Abstract
Okulitch and Marlatt (1972) have argued that alcoholics show a differential tolerance for punishment relative to nonalcoholics. However, the studies purporting to support this assertion failed to control for the effects of social factors on alcoholics' tolerance of punishment. The present study compared alcoholics' and nonalcoholics' tolerance for punishment under two conditions. In the private condition, subjects were led to believe that no one would know how they responded to a task involving punishment. In the public condition, it was made clear that the subjects' responses would be known to the experimenter. In the public condition, alcoholic subjects made more punished responses than nonalcoholic subjects. In the private condition, neither group responded in the presence of punishment.
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