What Happens to Your Specific Personality When Drinking?

There are certainly different types of drunks. “Sober Dave is boring, you should hang out with Drunk Dave, he’s wild!” or “She is usually a sweetheart, but watch out, she’s a mean drunk.” Having documented the transition to our drunk alter-egos for 100s of years, we are no strangers to the concept of drunk personality types. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that alcohol can change our personalities from a sober type to a drunk type. Today, research pioneered by University of Missouri graduate student, Rachel Winograd, supports the existence of at least four categories of drunk personalities. Importantly, she reveals if one’s type of drunk personality puts them at greater risk of alcohol-related harms (e.g. regrettable sexual encounters or drunken injuries), as well as alcohol addiction. A group of 187 pairs of undergraduate drinking buddies answered questions linking their drunk personality to the “big five” personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism). Cluster analysis of these answers led to the description of four main drunk personality types as outlined below. Not only is it a bit of fun to ask, “What kind of drunk are you?”, the drunk personality research field holds promise for the development of novel interventions to help problem drinkers. Drunk Personality Type 1: The Ernest Hemingway As Ernest Hemingway wrote, he ‘‘can drink hells any amount of whiskey without getting drunk.” T...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Addiction Brain Blogger Personality Publishers Research Substance Abuse Alcohol alcohol addition alcoholism symptoms big five personality Carla Clark PhD drinking Drunk drunk personality types drunken behavior Ernest Hemingwa Source Type: blogs