TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Can beauty be-er ignored? A preregistered implicit examination of the beer goggles effect
JO  - Psychology of addictive behaviors
A1  - Monk, Rebecca L.
A1  - Qureshi, Adam W.
A1  - Lee, Samantha
A1  - Darcy, Natasha
A1  - Darker, Gemma
A1  - Heim, Derek
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - The beer goggles effect refers to heightened perceptions of attractiveness resulting from intoxication. However, research in this area has produced mixed findings and has largely been reliant on self-report measures of perceived attractiveness. This study aimed to utilize an implicit measure to assess the beer goggles phenomenon in a preregistered study. One hundred twenty-nine heterosexual U.K. university students were recruited (74 female, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 24.12 years, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 9.09 years) in real-life drinking environments (classified post hoc as sober or lightly intoxicated based on Blood Alcohol Concentration [BAC]) to conduct a spatial cuing paradigm that measured the effect of distracting stimuli on task performance. Participants were asked to determine the orientation of a letter while ignoring any incidentally presented (un)attractive facial stimuli. Sober participants appeared to find attractive faces equally distracting, regardless of whether they were being cued to look toward or away from the face-a traditional attractiveness bias. Intoxicated participants, on the other hand, appeared to find attractive and unattractive faces equally distracting. <br><br>FINDINGS highlight the possibility that the beer goggles phenomenon results from a leveling of the playing field whereby attentional biases toward attractive faces are dampened as a result of light intoxication. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0893-164X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/adb0000555
ID  - ref1
ER  -