@article{ref1,
title="Heart rate response to alcohol and intoxicated aggressive behavior",
journal="Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research",
year="2006",
author="Assaad, Jean-Marc and Pihl, Robert O. and Seguin, Jean R. and Nagin, Daniel and Vitaro, Frank and Tremblay, Richard E.",
volume="30",
number="5",
pages="774-782",
abstract="BACKGROUND: This study examined the elevated heart rate (HR) response to alcohol intoxication, thought to reflect an increased sensitivity to alcohol-induced reward, as a potential factor in the increased likelihood of alcohol-induced aggression. METHODS: Three groups, intoxicated high (n=37) and low (n=37) HR responders and sober controls (n=73), participated in a laboratory measure of physical aggression, the Taylor Aggression Paradigm. RESULTS: Results revealed that intoxicated high HR responders were more aggressive than the intoxicated low HR responders and sober controls. CONCLUSIONS: These findings are interpreted within a hypothetical model relating increased alcohol-induced aggression to a dysregulation in the motivational system responding to rewards.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-6008",
doi="10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00090.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00090.x"
}