Rationale Alcohol effects on social cognition have been studied by measuring facial emotion
recognition, empathy, Theory of Mind (ToM) and other forms of information processing …

The negative consequences of chronic alcohol abuse are well known, but heavy episodic
consumption (“binge drinking”) is also associated with significant personal and societal …

We examined the influence of alcohol on remembering an interactive hypothetical sexual
assault scenario in the laboratory using a balanced placebo design. Female participants …

Rationale Social cognition influences social interactions. Alcohol reportedly facilitates social
interactions. However, the acute effects of alcohol on social cognition are relatively poorly …

We experimentally examined the effects of alcohol consumption and exposure to misleading
postevent information on memory for a hypothetical interactive rape scenario. We used a 2 …

Objectives: This study attempted to identify relationships between alcohol consumption and
first-to-second-year student retention among college students. Methods: 820 students in …

Alcohol has been linked to both positive (eg, sociability) and negative (eg, aggression)
social outcomes, and researchers have proposed that alcohol‐induced changes in emotion …

Rationale Acute 'priming'doses of alcohol reliably increase alcohol-seeking behaviour in
social drinkers. However, the effects of the anticipated (rather than pharmacological) effects …

Objective The present study aimed to determine whether alcohol affects the emotional
modulation of cognitive control and its underlying neural mechanisms, which is pivotal to an …

Background: Research suggests that acute alcohol consumption impairs processing of
emotional faces. As emotion processing plays a key role in effective social interaction, these …