Abstract
The classic tension-reduction theory of the effects of ethanol on approach-avoidance conflict behavior involves the assumption that the drug reduces conflict by selectively weakening fear-motivated avoidance but not approach. An alternative interpretation in which alcohol is seen as reducing the capacity of the weaker of any two competitive tendencies, whether inhibitory or excitatory, to interfere with the stronger is proposed here. Data from studies of isolated avoidance gradients and from experiments on approach-avoidance and avoidance-avoidance conflicts which support an interference-reduction rather than a tension-reduction theory are reported.
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