Commentary on Kumar et al.: The importance of conceptual clarity and alignment between constructs and measurements in social cognition research in addiction.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Social cognition in Korsakoff's syndrome: A meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026
   Pooled it
2. The impact of empathy on drinking motives, craving, and drink orders: An experimental study.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025
   Trial
3. Alcohol's acute effects on emotion recognition and empathy in heavy-drinking young adults.Scientific reports · 2025
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4. Modeling social cognition in alcohol use disorder: lessons from schizophrenia.Psychopharmacology · 2025
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Corrections and comments

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  Meta-analysis of associations between empathy and alcohol use and problems in clinical and non-clinical samples.2022

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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