There are a lot of foods that you can enjoy “plain” that might make someone look at you funny: a hamburger with just meat and bun, no condiments, a plain scoop of ice cream with no other toppings, but no treat will cause a guttural reaction quite like someone who drinks their coffee black.
If you don’t drink your coffee black, it’s hard to understand how anyone does.
And if you do drink your coffee black, congratulations, you just might be a psychopath.
The study, from the University of Innsbruck in Austria, found that folks who enjoy more bitter flavors, such as black coffee, dark chocolate, and gin and tonics, tend to show more “psychopathic” attributes, and that they were more likely to take pleasure in seeing other people suffer.
The researchers do want to emphasize that you should take the results of this study with a grain of salt and realize that just because you might like bitter flavors that doesn’t mean you’re a psychopath.
Experts believe that 1 out of every 22 people is truly a psychopath, and if you believe you know someone who is, at least you know how they take their coffee.
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