Open AccessEffects of Acute Alcohol Consumption on Ratings of Attractiveness of Facial Stimuli: Evidence of Long-Term Encoding
Author(s) -
Lycia L. C. Parker,
Ian S. PentonVoak,
Angela Attwood,
Marcus R. Munafò
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
alcohol and alcoholism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1464-3502
pISSN - 0735-0414
DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agn065
Subject(s) - facial attractiveness , attractiveness , alcohol consumption , psychology , encoding (memory) , term (time) , alcohol , consumption (sociology) , audiology , cognitive psychology , medicine , biology , physics , psychoanalysis , sociology , social science , biochemistry , quantum mechanics
A strongly held popular belief is that alcohol increases the perceived attractiveness of members of the opposite sex. Despite this, there are no experimental data that investigate this possibility. We therefore explored the relationship between acute alcohol consumption and ratings of attractiveness of facial stimuli.
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