Wow, really Boleo. I'm surprised by that research, and the point of it...?
I can't think of anyone I would rather socialise with when they had had a few drinks, no one. Not even the really shy people I know. I know sometimes people say 'so and so is a fun drunk' but I have been noticing this recently and it really is just so people can laugh at them and take the mick later. I have never wanted to be the person who was that 'fun'.
I was painfully shy when I was young and I think I thought alcohol helped me socialise, but I made a bit of an arse of myself so I stuck to drinking by myself, which is obviously of no social benefit.