Trial reportJournal of abnormal psychology2015
Extraversion and the Rewarding Effects of Alcohol in a Social Context.
Trial report in Journal of abnormal psychology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 100 citations in OpenAlex.
- Self-management with alcohol over lifespan: psychological mechanisms, neurobiological underpinnings, and risk assessment.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- The impact of alcohol consumption on implicit racial bias.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Trial
- Differential effects of UPPS-P impulsivity on subjective alcohol response and craving: An experimental test of acquired preparedness.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Trial
- Using Placebo Beverages in Group Alcohol Studies.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Trial
- A Bayesian Learning Model for Joint Risk Prediction of Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorders.Statistics in medicine · 2026Article
- Social facilitation as a risk factor for alcohol misuse in young adults: study protocol for a prospective alcohol administration study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of alcohol on brain response in social context: A hyperscanning alcohol-administration trial.NeuroImage · 2025Article
- The Effects of Alcohol in Groups of Heavy Drinking Young Adults: A Multi-Modal Investigation of Alcohol Responses in a Laboratory Social Setting.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Longitudinal patterns of alcohol and cannabis use among US young adults: Correlates and implications for problematic health outcomes.Addictive behaviors · 2024Article
- Event-level risk for negative alcohol consequences in emerging adults: The role of affect, motivation, and context.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Article
- Pregaming potentiates risk between UPPS-P impulsivity and day-level drinking behavior: A test of person-environment transactions theory.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Bridging the Gap: A Holistic View of Personality Factors in Individuals With and Without Alcohol Use.Cureus · 2024Review
- Alternative beliefs in psychedelic drug users.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Associations Between Social Context and Mood During Alcohol Consumption in Young Adult Smokers.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Observational
- Beer Goggles or Liquid Courage? Alcohol, Attractiveness Perceptions, and Partner Selection Among Men.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Article
- Predictors of Hangover Frequency and Severity: The Impact of Alcohol Consumption, Mental Resilience, Personality, Lifestyle, Coping and Mood.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Associations of state and trait empathy with daily alcohol use.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Social incentives are stronger predictors of drinking decisions than alcohol incentives in young adults: The role of alcohol use disorder.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- A social contextual review of the effects of alcohol on emotion.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2022Article
- The Association of Personality Traits and Parameters of Glycemic Regulation in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Patients Using isCGM.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
The personality trait of extraversion has been linked to problematic drinking patterns. Researchers have long hypothesized that such associations are attributable to increased alcohol-reward sensitivity among extraverted individuals, and surveys suggest that individuals high in extraversion gain greater mood enhancement from alcohol than those low in extraversion. Surprisingly, however, alcohol administration studies have not found individuals high in extraversion to experience enhanced mood following alcohol consumption. Of note, prior studies have examined extraverted participants-individuals who self-identify as being highly social-consuming alcohol in isolation. In the present research, we used a group drinking paradigm to examine whether individuals high in extraversion gained greater reward from alcohol than did those low in extraversion and, further, whether a particular social mechanism (partners’ Duchenne smiling) might underlie alcohol reward sensitivity among extraverted individuals. Social drinkers (n 720) consumed a moderate dose of alcohol, placebo, or control beverage in groups of 3 over the course of 36 min. This social interaction was video-recorded, and Duchenne smiling was coded using the Facial Action Coding System. Results indicated that participants high in extraversion reported significantly more mood enhancement from alcohol than did those low in extraversion. Further, mediated moderation analyses focusing on Duchenne smiling of group members indicated that social processes fully and uniquely accounted for alcohol reward-sensitivity among individuals high in extraversion. Results provide initial experimental evidence that individuals high in extraversion experience increased mood-enhancement from alcohol and further highlight the importance of considering social processes in the etiology of alcohol use disorder.
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