The thought of drinking alcohol makes people feel more attractive, researchers say.
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Drinking alcohol - or even just thinking about being tipsy - is enough to make a person feel more attractive, researchers have found.
However, the effects of booze are only in the mind of the drinkers - other people don't find them any hotter, Medical Daily reports.
French and Dutch
researchers asked 19 men and women drinking at a French bar to rate their own attractiveness and blow in to a breathalyser.
The more the participants drank, the better looking they thought they were, according to the study published in the Journal of Individual Differences.
Researchers then conducted a second experiment consisting of nearly 90 young men who were told they were taking part in a taste test for a new lemon drink - some were given an alcoholic version, others an alcohol-free beverage. Some were told they were drinking alcohol, others told they weren't.
