Faculty Articles
Social Influences on Alcohol Consumption by Black and White Males
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1982
Publication Title
Addictive Behaviors
Volume
7
Issue/Number
1
First Page
87
ISSN
0306-4603
Last Page
91
Abstract/Excerpt
Thirty-two black and 32 white male normal drinkers participated in a beer taste test either simultaneously (co-action condition) with a heavy drinking black or white experimental accomplice or white the accomplice completed an art rating task (control observer condition). Subjects in the co-action condition drank significantly more beer (p < .001) than subjects in the control observer condition, regardless of their race or the race of the accomplice. Subjects' post-experimental questionnaire answers indicated they did not perceive themselves to be in competition with the accomplice. The mechanism underlying the robust co-action facilitation effect on drinking, now demonstrated in several studies and extended to black males in the present study, remains unexplained.
DOI
10.1016/0306-4603(82)90031-4
NSUWorks Citation
Watson, D. W.,
Sobell, M. B.
(1982). Social Influences on Alcohol Consumption by Black and White Males. Addictive Behaviors, 7(1), 87-91.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/101
