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Women's yielding to social group pressure as a function of alcohol and type of pressure
Author(s) -
GUSTAFSON ROLAND
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1992.tb00816.x
Subject(s) - placebo , alcohol , psychology , feeling , alcohol intoxication , peer pressure , social psychology , poison control , clinical psychology , injury prevention , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , alternative medicine , environmental health , pathology
Thirty‐six women participated in an experiment exploring whether alcohol intoxication facilitates yielding to social persuasive information. Subjects were randomly assigned to either an Alcohol, a Placebo, or a Control Group. The alcohol dose was 1.0 ml of 100% alcohol/kg body weight. Subjects first estimated the length of a line and were then given faked feedback from either a male or a female peer reference group. This procedure was repeated 60 times. Analyses indicated that the Placebo group yielded more often than the Alcohol group irrespective of type of feedback. A measure of locus of control indicated no significant mean differences as a function of alcohol group but correlations between externality and yielding were strong for placebo subjects, that is, externally oriented placebo subjects yielded more than internally oriented placebo subjects. This was discussed in terms of feelings of uneasiness caused by the discrepancy between feelings of intoxication and information about drink content.