Alcohol-related image priming and aggression in adolescents aged 11–14

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• 作者：Stephen L. Brown ; Sarah M. Coyne ; Alex ; ra Barlow ; Pamela Qualter
• 关键词：Alcohol ; Aggression ; Adolescents ; Priming
• 刊名：Addictive Behaviors
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：August 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：35
• 期：8
• 页码：791-794
• 全文大小：199 K

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In adults, alcohol-related stimuli prime aggressive responding without ingestion or belief of ingestion. This represents either experiential or socially-and culturally-mediated learning. Using a laboratory-based competitive aggression paradigm, we replicated adult findings in 103 11–14 year old adolescents below the legal UK drinking age. Using a two-independent group design, priming with alcohol-related imagery led participants to deliver louder noise punishments in a competition task than priming with beverage-related images. This effect was stronger in participants scoring low on an internalization measure. Priming effects in relatively alcohol-naïve participants could constitute evidence of socio-cultural transmission of scripts linking alcohol use and aggression. The enhanced effect in lower internalization scorers suggests that alcohol priming might undermine behavioral inhibition processes in otherwise stable adolescents.