Love Beer And Coffee? You Might Be A Psychopath
Humans have a unique affinity for bitter food, like dark chocolate, coffee, and broccoli. Most other animals interpret a bitter taste as a warning to stay away from a non-edible material, but some humans cant get enough of it, though scientists have never been quite sure why. How much you like those bitter foods could be a reflection of your personality, according to a new study in the journal Appetiteand people with the greatest affinity for bitter foods may even have more psychopathic and antisocial tendencies.
In the study, 500 participants were asked how much they enjoyed different examples of sweet, sour, salty, and bitter foods. Then, they were asked to take a series of personality assessment quizzes to evaluate their aggression, each of the Dark Triad measures (narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism), everyday sadism (verbal, physical, and vicarious), as well as Big Five personality traits, which include extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and....
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)Although, thankfully it can lean to other traits as well. I think it could also be said about individuals who can do fine with not being so dependent with other people to get around in life
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Just Makes you a 'Sweet Psychopath'
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Totally.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)Just schizophrenic
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)I think it lends a certain cachet.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)they are also never alone!
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)That drink like a Meal. In other words, Ale(s) I suppose. The Heavier, The Yummier
fasttense
(17,301 posts)is associated with mirco-nutrients that we don't normally get from the sweeter vegetables we tend to cultivate, like chard, chicory and some gourds. And that they are actually good for you.
By the way, I've never thought broccoli was bitter. It's actually more cabbagey tasting than bitter. I think these experimenters' bitter tasters where off. But the researchers admit they had their problems....
"The researchers even had trouble deciding which foods to use as examples for bitterness because different people describe the tastes differently."
Broccoli is not bitter.
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)fasttense
(17,301 posts)Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)Taste Bitter to Psychopaths
eyeKeed!
fasttense
(17,301 posts)But sometimes, late at night, I pick some fresh Italian Dandelion chickory and sauté it in some olive oil and garlic and eat it all. Does that make me a bad person? According to this study it makes me a psychopath. Who knew?
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)I'm amused that to some people, cilantro has a soapy aftertaste when I think it's so freakin' delicious. But, supposedly, it's because of the presence of a particular gene in the population that picks up the taste of its particular aldehydes, which to them, makes cilantro taste like soap. From the times I've accidentally gotten soap in my mouth while bathing and getting my mouth washed out for swearing or taking the Lord's name in vain, I can say that soap doesn't necessarily taste bitter. Extremely nasty, but not bitter.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)That is common in the US. But I still eat it and like it. But those coriander seeds keep me growing it. My coriander sometimes tastes like spicy oranges.
But, I have discovered a cilantro from South America called papalos or summer cilantro. It does not have a soapy flavor to me and tastes like cilantro with lime. It takes the heat much better and does not bolt in summer.
But none of it is bitter so I may not be a psychopath after all.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)"abundant findings show that earliest taste experiences in utero influence the development of food preferences"
are they telling me that fetuses "taste" what mom puts in her mouth?
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Individual-differences-in-bitter-taste-preferences-are-associated-with-antisocial-personality-traits.pdf
Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)if orange peels are on the extreme end of the 'bitter' scale. All Animals pretty much avoid (healthy,young) oranges on the tree.
Strange how much I enjoy kumquats, though. In Mexico it is used prior to a meal to enhance taste. A bowl set out on the table.
I wonder if the extreme types are more likely to pass on to a pre-born?
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)passing on a genetic pre-disposition is one thing. But how does an embryo or fetus taste anything? It doesn't, except at most whatever is already in its mouth. Which I'm pretty certain won't be oranges or kumquats.
Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)Now that Truly is a special Brand of Dissociative Psychopathy
Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)OnyxCollie
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Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)That Sounds Yummy!
Beartracks
(12,761 posts)And here's another good one...
Santa Fe Brewing Co.
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OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Another reason to hit the beverage store on delivery days.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)that if you like bitter food you are more likely to be a sociopath.
Just because all Republicans are dumb-asses doesn't mean all dumb-asses are Republicans. I am reminded of that every day on this site.
Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)It's just one trait amongst many that would make the ingredients necessary for the recipe. I would think a horoscope sign carries the same weight.
To me, though, I would think Sociopath tends to lean more to the depletion and inability to form empathy or emotion and that psychopathy would be an impulsive outburst of unharnessed unorganized emotion - as messed up as it may be and the odd draw they have to get to that point.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)we are on the same page. I think we should share a or some
Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)at a Bernie-Man Event!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I was a sociopath long before I ever developed a taste for coffee!
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)As a very, very bad man.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Like "Air guitar".