ALCOHOL, AROUSAL AND WOMEN'S JUDGEMENTS OF VICTIMIZATION

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The purpose of the study is to evaluate how alcohol intoxication and sexual arousal influence judgments about male-female interactions and other social situations. 60 subjects will be recruited to this study. The proposed research aims to gather pilot data regarding the impact of two significant risk factors for adult sexual victimization, childhood sexual abuse history and alcohol intoxication, on a third, social cognitions about sexual risk taking. Although these variables have consistently been shown to be retrospectively associated with increased risk of sexual victimization in adulthood, they have not been examined in combination within an experimental paradigm. By analyzing the relation between victimization history and social cognitions within the context of a modified balanced placebo alcohol administration study, this translational research project represents a unique synthesis of predictor variables and a novel means of understanding their interactions. Ultimately, it is hoped that the data collected in this project will serve as preliminary data for extramural applications to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that will investigate the relations among these variables in greater depth.