Trial reportJournal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England)2019
Effects of acute alcohol consumption on emotion recognition in social alcohol drinkers.
Trial report in Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Alcohol's acute effects on emotion recognition and empathy in heavy-drinking young adults.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Effects of acute alcohol consumption on emotion recognition in high and low trait aggressive drinkers.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2020Trial
- Effects of alcohol on emotion recognition: An alcohol-administration trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
- Chronic Alcohol Use and Accelerated Brain Aging: Shared Mechanisms with Alzheimer's Disease Pathophysiology.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The Dopamine System in Mediating Alcohol Effects in Humans.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Gene-environment interactions between CREB1 and childhood maltreatment on aggression among male Chinese adolescents.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Does alcohol affect emotional face processing via interoceptive pathways?Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Tackling heterogeneity: Individual variability of emotion decoding deficits in severe alcohol use disorder.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Article
- Facial emotion recognition accuracy in women with symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome: Reduced fear and disgust perception.Women's health (London, England)Observational
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Abstract
backgroundResearch suggests that acute alcohol consumption alters recognition of emotional expressions. Extending this work, we investigated the effects of alcohol on recognition of six primary expressions of emotion.
methodsWe conducted two studies using a 2 × 6 experimental design with a between-subjects factor of drink (alcohol, placebo) and a within-subjects factor of emotion (anger, disgust, sadness, surprise, happiness, fear). Study one ( n = 110) was followed by a direct replication study ( n = 192). Participants completed a six alternative forced choice emotion recognition task following consumption of 0.4 g/kg alcohol or placebo. Dependent variables were recognition accuracy (i.e. hits) and false alarms.
resultsThere was no clear evidence of differences in recognition accuracy between groups ( ps > .58). In study one, there were more false alarms for anger in the alcohol compared to placebo group ( n = 52 and 56, respectively; t(94.6) = 2.26, p = .024, d = .44) and fewer false alarms for happiness ( t(106) = -2.42, p = .017, d = -.47). However, no clear evidence for these effects was found in study two (alcohol group n = 96, placebo group n = 93, ps > .22). When the data were combined we observed weak evidence of an effect of alcohol on false alarms of anger ( t(295) = 2.25, p = .025, d = .26).
conclusionsThese studies find weak support for biased anger perception following acute alcohol consumption in social consumers, which could have implications for alcohol-related aggression. Future research should investigate the robustness of this effect, particularly in individuals high in trait aggression.
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