What Emotional Mess Will Your Family Be This Holiday Season?
A study conducted by Alcoholic.org revealed that drinking certain types of alcohol tends to result in a particular emotion. Admit it! We’ve all had those moments when we were either…
STRASBOURG, FRANCE – MAY 18: Italian students from the Primo Levi Technical Institute of Vignola in the Modena Province, toast with glasses of beer in a pub during a school trip to Strasbourg, France to visit the European Parliament on May 18, 2004. School trips can be a sort of initiation trip for teenagers, where they are introduced for the first time to alcohol and drugs. Many times they don’t sleep for the whole trip. The trips often allow the students to get to know each other better. If one is considered “different” than the group, it can be a nightmare experience for the teenager. Mainly the teenagers are only interested in clubs, shopping and having a pizza instead of the cultural aspects of the school trip. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
Marco Di Lauro/Getty ImagesA study conducted by Alcoholic.org revealed that drinking certain types of alcohol tends to result in a particular emotion.
Admit it! We’ve all had those moments when we were either left a sobbing mess or an embarrassment after one too many drinks. But family get together's are always a class act for the holiday season!
Out of the 1,000 participants, over 94% of men and women mostly felt happy when drinking alcohol. That fact doesn’t surprise me much since we usually drink to celebrate or to party. What makes it interesting is when you compare those numbers to how many people feel disgusted when they drink. Over 45% of men feel disgusted when they drink, with women tailing close behind at 37%.
But which types of alcohol are attributed to an emotion?
Most of the hard stuff, like vodka, gin and tequila, comes in at around 40% of alcohol. You’d think you’d get a bigger emotional impact from those drinks compared to beer, right? That might be true in most cases, but beer can have just a big effect on our emotions as the big boys can. The study divided what drink was most commonly associated with an emotion based on gender and found some interesting results.
Wine, cocktails and Indian Pale Ales (IPA) were ranked the happiest drinks for men. As for women, we prefer cocktails and wine for our emotional pick-me-ups. Give me a Fuzzy Navel or a Midori Sour any time of night and you can bet I’ll be happy and content. On the opposite side of the spectrum, some drinks tended to make us more sad and scared than others. Tequila, whiskey and gin were most commonly associated with negative emotions across the spectrum for both men and women. Vodka seemed to be a wild card in the bunch, so you might react a little differently.
With the holidays swiftly approaching, it wouldn’t hurt to find out which alcohol to avoid when during your family get-togethers. If you were planning on being a happy drunk this holiday season, I’d definitely stay away from the whiskey and gin.
