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Anticipated Biphasic Effects of Alcohol Vary with Risk for Alcoholism: A Preliminary Report
Author(s) -
Earleywine Mitchell
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1994.tb00935.x
Subject(s) - alcohol , environmental health , psychology , psychiatry , medicine , chemistry , biochemistry
Twenty‐five sons of alcoholic fathers and 114 sons of nonalcoholic fathers reported the stimulant and sedative effects they expected alcohol would produce on both the ascending and descending limbs of the blood alcohol curve. High‐risk subjects anticipated more stimulation on the ascending limb, and more sedation on the descending limb than low‐risk subjects. These results are comparable to some studies of subjective responses to alcohol in high‐ and low‐risk men, and to previous work on risk and anticipated effects. These expectancies may contribute to risk‐related differences in responses to alcohol, as well as the development of problem drinking.