NCJ Number
195536
Journal
Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume: 7 Issue: 3 Dated: May-June 2002 Pages: 293-312
Date Published
June 2002
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This is an overview of recent research on alcohol and aggression.
Abstract
The paper examines major experimental laboratory paradigms used in research on the social factors and psychological processes that elicit aggression among healthy persons under conditions of acute alcohol intoxication and sobriety. It also presents a newly developed experimental laboratory procedure that can reliably produce disjunctively escalated aggressive responding--the triggered displaced aggression paradigm (TDAP)--and discusses its potential for revealing more about the mechanisms involved in alcohol-induced aggression. The paper discusses the most common laboratory paradigms for investigating the impact of alcohol consumption on aggressive behavior. Evidence argues for the utility and validity of these procedures. The paper also examines two theoretically important situational variables on alcohol-induced aggression: provocation and frustration. It introduces the TDAP and describes its potential use for explaining the disjunctively escalated aggressive actions often seen in the response of intoxicated persons to trivial provocations. Note, references