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Psychopaths Drink Their Coffee Black, Study Finds

posted by n1 on Friday June 23 2017, @08:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-like-my-metal dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

If you like your coffee black, you may be someone who prefers strong flavours, takes good care of their health, or just wants to drink their coffee the way it’s supposed to be drunk. 

Or, you may be a psychopath.

At least, that’s according to a new study published in the journal Appetite, which found a correlation between a love of black coffee and sadist or psychopathic tendencies.

The research surveyed more than 1,000 adults, asking them to give their food and flavour preferences. The participants then took a series of personality tests assessing antisocial personality traits, such as sadism, narcissism and psychopathy. 

The study, carried out by researchers at the University of Innsbruck, found that a preference for bitter flavours was linked to psychopathic behaviour.

The study missed a key, deciding factor: the coffee that psychopaths drink black is instant.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Friday June 23 2017, @10:59AM (11 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday June 23 2017, @10:59AM (#529966) Journal
    Cheap coffee tastes disgusting.

    You can disguise the taste of disgusting coffee by adding milk / cream / sugar / syrup / other crap.

    People who can afford decent coffee (and actually like coffee) drink it black.

    Psychopaths are more likely to be financially well off, as they have no problem exploiting other people to achieve wealth.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 23 2017, @11:14AM (4 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday June 23 2017, @11:14AM (#529971) Journal

    If you start drinking IPAs, you end up having no problem drinking black coffee.

    I did a quick search to try to compare the bitterness of IPAs and coffee, and found this:

    Love Beer And Coffee? You Might Be A Psychopath [popsci.com]

    That's right, I found another version of the 2015 TFA I did not read!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 23 2017, @12:45PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 23 2017, @12:45PM (#529988)

      If you start drinking IPAs, you end up having no problem drinking black coffee.

      Nope, I still hate coffee. Hell I don't even like having to smell it when someone else is brewing it in the lunchroom.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday June 23 2017, @01:07PM

        by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday June 23 2017, @01:07PM (#529994) Journal

        I posted about cold brew coffee in another comment and submitted [soylentnews.org] it as well. The article says:

        Cold brew is more than a slowed-down version of hot coffee; it's a noticeably different product. Hot water will bring out the acids in coffee, a characteristic that professional tasters call "brightness." Cold water doesn't but still gets the full range of mouthfeel and sweetness. The absence of acidity in cold brew is even more pronounced when compared with the iced coffee from the dark ages (of a few years ago), when it was almost always made with hot coffee that was chilled in the refrigerator. When hot coffee cools, even more acids develop, many of them unpleasantly harsh.

        So maybe there is something for you in this new trend.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by schad on Friday June 23 2017, @12:49PM (1 child)

      by schad (2398) on Friday June 23 2017, @12:49PM (#529989)

      If you start drinking IPAs, you end up having no problem drinking black coffee.

      Perhaps, but if you really like the taste of coffee your beer of choice should probably be a stout or porter.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 23 2017, @12:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 23 2017, @12:14PM (#529984)

    Psychopaths are more likely to be financially well off, as they have no problem exploiting other people to achieve wealth.

    "psychopathic behaviour" as defined by the DSM is "anti-social personality disorder". Without a link to the actual paper we cannot be sure how they controlled for the tests. In contrast to psychopaths, many sociopaths present as so anxious, impulsive and quick to play victim when their aggression is challenged that anybody with any common sense avoids them completely. These individuals are the dregs of society and can rarely afford expensive coffee or anything else. This inverse correlation of yours seems highly unlikely.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday June 23 2017, @05:59PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday June 23 2017, @05:59PM (#530121) Journal

    That's right, but then it's about two different coffee drinking experiences. Drink it quickly in volume to wake up and get to work means any old thing will do. Sip and savor it while watching the morning mist on the pond should be done with quality coffee and drunk black.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 23 2017, @09:03PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 23 2017, @09:03PM (#530238)

    What are non-cheap coffee you recommend, that is good for cold-brew and available at Costco?

    • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Saturday June 24 2017, @04:59AM

      by epitaxial (3165) on Saturday June 24 2017, @04:59AM (#530456)

      Don't know about Costco but I would try anything with a dark roast.

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:51AM

      by TheRaven (270) on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:51AM (#530531) Journal
      No idea about CostCo, they don't operate in the country where I live. I usually drink a mocha and mysore mixture (actually, a mix of three bean types now, but with a similar taste). These are medium roast and give a rich flavour without too much bitterness. I tend to grind my own, though any reasonable coffee shop will sell this mixture and can grind it for you and make it with either a cafetiere or drip filter machine.

      In the US, Starbucks made coffee to compete with diner coffee, which was typically made with a drip filter machine and then left on a hot plate to burn for hours on end. This results in a disgusting burnt taste that you can closely approximate by using charcoal instead of coffee beans. You can get very good coffee in the US, but the average quality is appalling.

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  • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Saturday June 24 2017, @04:57AM

    by epitaxial (3165) on Saturday June 24 2017, @04:57AM (#530455)

    I roast my own coffee beans and drink it with cream and sugar.