. And when it arrived,by Susan AkyeampongRelationshipsDating Is So Bleak, Even The Anxious Girlies Are Becoming AvoidantAre you anxious, avoidant or secure? What’s rarely discussed is whether people can switch from one camp to another. People wear their “anxious” labelby Tanyel MustafaHoroscopesYour Horoscope This Week: 10th To 16th AugustWe made it through, skymates. The 8/8 Lion’s Gate Portal, the Aquarius Full Moon, and the final few days of a drama-drenched Mercury Retrograde in Leby Dossé-Via TrenouBodyIf You’re Itchy & Uncomfortable It Might Be Bacterial Vagin...If you’ve ever experienced bacterial vaginosis, otherwise referred to as BV, you’ll know how uncomfortable it is. But you’ll also know, iby Tanyel MustafaHoroscopesThe Full Sturgeon Moon In Aquarius Is Here — Now UnwindThere comes a time every month where we must engage with the flow of the moon to connect with ourselves and this is the full moon. This phase of the moon uby Lisa StardustBodyIf Your Vulva Is Tingling, This Might Be WhyDepending on the situation, your vulva can sometimes feel wet, itchy, burning, or swollen. Sometimes a new feeling in your vulva is the result of a health by Erika W. SmithHoroscopesThe Lion’s Gate Portal 2025 Is Here — It’s Time To ManifestThe Lion’s Gate Portal is upon us! August 8th (8/8) is a highly auspicious time for us to manifest and to consider our hopes. Why, you ask? The spirby Lisa StardustHoroscopesMars In Libra Is Here — & It’s Time For You To ChillMars’s entrance into Libra on August 6th allows us to decompress. The summer has been full of retrogrades, so we’ll relish being drama-free, but only iby Lisa StardustHoroscopesYour Horoscope This Week: 3rd To 9th AugustWhat if the cosmos is calling us to speak up — right now? This week begins with a rare celestial alignment: Uranus in Gemini forms a quintile aspect to tby Dossé-Via TrenouAdvertisementADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENT