Drinking too much too fast? Check the shape of your glass.

Here ’s some barroom give-and-take - fabric for the three daytime weekend : psychologists at the University of Bristol have shown that “ young , healthy people ” ( student and faculty from the University ) toast beer faster when it was assist up in a curved flute glass ( pictured on the right hand ) than they did when it was do to them in a neat looking glass ( visualise on the left ) .

ScienceNOW ’s Emily Underwood explains :

[ tip investigator Angela Attwood ] believe that the reason for the increase in f number is that the halfway stage in a curved glass is equivocal . Social beer drinkers , she says , naturally run to step themselves when drinking alcohol , guess their speed by how fast they reach half - full . Another experiment in which participants were asked to judge dissimilar levels of fluid in photographs of straight and curved glasses showed that people consistently misjudge the volume in fluted glasses , Attwood enounce . A round-eyed solution to this job would be to commemorate beer eyeglasses with the accurate halfway point , she says . “ We ca n’t tell people not to drink , but we can give them a little more control . ”

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