Study Confirms: Beer Is Proof That God Loves Us And Wants Us To Be Happy!

[Initech]

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- In perhaps one of the happiest studies ever conducted, scientists confirm what many partygoers know: Just add booze and groups of men start smiling.

The study, reported this week in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, included more than 700 social drinkers in their 20s. It found that drinking significantly boosted "contagious smiling" in groups consisting solely of men, but did not have the same effect when women were on the scene.

"We wanted to explore the possibility that social alcohol consumption was more rewarding to men than to women -- the idea that alcohol might actually 'lubricate' social interaction to a greater extent among men," study author Catharine Fairbairn, a psychological scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, said in a journal news release.

Prior research has shown that men are about 50 percent more likely than women to drink excessively, and a great deal of problem drinking occurs when they're socializing, Fairbairn's team explained.

In fact, "many men report that the majority of their social support and social bonding time occurs within the context of alcohol consumption," Fairbairn said.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/a-little-booze-does-get-men-smiling-study-confirms/ar-BB6PiFv

[upaloopa]

1. I was an expert drinker until about 30 years ago.

After bankruptcy, divorce, unemployment and homelessness I learned just how much drinking makes you smile.

[Andy823]

4. I hear you

October 31 will be 29 years sober for me. Things have gone up hill from then and I smile a whole lot more now than I did then. I also have more money.

[malthaussen]

2. "If but we Christians have our beer, nothing's to fear."

From The Drawing of the Dark, attrib to Sir William Ashbless.

-- Mal

[Feral Child]

3. "Just add booze and groups of men start smiling."

A ittle while later they start missing the urinal, then begin to try to bash someone's head in.

[Volaris]

5. Yeah I kinda didn't need a scientific consensus to tell me that...just saying =)

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Beer requires human intervention

Plants that grow on their own proves God loves us and wants us to be happy (and then drink beer)

[Initech]

7. Aren't the hop plant and the hemp plant very closely related?

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. No clue

but I think they are friends.