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What type of drinker are you? Take this quiz and see.

We’ve all heard of them: the happy drunk, the angry drunk.

But what type are you?

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia say there are four types of drinkers – a figure they arrived at by getting 374 uni students to complete a personality test sober, then after drinking alcohol. The test measured how their personality changed.

Conducted by Rachel Winograd, the survey, which has been published in the Journal of Addiction Research and Theory, assessed how alcohol effects individuals differently, ranking them into four key (and very truthful) clusters.

See how you fare:

When going out are you:

A) Unaffected by how much you drink

B) What the kids call a three pot screamer – but a hoot.

C) A different person, thanks to the alcohol

D) Just really happy

At social gatherings do you:

A) Stay the same

B) Get a little more agreeable and easy going

C) Become best mates with anyone and anything

D) Forget what you did

When hitting the dance floor do you:

A) Groove with your partner - as usual

B) Try doing some risky dance moves

C) Join in the conga line

D) Break loose and start dancing in the middle of the circle.

Have you ever had to phone a friend to apologise about your behaviour?

A) No, never.

B) Only once

C) At least once a month

D) Every bloody time

When getting a cab home are you:

A) Reasonably sensible, as always

B) Chatty to the cab driver

C) Best mates with the cab driver

D) Inclined to stick your head out the window when he’s driving really fast

So what are you?

If you got mostly A’s

You’re a Hemingway. Like the famous author you can hold your alcohol – and not change much.

 

If you got mostly B’s

You’re a Mary Poppins. Just a spoon full of sugar (or in this case, grog) and you become highly agreeable and very happy. Your intellect will start to decrease, but you will get louder.

 

If you got mostly C’s.

You’re a Mr Hyde. Like the famous character – your personality shifts when you drink. You lose your ability to gauge social situations and you become a seriously extroverted version of yourself.

 

If you got mostly D’s.

You’re a Nutty Professor. Well, the name says it all doesn’t it? Chances are – you won’t be able to remember your night at all – but we’re guessing you were chatting to people, dancing and doing a lot of crazy things.

 

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