Citation

Brown RA, Williams RJ. Br. J. Soc. Clin. Psychol. 1979; 18(1): 99-104.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, British Psychological Society)

DOI

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PMID

519136

Abstract

When a glass (150 ml) of a preferred/non-preferred orange drink was visible alcoholic subjects drank less than non-alcoholics. When a glass+jug (900 ml) was visible the alcoholics drank significantly more than the non-alcoholics. The cues of quantity visible and preference had an additive effect on the alcoholics' consumption. The experiment was modelled on a study by Nisbett (1968 a) concerned with cues controlling food intake in obese and non-obese subjects. An analogy was drawn between overeating by the obese and overdrinking by alcoholics.

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