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Named for the writer and err, drinker who famously bragged that he could "drink hells any amount of whiskey without getting drunk", Hemingways do not show any major changes in personality even
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after consuming copious amounts of alcohol. Forty percent of the 374 tested fall into this category.
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Perhaps the sweetest and the most cheerful of the bunch, the Mary Poppins group already have outgoing personality types, but somehow become more affectionate when drunk. These are most likely
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the folks who scream "I love you" to everyone at the bar.
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Ah, you wouldn't want to be around a Mr. Hyde on a night out of drinking. This bunch, according to researchers, are “particularly less responsible, less intellectual, and more hostile when
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under the influence of alcohol.” They're the ones who are most likely to black out and get arrested for unruly behavior.
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These guys - named for the Eddie Murphy-played character who was chemically transformed into the more extroverted version of himself - are natural introverts when sober, but release their inhibitions after
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a few drinks. This is that one friend you have that is usually quiet but becomes the life of the party when drunk.
When you're out with your friends at a bar, you probably already know which one will get knocked out by the end of the night, which one will pour their feelings and cry after a bottle, which one will sit in the corner and giggle uncontrollably, and which one will act like they didn't douse themselves in alcohol.
Now we have data backed by science to prove that there really are "drunk types" after all. Thanks to the published research by scientists from the University of Missouri at Columbia, we can now categorize drunk people into four groups, each of them fascinatingly named after pop culture icons: Ernest Hemingway, Mary Poppins, Mr.
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