Alcohol may cause less changes to your personality

When you are drunk, your personality may change, but not as much as you think, a study shows.

The findings revealed that people typically report substantive changes to their personality when they become intoxicated, but observers perceive less differences between their “sober” and “drunk” personalities.

“We were surprised to find such a discrepancy between drinkers’ perceptions of their own alcohol-induced personalities and how observers perceived them,” said Rachel Winograd, psychological scientist at the University of Missouri.

In the study, published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, 156 participants completed a survey gauging their typical alcohol consumption and their perceptions of their own “typical sober” personality and “typical drunk” personality. (IANS)