The impact of alcohol consumption on implicit racial bias.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Researchers and theorists studying intergroup relations have been interested in the impact of alcohol on interracial responding. Theories predict that alcohol will exacerbate expressions of racial bias by increasing reliance on stereotypes and/or by decreasing controlled processing and self-monitoring. Prior studies testing these theories have often examined alcohol's effects on implicit (i.e., indirect) measures of racial bias with inconsistent results. However, previous research in this area has suffered from several methodological limitations, including small sample sizes and doses of alcohol that may have been too low to induce substantial intoxication.

Method

Here, in more than triple the number of alcohol participants than the largest prior study, we tested w

SUBMITTER: Creswell KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11190038 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature