Glugging wine-coloured too tight can be triggered by a few things , from unconscious jumpiness to a witting attempt to make your crime syndicate meal seem more endurable . But according to new research , larger wine glasses also make people down their wine importantly quicker . It might seem obvious , but there ’s some science behind it all .
psychologist from the University of Cambridge and the University of Bristol headed down to a eating place with a bar in Cambridge , UK , to see if glass size had an issue on drinker ’s guzzling wont .
Over 16 workweek , the locus alternated their wine-colored chalk between the standard ( 300 ml ) size of it , and the larger ( 370 cubic centimeter ) and belittled ( 250 millilitre ) glasses . Overall , they found that sales of wine-coloured went up 9.4 percent when sold in larger field glass compared to received - sized glasses , advise multitude drank more when they had a bigger glass .
The bar area of the restaurant was particularly affected by this changing of the glass , since they saw a 14.4 percentage rise in sales event when they had large glass , compare to an 8.2 per centum increase in sales in the restaurant itself . However , the researchers scarcely noticed a difference between small- and standard - sized methamphetamine on sales .
" We found that increase the size of wine-coloured glasses , even without increasing the amount of wine-coloured , lead people to drink more , " saidDr . Rachel Pecheyfrom the Behavior and Health Research Unit at Cambridge in astatement . “It ’s not obvious why this should be the pillow slip , but one reason may be that prominent glasses change our percept of the amount of wine , leading us to pledge quicker and govern more . But it ’s interesting that we did n’t see the diametrical result when we alternate to smaller wine-colored glasses . "
The study was fund by the Department of Health in an attempt to better understand our drinking habit . After all , intoxicant remains one of the leading risk factors associated with liver disease , type-2 diabetes , and cancer . The researchers hint that the finding could go towards guide on alcohol licensing requirements , such as deoxidize the legal measure of glass sizes to help oneself people to drink less .
Marcus Munafò , prof of biological psychological science at Bristol University , added : " We ’ve previously find that people may imbibe beer faster from curved glasses than from neat glasses . This study provide more evidence that Methedrine form may regulate how much we drink . "
