Glass shape influences how quickly we down alcohol  Glass shape
influences how quickly we down alcohol Washington: How quickly
you consume down an alcoholic drink may depend on the shape of
the glass you’re drinking from, a new study has suggested.  For
the study, Dr Angela Attwood and colleagues from Bristol’s
School of Experimental Psychology recruited 160 social drinkers
aged 18-40 with no history of alcoholism to attend two
experimental sessions.  During one session they were asked to
drink either lager or a non-alcoholic soft drink from either a
straight-sided glass or a curved ‘beer flute’.  They found that
the participants were almost twice as slow when drinking alcohol
from the straight-sided glass as compared to the curved glass.
However, there was no difference in drinking rates from the
glasses when the drink was non-alcoholic.     Importantly, the
degree of this error seemed to be associated with the speed of
drinking – the participants who tended to show the greatest
error in their halfway judgm