Mixing Misery and Gin: The Effect of Alcohol Administration on Ostracism Response.

ABSTRACT: Williams's need-threat model proposes that ostracism responses are reflexive and, because of their evolutionary significance, difficult to diminish. Alcohol is widely consumed in social contexts and for reasons of coping with social stress, and major theories of alcohol propose that intoxication disrupts cognitive appraisal of environmental threats, leading to stress relief. Surprisingly, though, no well-powered experimental research has examined the impact of alcohol intoxication on distress from social ostracism. In three studies across two independent laboratories (N = 438), participants were randomly assigned to receive either an alcoholic or nonalcoholic (i.e., no-alcohol control or placebo) beverage and were exposed to an ostracism (or social inclusion) manipulation. Results,

SUBMITTER: Fairbairn CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8854451 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature