Implicit Social Attunement and Alcohol Use: The Effect of Peer Feedback on Willingness to Drink in Social Settings.

ABSTRACT: Social context plays an important role in alcohol consumption. While most studies focus on explicit social drinking norms, this study aimed to (1) develop an implicit social attunement (ISA) task to experimentally assess how willingness to drink alcohol is affected by social alcohol drinking (SAD), social non-alcohol drinking (SNAD), and social non-drinking (SND) settings and peer feedback on willingness to drink in these settings, and (2) assess how ISA is associated with explicit social attunement, age, alcohol use and related problems. Participants (N = 506) aged 16-60 years completed the ISA task and questionnaires assessing alcohol use and alcohol use-related problems, age, and explicit social attunement online. Willingness to drink was highest in the SAD setting (SAD: M

SUBMITTER: Kroon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12698825 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature