Do “beer goggles” really exist?

I can’t believe this is on Yahoo!

The reasons behind this phenomenon have to do with alcohol stimulating the nucleus accumbens, aka “the part of the brain which is used to determine facial attractiveness.” In a 2002 study, male and female students were shown pictures of members of the opposite sex and asked to rate them on a scale of 1-7 (sounds cruel, we know). The more students drank, the higher they rated the photographs.

That is all. Nothing to see here.

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