Trial reportPsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2016
Social imitation of alcohol consumption and ingratiation motives in young adults.
Trial report in Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Alcohol and common ground: The effects of intoxication on linguistic markers of shared understanding during social exchange.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Trial
- Implicit leadership and multidimensional imitation: a structural pathway model among Chinese university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Social influence increases the value and consumption of alcohol in the laboratory.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- Social Influence and Problematic Drinking: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Are you feeling what I'm feeling? Momentary interactions between personal and perceived peer subjective response predict craving and continued drinking in young adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Adolescents' Sexual Orientation and Behavioral and Neural Reactivity to Peer Acceptance and Rejection: The Moderating Role of Family Support.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Sextual Intercourse: Considering Social-Cognitive Predictors and Subsequent Outcomes of Sexting Behavior in Adulthood.Archives of sexual behavior · 2019Article
- Suggestibility is associated with alcohol self-administration, subjective alcohol effects, and self-reported drinking behavior.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2019Article
- A Review of Developmental Considerations in Human Laboratory Alcohol Research.Current addiction reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Across 2 studies we tested the hypothesis that social ingratiation motives may be an important factor explaining social imitation of alcohol consumption. In Study 1, participants drank alcohol with a heavy versus light drinking confederate under conditions that were designed to heighten or reduce (participants believed they would not be judged) motivation for ingratiation. In Study 2 we manipulated the degree to which participants believed they had already successfully ingratiated themselves with a heavy or no (alcohol) drinking confederate. In Study 1, participants' alcohol consumption was most strongly influenced by the confederate's drinking behavior when they believed that they would later be judged by the confederate. In Study 2, participants' alcohol consumption was influenced by the confederate's drinking behavior and this effect was particularly pronounced if participants were unsure if the confederate had accepted them. The desire for social ingratiation may in part explain why people imitate the drinking behavior of those around them. (PsycINFO Database Record
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