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Q: When college-age guys and gals are asked to describe how drunk one of their friends is, they tend to apply more moderate terms to women, even when females are heavily intoxicated, a new study reveals. 
  
 Researchers found that students are more likely to describe women's level of intoxication with words like "tipsy" or "buzzed," suggesting they've downed a moderate amount of alcohol, while men's drinking tends to be described in terms reflecting excessive consumption, such as "hammered," "trashed" or "wasted." 
  
 In other words, people of both sexes tend to express women's drinking in moderate terms. 
  
 "This is likely due to differences in social and gender norms for female drinkers compared to male drinkers," said study researcher Ash Levitt, a research scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. 
  
 The drinking culture on campus may still make it seem that it is less acceptable for women to drink as much as guysdo, and women who drink a lot may be negatively perceived by other women and men — this may be why women downplay even heavy drinking by using terms like "tipsy" to describe themselves, the researchers suggest. 
  
 The results were published online today (July 10) in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 
  
 Drinking on campus 
  
 In the study, researchers asked 145 college students to read a brief story of a situation involving four friends — two men and two women — celebrating the main character's birthday in a bar. 
  
 In each story, the researchers switched the sex of the main character, how much he or she drank, and how this person behaved. Study participants rated on a scale from 1 to 5 how well each of four moderate drinking terms (including "buzzed" and "tipsy") or 11 heavy drinking terms (including "obliterated" and "tanked") applied to the main character in the story. [7 Ways Alcohol Affects Your Health] 
  
 Participants correctly perceived whether the character was moderately versus heavily intoxicated, Levitt said. "However, moderate terms were applied more to female characters, even when they were heavily drinking," he said. 
  
 Troubling implications 
  
 If college-age women underestimate both their own and other women's level of intoxication by using moderate, and perhaps more polite, terms to describe it, "then they may downplay the risky and potentially dangerous situations that could have very real, negative consequences," Levitt said. 
  
 For example, if a woman tells her friends she's feeling "tipsy," they may think it's safe for her to get behind the wheel. Or, she may overestimate her ability to fend off a potential sexual assault. 
  
 College-age men may face a similar increase in health risks, but for different reasons, Levitt pointed out. 
  
 "The fact that men tend to gravitate toward heavy terms more than moderate terms may reflect that men are influenced by norms for college drinking, such as how much other college men drink," Levitt said. Consuming large amounts of alcohol might be seen as a normal part of a male's college experience — an expected behavior for a guy and his buddies that's considered fun. 
  
 "Such behavior is not only misguided, but it also has dangerous consequences," Levitt said, adding that alcohol poisoning and rising rates of severe drinking problems in college students — both men and women — are some troubling trends. 
  
 The new results support the findings of a previous study by the same researchers that found similar differences in thelanguage choices used by both sexes to describe themselves after drinking, Levitt said. 
  
 The earlier research showed that college-age women tended to use words such as "light-headed" or "loopy" even after drinking heavily, and that guys were more likely to describe themselves as "smashed" or "plastered," regardless of the amount of alcohol they consumed. 
  
 FollowLiveScience @livescience, Facebook &Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com . ||||| At what point would you consider someone to be just "tipsy" as opposed to "hammered" on alcohol? The answer, it turns out, depends on whether you're a man or a woman. 
  
 In a study published online Wednesday in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, psychologists found that women were more likely to describe heavily intoxicated females as just "tipsy" or "buzzed," whereas men were more likely to describe other men as "wasted" or "hammered" even if they were just moderately drunk. 
  
 The difference in word choice -- which is probably influenced by a variety of social factors -- could carry significant consequences for women, particularly those of college age, according to lead study author Ash Levitt, a social psychologist at the Research Institute on Addictions at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. 
  
 "The fact that women apply euphemistic terms such as 'tipsy' even when the target is substantially intoxicated is troubling," Levitt and colleagues wrote. "Misperceptions of others' intoxication could lead to the encouragement of poor decision-making and the downplaying of risky situations such as driving while impaired, having unplanned sexual activity, being the victim of verbal, physical, or sexual assault and experiencing other serious alcohol-related problems." 
  
 The study, which was conducted jointly by researchers at Levitt's institute, the Midwest Alcoholism Research Center and the University of Missouri-Columbia, involved 145 college undergraduate students who completed online surveys in 2007. 
  
 The questionnaires described a variety of scenarios in which a group of fictional male and female characters visited a bar to celebrate a friend's birthday. The characters were described as drinking either moderately or heavily, and as engaging in either aggressive or nonaggressive behavior. 
  
 Students were then given a list of words and phrases and asked to assign them to the appropriate character. The list included the euphemisms buzzed, light-headed, loopy, tipsy, gone, hammered, obliterated, plastered, plowed, smashed, tanked, trashed and wasted. 
  
 Study authors noted that in previous research, women were more likely to describe their personal level of drunkenness in more moderate terms than men, who tended to use stronger terms. They hypothesized that women might describe other women's drinking as being more moderate as well. 
  
 The study results generally supported this hypothesis, the authors wrote. 
  
 "Female participants applied moderate intoxication terms to moderately intoxicated characters more than male participants. Additionally, male participants applied heavy intoxication terms more to heavily intoxicated male characters compared with heavily intoxicated female characters," authors wrote. 
  
 The reason for this, authors surmised, was probably due to societal pressures. 
  
 "Although women perceive that they are expected to drink as much as men in college drinking culture, women may be negatively perceived by both male and female peers when drinking heavily," authors wrote. "This double standard may lead women to apply moderate intoxication terms to themselves and to other women to downplay their level of intoxication and not violate perceived social and gender norms." 
  
 Researchers noted several limiting factors in their study, including the fact that the test subjects were overwhelmingly white and ranged in age from 17 to 22. It was unclear whether the study results applied to non-college-age men and women, authors wrote. 
  
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A:
Just how drunk you think a person is depends on if you're a man or a woman, according to a study published in the journal Alcoholism. While men throw out words like "hammered" and "tanked" when faced with an intoxicated person, women tend to use more moderate terms. Why is word choice important? It can lead people to downplay risky and potentially dangerous situations like drunken driving and a woman's ability to fend off a sexual assault, the study said, per LiveScience. Conducted in 2007, the study asked 145 college undergrads—mainly white, aged 17 to 22—to complete online surveys that described different scenarios in which males and females went to a bar, reports the LA Times. The students then assigned the characters words like buzzed, tipsy, obliterated, or wasted. Though males generally used heavier terms, they also applied those words to drunk men more than drunk women, who may downplay their drunkenness because of social and gender norms, the study said.