最新研究發現 喝啤酒使人更善於交際
Researchers from Switzerland have confirmed what most of us already know - drinking a single glass of beer can make people more sociable.
來自瑞典的研究人員證實了一項我們都已經知道的事實--喝一小杯啤酒能夠讓我們變得更善於交際。The team from University Hospital in Basel tested 60 healthy people, with an equal number of men and women drinking alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer.
來自巴塞爾大學醫院的團隊人員以60名健康的人員作爲測試目標，其中男女各佔一半，這些測試人員將飲用等量的含酒精的啤酒和不含酒精的啤酒。They took part in a range of tasks, including a face recognition test, empathy test and sexual arousal test.
這些測試人員接受了一系列的任務，包括面部識別測試，換位思考測試和性興奮測試。
The lead researcher said there had been little previous research in this area.
研究團隊的領頭人表示，在這一領域以前少有人研究。Prof Matthias Liechti explained: "Although many people drink beer and know its effects through personal experience there is surprisingly little scientific data on its effects on the processing of emotional social information."
馬蒂亞斯·裏艾迪教授解釋說：“雖然很多人都喝過啤酒，並且通過自身經歷知道啤酒對交際的影響，但使人驚奇的是，很少有對啤酒是如何影響人在處理交際信息時的相關的科學數據的收集。”
The desire to be with others, in a happy, talkative and open environment increased in the group which drank the alcoholic beer and was more marked in women and those with higher initial inhibitions.
喝了含酒精的啤酒的人們，其想要跟他人待在一起的慾望，隨着一個歡快、健談而開放的環境而逐漸增強。這一點在女性以及最初壓抑的人們身上尤爲明顯。As well as enabling the participants to recognise happy faces more quickly, the beer also enhanced participants' emotional empathy, particularly in those with lower levels of initial empathy.
不僅僅是使得參與者們能夠更快地辨認出愉快的面孔，啤酒還增強了參與者們的情感共鳴度，尤其是那些最初更不容易換位思考的人們。Participants were also shown pictures of explicit sexual content.
參與者們還被展示含有露骨的性內容的圖片。After drinking non-alcoholic beer, participants rated them as less pleasant than neutral pictures - but they were rated as more pleasant by those who drank alcoholic beer.
在飲用不含酒精的啤酒之後，參與者們認爲這些圖片比中性的圖片更使人不愉快，而喝了含酒精的啤酒之後，人們卻認爲這些透露性信息的圖片使人感到愉悅。This was most marked in the women participants, but researches found it did not actually enhance sexual arousal.
這一點在女性身上尤爲明顯。但研究人員並沒有發現啤酒提高性興奮度的證據。
