AN ALCOHOL MYOPIA EXPLANATION OF AGGRESSION

（订正） 描述（由申请人提供）：本重新申请的目的是扩大一系列研究酒精对判断的影响的调查。 我们建议进行一项实验室研究，在这项研究中，年轻的成年男性将观看一对夫妇在第一次 日期，然后作出判断，关于侵略的接受由该名男子在该方案。在观看录像带之前，参与者将被随机分配到四种酒精条件之一（无，安慰剂，低和中度）。情境中的内隐刺激和外显刺激会在每个条件下发生变化，从而影响某些特征的突显， 预期的结果是参与者对攻击的接受程度发生相应的变化。 本提案的主要目标是： 1.部分复制了我们实验室以前的一项研究，研究对象是本科生男性，研究表明，参与者越喝醉，他对行为暧昧的女性的攻击接受度就越高。我们推测，参与者在模棱两可的情况下的偏见和刻板印象，加上他的醉酒，导致了对这些突出特征的增加和排他性的关注。 2.通过测试我们发现的酒精近视解释与通常假设的酒精对攻击性影响的一般去抑制模型来扩展先前的研究。我们建议测试差分预测，从两个模型。如果醉酒只是抑制攻击，暴露在一个明确的信息谴责侵略应该没有什么不同的影响，并给予较高剂量的酒精的参与者将最有可能接受侵略的想法。或者，如果酒精近视是醉酒参与者接受攻击的重要决定因素，那么暴露于谴责攻击的明确信息将具有反直觉的效果，使处于该条件下的较高剂量参与者最不可能接受攻击。 3.探索在先前的研究中已经显示的两个自我调节变量的重要性，以预测对妇女的侵略：接受人际暴力和需要的主导地位;和一个变量，对酒精的期望，可能会缓和酒精近视的影响。

(Revised) DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this Re-Application is to expand a line of investigation studying the effects of alcohol on judgment. We propose to conduct a laboratory study in which young adult males will view a videotaped interaction between a couple on a first date and then make judgments regarding the acceptability of aggression by the man in the scenario. Before viewing the videotape, participants will be randomly assigned to one of four alcohol conditions (none, placebo, low and moderate). The implicit and explicit stimuli in the situation will vary in each condition to affect the salience of certain characteristics, with the expected result being corresponding changes in the participants' level of acceptance of aggression. The key objectives of the current proposal are to: 1. Partially replicate a previous study in our laboratory with undergraduate males showing that the more intoxicated the participant, the greater his acceptance of aggression towards a woman whose behavior was ambiguous. We speculated that the participants' biases and stereotypes in the ambiguous situation, coupled with his intoxication, led to an increased and exclusive focus on these salient characteristics. 2. Extend the previous research by testing an alcohol myopia explanation of our finding versus a commonly assumed general disinhibition model of alcohol's effects on aggression. We propose to test differential predictions that follow from the two models. If intoxication merely disinhibits aggression, exposure to a clear message condemning aggression should have little differential effect and the participants given the higher dose of alcohol would be MOST likely to accept the idea of aggression. Alternately, if alcohol myopia is an important determining factor in the intoxicated participant's acceptance of aggression, then exposure to a clear message condemning aggression would have the counter-intuitive effect of making the higher dose participants in that condition the LEAST likely of all to accept aggression. 3. Explore the importance of two intrapersonal moderating variables that have been shown in prior research to predict aggression against women: acceptance of interpersonal violence and need for dominance; and one variable, expectations regarding alcohol, that may moderate alcohol myopia effects.