@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol and aggression: a test of the attention-allocation model",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2007",
author="Giancola, Peter R. and Corman, Michelle D.",
volume="18",
number="7",
pages="649-655",
abstract="This article presents the first systematic test of the attention-allocation model for alcohol-related aggression. According to this model, alcohol has a &quot;myopic&quot; effect on attentional capacity that presumably facilitates aggression by focusing attention on more salient provocative, rather than less salient inhibitory, cues in hostile situations. Aggression was assessed using a laboratory task in which mild electric shocks were received from, and administered to, a fictitious opponent. Study 1 demonstrated that a moderate-load cognitive distractor suppressed aggression in intoxicated subjects (to levels even lower than those exhibited by a placebo control group). Study 2 assessed how varying the magnitude of a distracting cognitive load affected aggression in the alcohol and placebo conditions. Results indicated that the moderate-load distraction used in Study 1 (i.e., holding four elements in sequential order in working memory) suppressed aggression best. Cognitive loads of larger and smaller magnitudes were not successful in attenuating aggression.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01953.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01953.x"
}