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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: 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.