Having a drink might not just give men the courage to start off a conversation, but may also help inspire their wit and verbal creativity, a new study has revealed.

Researchers in the U.S. found that men who had taken enough alcohol to get mildly drunk solved more problems demanding verbal resourcefulness than sober men could, and did it more quickly, the Daily Mail reported. Intuitive insights into tricky word association problems came more often to men who were intoxicated but not legally drunk, said psychology graduate student Andrew Jarosz. Jarosz and his colleagues from the University of Illinois at Chicago propose that a modest alcoholic high loosens a person's focus of attention.