Are beer goggles real?

Science has proven what many a beer drinker probably already knows – drinking beer makes you nicer and more likely to be attracted to others. That's according to a new study conducted by researchers in Switzerland, the BBC reports, where a team from University Hospital in Basel conducted tests with 60 men and women. Researchers had an equal number of both sexes engage in a wide variety of tasks, including face recognition, empathy and sexual arousal tests while drinking either regular beer with alcohol or a non-alcoholic brew. The study found that those who drank beer with alcohol wanted to be around others and drinking also made people more talkative. The desire to be more social was also more pronounced in women and in those study participants with higher initial inhibitions.