Are you really as awesome when you're drunk as you think you are? Perhaps not, finds a group of French scientists who probed the effects of alcohol on self-evaluation and published the results in the British Journal of Psychology. For their first experiment - conducted at a bar, of course - they asked drinkers to rate how attractive they are. Not surprisingly, the more alcohol a person had consumed, the higher the rating they were likely to give themselves. Next, participants in a staged "taste test" study were given cocktails with or without booze.
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