Catherine Stanger, Molly A B Anderson, Haiyi Xie, Tonychris Nnaka, Alan J Budney, Tianchen Qian, Jamie R T Yap, Inbal Nahum-Shani
{"title":"Momentary mindfulness versus distraction coping messages to reduce cannabis craving among young adults: A microrandomized trial.","authors":"Catherine Stanger, Molly A B Anderson, Haiyi Xie, Tonychris Nnaka, Alan J Budney, Tianchen Qian, Jamie R T Yap, Inbal Nahum-Shani","doi":"10.1037/adb0001029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Rates of problematic cannabis use among young adults are high and increasing. Craving for cannabis varies throughout the day and is an important risk factor for cannabis use, yet no studies to date have tested interventions offered at the moment craving is experienced in the natural environment.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study used an efficient and innovative microrandomized trial design to test two distinct types of coping messages (mindfulness strategy vs. distraction strategy) offering brief coping strategies when moderate to severe craving was reported via ecological momentary assessment (EMA).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Young adults who regularly use cannabis (<i>N</i> = 53) were readily engaged in this 4-week intervention, and EMA completion was high throughout, demonstrating excellent feasibility of this approach. However, results indicated that coping messages did not reduce craving at the next EMA relative to control (thank you) messages, with no significant change in efficacy over time. Furthermore, exploratory analyses found that neither mindfulness nor distraction resulted in reduced craving relative to the control message.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Despite this outcome, this method of testing digital interventions targeting momentary risks for substance use such as craving holds promise for rapidly and efficiently screening a wide variety of intervention strategies for inclusion in future just-in-time adaptive interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra N Brockdorf, Rebecca L Brock, Timothy D Nelson, David DiLillo
{"title":"From sleep to sip? Examining a daily model of sleep and trauma-related drinking among sexual violence survivors.","authors":"Alexandra N Brockdorf, Rebecca L Brock, Timothy D Nelson, David DiLillo","doi":"10.1037/adb0001039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Alcohol misuse is common among women who have experienced sexual violence and is often attributed to the self-medication model of alcohol use to alleviate posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Despite the proximal theorized role of PTSD symptoms, less attention has been given to daily associations between PTSD symptoms, trauma-related drinking to cope (TRD) motives, and ensuing alcohol use by survivors. Moreover, despite indications that poor sleep impacts affective functioning and may exacerbate daily PTSD symptoms, the role of sleep duration and quality in drinking to cope with PTSD symptoms is not well understood. This study examined an integrated model testing whether shorter sleep duration and poorer sleep quality predict greater daily PTSD symptoms and, in turn, greater alcohol use later that day through TRD motives.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants were 82 cisgender women (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 22.8, 73.2% White, 13.4% Hispanic/Latina, 56.1% heterosexual, 30.5% bisexual) who had experienced sexual violence. Participants completed ecological momentary assessment measures and wore actigraphs for 3 weeks.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Contrary to hypotheses, shorter-than-usual sleep duration did not predict greater alcohol use quantity via daily PTSD symptoms and TRD motives. However, poorer-than-usual sleep quality predicted greater PTSD symptoms that day, which in turn predicted greater same-day TRD motives.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings underscore the importance of sleep quality in heightened PTSD symptoms but suggest survivors did not drink more to alleviate trauma-related distress. Future research should examine other drinking motives among survivors to inform proximal interventions to prevent alcohol misuse. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internalizing symptoms, negative urgency, and coping motives: Potential pathways to alcohol consequences.","authors":"Abigail McDonald, Will Corbin","doi":"10.1037/adb0001038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Building upon prior research, the present study tested coping motives as a mediator of relations between both negative urgency and internalizing symptoms (depression, anxiety, and stress), and alcohol-related consequences using longitudinal data. We also tested negative urgency as a moderator of prospective relations between specific internalizing symptoms and alcohol-related consequences.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The study utilized data from a longitudinal study of young adults (<i>N</i> = 448; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 22.27, <i>SD</i> = 1.25). Participants (56.5% male) were evaluated at baseline and at 12-month and 24-month follow-ups. Mood, impulsivity, coping motives, and alcohol consequences were assessed at baseline, and motives and consequences were assessed at follow-ups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Prospective indirect effects of internalizing symptoms and negative urgency on alcohol consequences through coping motives were not observed. However, cross-sectional post hoc analyses indicated that higher levels of internalizing and negative urgency were indirectly associated with greater alcohol consequences through coping motives, with similar patterns observed for depression, anxiety, and stress. Although support was found for mediated effects in the cross-sectional model, no evidence was found for negative urgency moderating the impact of internalizing, stress, anxiety, or depression on alcohol consequences in either cross-sectional or longitudinal models.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings provide cross-sectional but not longitudinal support for coping motives as a potential mechanism through which a broad range of internalizing symptoms are associated with alcohol consequences. Findings did not support interactions between negative urgency and internalizing symptoms. The results highlight the need for further exploration of mediated effects using ecological momentary assessments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zoé Bollen, Nicolas Masson, Arthur Pabst, Pierre Maurage
{"title":"Stay focused! Exploring the compulsive nature of alcohol-related attentional bias in severe alcohol use disorder.","authors":"Zoé Bollen, Nicolas Masson, Arthur Pabst, Pierre Maurage","doi":"10.1037/adb0001019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Prominent models postulate that alcohol-related attentional bias (AB), emerging from the overactivation of the reward system, plays a key role in severe alcohol use disorder (sAUD) and is independent from voluntary control. We determined whether AB is indeed compulsive or can be modulated by the control/inhibition system.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Patients with sAUD (17 women, 13 men, mean age of 47, White) and matched healthy controls (16 women, 14 men, mean age of 44, White) performed a visual probe task with behavioral (reaction time) and eye-tracking (first fixation location and duration, second fixation location, dwell time) measures. They also performed an avoidance task, requiring to focus on a target by voluntarily inhibiting eye movements toward alcohol/nonalcohol/nonappetitive distractors and measuring overt (break frequency) and covert (fixational eye movements) attentional processes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients with sAUD exhibited an avoidance AB indexed by (a) reduced attentional resources dedicated to alcohol-related stimuli, namely, reduced dwell time (<i>p</i> = .040) and second fixation (<i>p</i> = .001) toward these stimuli; (b) increased inhibitory processes, namely, easier inhibition of saccades toward alcohol measured by lower break frequency (<i>p</i> < .001); and (c) covert eye movements posited further away from alcohol.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In contradiction with theoretical models, our two tasks did not show any AB toward alcohol in sAUD. Instead, patients exhibited an avoidance AB indexed by increased inhibitory processes as well as reduced overt and covert attentional resources dedicated to alcohol-related stimuli. These results question the theoretical and clinical role of AB, as measured through reliable eye-tracking tasks, in sAUD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katie P Himes, Andrew K Littlefield, Kenneth R Conner, Courtney L Bagge
{"title":"Motives for alcohol use across the 24 hours prior to a suicide attempt.","authors":"Katie P Himes, Andrew K Littlefield, Kenneth R Conner, Courtney L Bagge","doi":"10.1037/adb0001033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Acute alcohol use is a risk factor for suicidal behavior. This study examined sources of variance (between-person, within-person) in hour-to-hour self-reported alcohol consumption and drinking motives and assessed the interrelations of different motives for alcohol use across the 24 hr preceding a suicide attempt.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This multisite study utilized interview data obtained retrospectively from adult patients hospitalized following a suicide attempt. The current analysis examined participants (<i>n</i> = 110) who reported using alcohol within 24 hr of the attempt (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 39.59; 48.2% female, 72.7% White; 4.5% Hispanic/Latinx). Participants reported suicide-facilitative drinking motives using three items from the Suicide Facilitative Drinking Motives Scale and reported typical, nonfacilitative motives using three items from the Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised. Data were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most variance in reported drinking motives occurred between participants, though there was substantial within-person variability. Within-person increases in alcohol use were associated with suicide-facilitative motives for alcohol use, but not nonfacilitative motives. Social and enhancement motives were consistently negatively associated with facilitative motives, while coping motives were positively associated with reported drinking to reduce fear regarding suicide.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results suggest the assessment of motives for alcohol use in at-risk patients may provide key clinical targets (i.e., the function of drinking) for preventing suicidal behavior. When alcohol is consumed for coping motives or used to facilitate suicidal behavior, it is particularly concerning and warrants clinical intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142337158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Kathryn McHugh,Megan D McCarthy,Juliette A Bichon,Minh Dung Nguyen,Elizabeth K Kneeland,Robyn A Ellis,Daniel G Dillon,Garrett M Fitzmaurice
{"title":"Effects of behavioral interventions on stress reactivity in adults with substance use disorders.","authors":"R Kathryn McHugh,Megan D McCarthy,Juliette A Bichon,Minh Dung Nguyen,Elizabeth K Kneeland,Robyn A Ellis,Daniel G Dillon,Garrett M Fitzmaurice","doi":"10.1037/adb0001032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001032","url":null,"abstract":"OBJECTIVEHeightened reactivity to stress is associated with poor treatment outcome in people with substance use disorders (SUDs). Behavioral strategies can reduce stress reactivity; however, these strategies are understudied in people with SUDs. The objective of this study was to test the effect of two behavioral strategies (cognitive reappraisal and affect labeling) on stress reactivity in people with SUDs.METHODTreatment-seeking adults with SUDs (N = 119) were randomized to receive brief training in cognitive reappraisal, affect labeling, or a psychoeducational control, followed by a standardized stress induction. Markers of stress reactivity were collected before and following stress induction and included self-reported negative affect and substance craving, as well as salivary cortisol, and skin conductance response.RESULTSAnalyses of covariance did not indicate a significant effect of treatment condition on negative affect, cortisol, or skin conductance response. Participants in the affect labeling condition had greater increase in craving than those in the cognitive reappraisal condition; neither condition differed from control.CONCLUSIONSResults indicated that, although participants were able to implement behavioral skills following a brief training, training condition did not modify stress reactivity, on average, relative to control. Future directions include consideration of individual differences in response to training and determination of whether higher \"dosing\" of skills via multiple sessions or extended practice is needed to influence stress reactivity in people with SUDs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142201174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simon T van Baal,Piotr Bogdanski,Araanya Daryanani,Lukasz Walasek,Philip Newall
{"title":"The lived experience of gambling-related harm in natural language.","authors":"Simon T van Baal,Piotr Bogdanski,Araanya Daryanani,Lukasz Walasek,Philip Newall","doi":"10.1037/adb0001030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001030","url":null,"abstract":"OBJECTIVEGambling-related harms can have a significant negative impact on disordered gamblers, lower risk gamblers, and affected others. Yet, most disordered and lower risk gamblers will never seek formal treatment, often due to the stigma and shame surrounding gambling. Online self-help forums are a popular alternative way for gamblers to anonymously seek help from others. Analysis of these interactions can provide a deeper understanding of gambling than more commonly used research methodologies.METHODIn the present study, we leverage recent developments in natural language processing to analyze posts on a U.K.-based online self-help gambling forum. Using correlated topic modeling, we canvass the various types of discussions among forum members. We also combine this approach with semantic similarity analysis based on sentence embeddings, to map first the posts, and then the 10 topics, onto six previously established gambling-related harm domains.RESULTSThe topic modeling revealed a cluster of discussions of many negative emotions, a topic regarding the positive emotions underlying the potential for change, a distinct topic regarding gambling's relationship harms, and numerous environmental factors that contributed to harm. Emotional/psychological and health harms were most strongly associated with users' posts, illustrating the multidimensionality of severe gambling-related harm.CONCLUSIONSOur results reveal the co-occurrence of different harms, such as the frequent mentions of financial harms and concomitant emotional/psychological harms. The analysis of the lived experiences of gambling-related harm in natural language represents a useful tool for gambling research and can provide a different perspective to inform policy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142201175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kym R Ahrens, Ahnalee M Brincks, Kevin P Haggerty, Cari A McCarty, Shemonta Dean, Katie M Albertson, Stephanie R Cross, Ted Ryle, Alicia Wun
{"title":"Designing and piloting a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial for opioid prevention among youth in the legal system.","authors":"Kym R Ahrens, Ahnalee M Brincks, Kevin P Haggerty, Cari A McCarty, Shemonta Dean, Katie M Albertson, Stephanie R Cross, Ted Ryle, Alicia Wun","doi":"10.1037/adb0001025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Youth in the legal system are vulnerable to initiation and escalation of opioid use. The transition period during which a young person is released from the institutional setting to the community is a critical window of opportunity for preventive intervention targeting the uptake and intensification of opioid and other drug use. Adaptive preventive interventions are a promising approach to systematically varying the timing and intensity of substance use preventive interventions for these youth.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This pilot study of 30 youth (97% young men; 37% White; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 18.34, <i>SD</i> = 1.84) examined the feasibility and acceptability of adaptive and nonadaptive preventive interventions that incorporate components of the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach with Assertive Continuing Care, Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Treatment, and Motivational Interviewing using the Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial study design. Participants completed assessments at baseline, 1-month postrelease, and 2-months postrelease.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Enrollment rate was 65%. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of enrolled youth had substance use disorder at intake. Moreover, 60% of enrolled participants completed the 2-month postrelease follow-up assessment. Participants reported high satisfaction with the interventionist interactions, and 95% indicated they would recommend the program to other youth. The pilot study revealed the need for several adaptations to study and intervention protocols.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This pilot study provides evidence of the feasibility of a research-practice partnership with state juvenile rehabilitation facilities, successful recruitment of youth involved in the legal system, and feasibility and acceptability of adaptive preventive interventions spanning pre- and post-release for legal system-involved youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social decision making in binge drinking: An exploration through moral dilemmas.","authors":"Mado Gautier,Séverine Lannoy,Pierre Maurage","doi":"10.1037/adb0001027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001027","url":null,"abstract":"OBJECTIVEThe continuum hypothesis proposes that binge drinking and severe alcohol use disorder (SAUD) share qualitatively similar cognitive and emotional impairments. In SAUD, these deficits have a demonstrated impact on social decision making, resulting in a utilitarian bias. Namely, when confronted with moral dilemmas, patients with SAUD tend to focus on the consequences of their actions rather than on social norms. However, social decision-making abilities remain unexplored in binge drinking. We offered the first insights on the generalization of the continuum hypothesis to social decision making, through a multinomial processing tree model applied to moral dilemmas, the \"CNI model\" of moral decision making.METHODWe compared 35 binge drinkers (20 females) and 36 light drinkers (21 females) on a battery of 48 moral dilemmas involving interpersonal relations from the CNI model, through multinomial modeling analyses. In each dilemma, participants were asked if they would perform the described action, generating individual scores for sensitivity to consequences, sensitivity to norms, and inaction tendency.RESULTSThe statistical model related to the CNI approach fits the data well. Binge drinkers and controls did not differ regarding their sensitivity to consequences nor their sensitivity to moral norms, and both groups displayed an equal inaction tendency in response to moral dilemmas.CONCLUSIONSWe provided insights to better understand the specific (socio)cognitive domains impaired in subclinical populations with alcohol use disorder. We showed preserved social decision making in binge drinking, which suggests that the continuum hypothesis documented for classical neurocognitive functions does not extend to complex social abilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142201176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kasey G Creswell, Kirk Warren Brown, Sarah L Pedersen
{"title":"The impact of alcohol consumption on implicit racial bias.","authors":"Kasey G Creswell, Kirk Warren Brown, Sarah L Pedersen","doi":"10.1037/adb0000981","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0000981","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Here, in more than triple the number of alcohol participants than the largest prior study, we tested whether an intoxicating dose of alcohol (target breath alcohol concentration of .08%) exacerbated implicit racial bias. Young adults who identified as races other than Black or African American (<i>N</i> = 207) were randomly assigned to consume an alcoholic or placebo beverage and completed the race-based Implicit Association Test (race IAT) testing implicit preference for White (vs. Black) individuals [or, conversely, bias against Black (vs. White) individuals].</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All participants demonstrated an implicit racial bias (i.e., linking traditionally Black names with negative/unpleasant words), with no difference in this implicit racial bias across beverage conditions. Specifically, there were no differences between alcohol participants' race IAT <i>D</i> scores (<i>M</i> = 0.55, <i>SD</i> = 0.39), and placebo participants' race IAT <i>D</i> scores (<i>M</i> = 0.59, <i>SD</i> = 0.35), <i>b</i> = 0.05, 95%CI [-0.07, 0.18], <i>p</i> = .422.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings challenge theories and prior studies suggesting that alcohol increases implicit racial bias. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"688-695"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11190038/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138832363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}