Drinking coffee reflects your personality traits?

You think you never take drugs, but coffee is actually a drug.

In the words of psychologists and neuroscientists, coffee is probably the most widely used psychoactive substance (psychoactive substance) in the world, and it is legal and available everywhere.

Murray Carpenter, a pioneer in caffeine research, loves coffee himself. After years of investigation and research, he expounded a core point in his book the Story of caffeine (Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us): caffeine is a drug.

In fact, caffeine addiction is listed as a mental disorder in the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which means that caffeine users experience symptoms such as restlessness, nervousness, insomnia, excitement, as well as adverse reactions to the gastrointestinal, urinary and heart systems, and high doses of caffeine may even kill people. About 7% of the American population may be judged to have caffeine poisoning.

DSM-5 also mentioned "caffeine withdrawal", in which people who use caffeine for a long time feel headache, fatigue and irritability when they suddenly stop or reduce their intake. If you get up in the morning or after lunch and feel drowsy, headache, difficulty concentrating, and depressed because you don't drink coffee or other caffeinated drinks, you are likely to be addicted to coffee and have a withdrawal reaction.

? The thrill of coffee, like cocaine and marijuana.

Balzac, a master of literature, described how he felt when he drank coffee: "Coffee goes into my stomach." The human brain is aroused as if it were about to usher in a great war. " Balzac is a coffee addict. It is said that he took the coffee pot with him and drank about 50,000 cups of high-concentration coffee in his life. He died of a heart attack, which was thought by the doctor to have a lot to do with his habit of drinking coffee. In his later years, he developed a tolerance for coffee, often complaining that he drank more and more coffee, but the effect was getting worse and worse.

The similarity between coffee and cocaine has been proved for a long time. When you wake up in the morning and drink your first cup of coffee, caffeine has a cocaine-like effect: it stimulates the abnormal secretion of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the synaptic space, triggering a sense of euphoria. Similar feelings can be achieved by amphetamine drugs such as methamphetamine and ecstasy (and ecstasy is usually mixed with caffeine) and amphetamine (an addictive stimulant and antidepressant).

? You think drinking coffee makes you feel refreshed, but maybe it's just a "ritual" self-suggestion.

The researchers also found that for many long-term coffee drinkers, coffee doesn't really lift their spirits, and drinking coffee is just a ritual.

'We live in an era where efficiency is required all the time, 'says anthropologist Krystal Dracula 39, who wrote in Scientific American. And coffee, as a spiritual stimulus, has become something we naturally want to choose when we feel inefficient and depressed. We hope that it can quickly enter the brain through the blood and help us to lift our spirits, stay alert and focused, and ensure work efficiency when we are in bad shape.

However, for those who don't drink coffee very much, consuming coffee can boost their spirits, but long-term coffee drinkers tend to overestimate the benefits of caffeine, and the coffee they drink every day doesn't have the same positive effect on the brain, says Krystal.

? You drink not only coffee, but also an attitude towards life.

According to psychology writer Krystal Dracula 39, coffee is already "a lifestyle that applies to everyone's preferences and to all lifestyles." With the changes of the times, its meaning to the individual is also changing-as a way of life, its social attribute is gradually weakening, and its private attribute is increasing.

When drinking coffee was just emerging as a trend, it was more socially related, and we seldom went to drink coffee alone. In the 17th century, cafes in Paris, Vienna and London were the bases of heated discussion among politicians, writers and philosophers. Young Hemingway visited the famous James Joyce in the cafes in Paris. discuss the work over coffee with Fitzgerald. At that time, due to the classification of disciplines and fields, it gradually formed "Writer Cafe", "journalist Cafe", "Painters Cafe", "psychologist Cafe" and so on.

But drinking coffee is becoming something more relevant to ourselves: we drink coffee less and less for other people. Please yourself, live a serious life, and drinking coffee is already a manifestation of such an attitude towards life for many people.

? Choosing what kind of coffee to drink will reveal your personality traits.

When coffee really becomes the representative of personal life style, there are interesting research conclusions on the choice of coffee category. In 2013, clinical psychologist Ramani Durvasula conducted a survey of 1000 regular coffee drinkers and found that choosing different coffee can reveal different personality traits.

People who drink black coffee are more direct, simple and practical.

People who drink special categories (such as decaf) are more control, detail-oriented, perfectionist and obsessive-compulsive.

People who drink lattes may be a little jittery and like to please others

People who drink instant coffee are more childish and like an idle life.

In fact, we don't have to pay too much attention to the personality characteristics revealed by coffee, it depends more on our habits and ways of life. As the Austrian novelist Alfred Polgar once described people who go to cafes: "most people in cafes dislike the world as strongly as their desire for it. They want to be alone, but they need company."