Abstract
Alcohol and its effects on aggression have been the subject of many discussions and research papers. Despite this fact, there is still a debate surrounding what it is exactly about alcohol that causes aggression. The current study sought to replicate the past finding by Bartholow and Heinz (2006) that alcohol cues without consumption increase the accessibility of aggressive thoughts, which can then influence aggressive behaviors. In the present study, participants had to complete a lexical decision task that was set up to assess whether aggressive words were detected faster in the presence of alcohol-related pictures compared to neutral pictures. The results of this study did not replicate the expected finding as only a main effect of word type was found in which participants detected neutral words faster than aggressive words. Furthermore, the study aimed to assess the role of gender stereotype acceptance levels in this association, but due to faulty design considerations, such analyses were not possible. The results are discussed in terms of the limitations of the study, and propositions for future directions are addressed.
Highlights
Alcohol and its e ects on aggression have been the subject of many discussions and research papers
The current study sought to replicate the past finding by Bartholow and Heinz (2006) that alcohol cues without consumption increase the accessibility of aggressive thoughts, which can influence aggressive behaviors
Participants had to complete a lexical decision task that was set up to assess whether aggressive words were detected faster in the presence of alcoholrelated pictures compared to neutral pictures
Summary
The objective of this project is to further the line of research on the effects of alcohol cues on aggressive behaviors by testing this relationship with sexually aggressive words and by taking into account gender stereotype beliefs. The aggressive words used by Bartholow and Heinz (2006) will be replaced by aggressive words of a sexual nature. To the current knowledge of the first author, there is no obvious reason to believe that the association between sexually aggressive words and alcohol primes should be any different than that observed between physically aggressive words and alcohol primes. It is hypothesized that participants will make faster lexical decisions to aggressive words of a sexual nature when paired with alcohol-related primes compared with neutral primes. For replication purposes, it is expected that participants will be slightly more accurate at identifying neutral words compared with aggressive words
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