Trial reportJournal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England)2020
Effects of acute alcohol consumption on emotion recognition in high and low trait aggressive drinkers.
Trial report in Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Effects of acute alcohol consumption on hostile attribution bias towards emotional facial expressions and implicit approach/avoidance tendencies.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2026Trial
- 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
- Effects of alcohol on emotion recognition: An alcohol-administration trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
- The Dopamine System in Mediating Alcohol Effects in Humans.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- The role of state and trait anxiety in the processing of facial expressions of emotion.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Acute Alcohol Intake Affects Internal Additive Noise and the Perceptual Template in Visual Perception.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundResearch suggests that acute alcohol consumption impairs processing of emotional faces. As emotion processing plays a key role in effective social interaction, these impairments may be one mechanism by which alcohol changes social behaviour. This study investigated the effect of individual differences on this relationship by comparing emotion recognition performance after acute alcohol consumption in individuals with high and low trait aggression.
methodsRegular non-dependent drinkers, either high or low in trait aggression participated in a double-blind placebo-controlled experiment (
resultsThere was evidence of poorer global emotion recognition after alcohol. In addition, there was evidence of poorer sensitivity to sadness and fear after alcohol. There was also evidence for a reduced bias towards happiness following alcohol and weak evidence for an increased bias towards sadness.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that alcohol impairs global emotion recognition. They also highlight a reduced ability to detect sadness and fearful facial expressions. As sadness and fear are cues of submission and distress (i.e. function to curtail aggression), failure to successfully detect these emotions when intoxicated may increase the likelihood of aggressive responding. This coupled with a reduced bias towards seeing happiness may collectively contribute to aggressive behaviour.
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