@article{ref1,
title="Automatic Effects of Alcohol and Aggressive Cues on Aggressive Thoughts and Behaviors",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2010",
author="Subra, Baptiste and Muller, Dominique and Bègue, Laurent and Bushman, Brad J. and Delmas, Florian",
volume="36",
number="8",
pages="1052-1057",
abstract="Numerous studies have shown that alcohol increases aggression. In this article it is proposed that the link between alcohol and aggression is so strong that mere exposure to alcohol-related cues will automatically activate aggressive thoughts and behaviors. Two experiments tested this automaticity theory of alcohol-related aggression. In Experiment 1, participants exposed to alcohol- or weapon-related primes made faster lexical decisions about aggression-related words than did participants exposed to neutral primes. In Experiment 2, participants exposed to alcohol- or aggression-related subliminal primes were more aggressive toward the experimenter than were participants exposed to neutral subliminal primes. In both experiments, the effects of alcohol-related cues were as strong as the effect of aggression-related cues on aggressive thoughts and behaviors. People do not need to drink a drop of alcohol to become aggressive; exposure to alcohol cues is enough to automatically increase aggression.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/0146167210374725",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167210374725"
}