Effects of acute alcohol consumption on hostile attribution bias towards emotional facial expressions and implicit approach/avoidance tendencies
These findings suggest that alcohol increases hostile judgements of ambiguous emotional faces. They also suggest that happy faces are perceived to be more hostile following alcohol. As an increased HAB when processing socially relevant information increases aggressive responding, this increased hostile perception of happy faces following alcohol may increase the likelihood of aggressive behaviour.
Authors
- Marcus R. Munafò (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4049-993X)
- Angela Attwood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3696-4349)
- I. M. Penton-Voak
- Andrew P. R. Eastwood
Institutions
- University of the West of England (GB)
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (GB)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- MRC Epidemiology Unit (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Psychopharmacology
- Published
- 2026-03-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811251408743
- Primary Topic
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00