Acute effects of alcohol on error-elicited negative affect during a cognitive control task.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Alcohol intoxication can dampen negative affective reactions to stressors. Recently, it has been proposed that these acute anxiolytic effects of alcohol may extend to dampening of negative affective reactions to error commission during cognitive control tasks. Nonetheless, empirical verification of this claim is lacking.

Objectives

Test the acute effect of alcohol on negative affective reactions to errors during an effort-demanding cognitive control task.

Methods

Healthy, young adult social drinkers (N = 96 [49 women], 21-36 years old) were randomly assigned to consume alcohol (0.80 g/kg; n = 33 [15 female]), active placebo (0.04 g/kg; n = 33 [18 women]), or a non-alcoholic control beverage (n = 30 [16 women]) before completing the Eriksen flanker task. Corr

SUBMITTER: Cofresi RU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7572864 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature