People drink soft drinks more slowly from glasses which have straight sides, when compared to those that slope outwards. That is the central conclusion of PhD research conducted by Tess Langfield, and published in PLoS One. Tess presented this research on Friday 7th September at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Health Psychology annual conference in Gateshead, which also earned her a prize from BPS for her award winning abstract. Click below to access the full paper.

Impact of glass shape on time taken to drink a soft drink: A laboratory-based experiment. Langfield T, Pechey R, Pilling M, Marteau TM. PLoS ONE
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