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Marty McGraw

(1,024 posts)
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 12:21 PM Oct 2015

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 can’t 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 Appetite—and 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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Love Beer And Coffee? You Might Be A Psychopath (Original Post) Marty McGraw Oct 2015 OP
Ruh-roe. nt 99th_Monkey Oct 2015 #1
I know.. huh.. Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #3
Am I a psychopath if I love bitter substances like coffee but put a lot of sugar in it? Rozlee Oct 2015 #2
Nah... Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #5
I can own that. Rozlee Oct 2015 #22
You aren't a psychopath! world wide wally Oct 2015 #24
Can I be a psychopath AND schizophrenic? Rozlee Oct 2015 #30
Not only can schizophrenics be anything they want to be... world wide wally Oct 2015 #31
* Rozlee Oct 2015 #32
I like beer, coffee, dark chocolate AND broccoli. I must be a descendant of Attila the Hun. yellowcanine Oct 2015 #4
I like the beers Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #6
I know, I like all those things too. I've actually heard that the bitter flavor in vegtables fasttense Oct 2015 #7
"Broccoli is not bitter." You sound bitter about it. yellowcanine Oct 2015 #8
I am a little bitter fasttense Oct 2015 #34
Broccoli doesn't Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #11
I've always known I was a little off. fasttense Oct 2015 #35
Kind of how you either hate or love cilantro because of aldehydes. Rozlee Oct 2015 #33
Well to keep you confused, I taste some soapy flavor in the Asian cilantro fasttense Oct 2015 #36
Being a psychopath is so overrated anyway. Rozlee Oct 2015 #37
ok I'm reading the study. and they totally lost me at this part... magical thyme Oct 2015 #9
I wonder Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #13
I'm wondering how an embryo or fetus "tastes" anything. magical thyme Oct 2015 #15
I'm wondering how an embryo or fetus "tastes"... Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #18
. Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #19
Uh, and what little furbaby is this? LiberalElite Oct 2015 #28
I love beer and coffee, together. OnyxCollie Oct 2015 #10
Strangely Enough Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #12
Oh. Yes! I love a good coffee stout... Beartracks Oct 2015 #23
I haven't seen that in my neck of the woods. OnyxCollie Oct 2015 #25
The study seems to indicate that sociopaths prefer bitter food, but that doesn't necessarily mean corkhead Oct 2015 #14
I agree Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #16
oops, I inadvertently conflated psycopath and sociopath corkhead Oct 2015 #17
Preferrably Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #20
What kind of junk science is this? Blue_Tires Oct 2015 #21
Confirmation of my status MannyGoldstein Oct 2015 #26
Me too. Enthusiast Oct 2015 #29
Air science. bemildred Oct 2015 #27

Marty McGraw

(1,024 posts)
3. I know.. huh..
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 12:49 PM
Oct 2015

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
 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
7. I know, I like all those things too. I've actually heard that the bitter flavor in vegtables
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 01:04 PM
Oct 2015

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.

 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
35. I've always known I was a little off.
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 08:43 AM
Oct 2015

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)
33. Kind of how you either hate or love cilantro because of aldehydes.
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 07:50 PM
Oct 2015

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)
36. Well to keep you confused, I taste some soapy flavor in the Asian cilantro
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 08:55 AM
Oct 2015

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.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
9. ok I'm reading the study. and they totally lost me at this part...
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 01:31 PM
Oct 2015

"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)
13. I wonder
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 01:48 PM
Oct 2015

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)
15. I'm wondering how an embryo or fetus "tastes" anything.
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 02:06 PM
Oct 2015

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)
18. I'm wondering how an embryo or fetus "tastes"...
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 02:49 PM
Oct 2015

Now that Truly is a special Brand of Dissociative Psychopathy


Beartracks

(12,761 posts)
23. Oh. Yes! I love a good coffee stout...
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 05:21 PM
Oct 2015

And here's another good one...



Santa Fe Brewing Co.

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OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)
25. I haven't seen that in my neck of the woods.
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 07:23 PM
Oct 2015

Another reason to hit the beverage store on delivery days.

corkhead

(6,119 posts)
14. The study seems to indicate that sociopaths prefer bitter food, but that doesn't necessarily mean
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 02:01 PM
Oct 2015

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)
16. I agree
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 02:15 PM
Oct 2015

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)
17. oops, I inadvertently conflated psycopath and sociopath
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 02:21 PM
Oct 2015

we are on the same page. I think we should share a or some

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