Trial reportAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2019
Acute Alcohol Intoxication Inhibits Bystander Intervention Behavior for Sexual Aggression Among Men with High Intent to Help.
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- A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship Between Alcohol and Bystander Intervention for Sexual Assault.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review Exploring Variables Related to Bystander Intervention in Sexual Violence Contexts.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- Alcohol's Effects on the Bystander Decision-Making Model: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of sex researchPooled it
- Alcohol's Effects on Bystander Intervention Strategies to Prevent Sexual Assault.Violence and victims · 2021Trial
- The Effects of Alcohol Intoxication on Perceptions of Consent and Refusal Indicators in a Fictional Alcohol-Involved Sexual Encounter.Journal of sex researchTrial
- What Do We Know About Proximal Factors Influencing Bystander Intervention? A Call for Momentary Assessment and Intervention.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Review
- Event-level effects of alcohol, cannabis, and simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use on bystander intentions in response to hypothetical situations among college women.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- Examining the Role of Alcohol and Cannabis Use Patterns in Bystander Opportunity and Behavior for Sexual and Relationship Aggression.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- Acute activation of hemichannels by ethanol leads to CaFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
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- Gender equitable attitudes as a significant mediator of bystander intentions among sexual minority adolescents.Journal of adolescence · 2023Article
- Evaluating Mentors in Violence Prevention: A Longitudinal, Multilevel Assessment of Outcome Changes.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Article
- Bystander Intoxication and Appraisal of Sexual Assault Risk: A Field Study of Emerging Adult Bargoers.Emerging adulthood (Print) · 2022Article
- Bystander intervention among secondary school pupils: Testing an augmented Prototype Willingness Model.The British journal of social psychology · 2022Article
- Web-Based Alcohol and Sexual Assault Prevention Program With Tailored Content Based on Gender and Sexual Orientation: Preliminary Outcomes and Usability Study of Positive Change (+Change).JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Understanding ethanol's acute effects on medial prefrontal cortex neural activity using state-space approaches.Neuropharmacology · 2021Review
- Bystanders to Prevent Peer Sexual Violence: Understanding Patterns of Prosocial Behavior Over Time from Early to Later Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2021Article
- Male Role Norms, Heavy Drinking, and Bystander Behavior for Sexual Aggression.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2021Article
- Alcohol Intoxication Impairs the Bystander Intervention Process in a Hypothetical Sexual Assault: A Field Investigation.Psychology of violence · 2020Article
- The "White Knight" effect: Benevolent sexism accounts for bystander intervention in party situations among high status men.Psychology of men & masculinity · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundBystander training programs aim to encourage third-party witnesses to intervene in high-risk sexual situations; however, these programs rarely focus on training bystanders to effectively intervene when intoxicated. This is not surprising due to the limited evidence on the proximal effects of alcohol on bystander intervention for sexual aggression. To this end, the aim of the present study was to test the effects of men's self-reported intent to help strangers and acute alcohol intoxication on the likelihood and speed of sexual aggression intervention.
methodsParticipants were 74 men who completed a measure of intent to help (Session 1) and were randomly assigned to consume alcohol or a no-alcohol control beverage (Session 2). Next, they engaged in a novel laboratory paradigm in which they and 4 other confederates (2 men, 2 women) watched a female confederate, who reported a strong dislike of sexual content in the media, view a sexually explicit film which they could stop at any time. Bystander intervention was operationalized as whether and how quickly participants stopped the film.
resultsFindings indicated that (i) intent to help strangers predicted faster sexual aggression intervention and (ii) intent to help strangers predicted a higher likelihood and faster rate of sexual aggression intervention among sober, but not intoxicated, men. This latter finding suggests that among men who endorsed a high willingness to intervene in sexual aggression, alcohol intoxication decreased intervention behavior.
conclusionsResults demonstrate that alcohol functions as a barrier to intervention for men who would otherwise intervene. Findings are interpreted using an integrative framework for intoxicated sexual aggression intervention and highlight the need for bystander training programs to incorporate alcohol interventions to reduce heavy drinking and psychoeducation to train bystanders how to intervene when intoxicated.
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