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The effect of alcohol and placebo on affective reactions of social drinkers to a procedure designed to induce depressive affect anxiety and hostility
Author(s) -
Pihl R. O.,
Segal Z.,
Yankofsky L.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198001)36:1<337::aid-jclp2270360148>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - hostility , psychology , affect (linguistics) , anxiety , placebo , clinical psychology , alcohol , psychotherapist , psychiatry , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , alternative medicine , communication , pathology
Randomly assigned 33 males to one of three alcohol conditions: High dose (two groups), placebo, and no‐dose. All S s after drinking performed a pseudo test of intelligence. One group of high‐dose S s received feedback that indicated an extremely good performance on the intelligence task (Incentive Gain), while all other S s received extremely poor performance scores (Incentive Loss). Analysis of pre‐post feedback scores on the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List indicated differential effect of alcohol and placebo with no change of depressive affect in the two high‐dose alcohol groups, but an increase in placebo S s Furthermore, incentive loss high‐dose S s rated themselves as significantly more intoxicated than did incentive gain high‐dose S s. The results are discussed in terms of attributions for success and failure, cognitions and depressive affect, and tension reduction models of alcoholism.