ALCOHOL, SELF-FOCUS AND COMPLEX REACTION-TIME PERFORMANCE

The effects of alcohol, expectancy and state-trait varieties of public self-focus on complex reaction-time performance were evaluated. Results indicated that subject's task performance was best understood as an interaction between his subjective experience of intoxication-sobriety, his beliefs concerning what he had drunk and the salience of situational standards toward effortful performance. Public self-consciousness proved to mediate the behavioral expression of conventional expectancies concerning drunken comportment. Interactions between alcohol, expectancy and self-focus are discussed in terms of an interactive model of drunken comportment.

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  Alcohol Research Documentation, Incorporated

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• Authors:
  • Ross, D F
  • Pihl, R O
• Publication Date: 1988

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 115-125
• Serial:
  • Journal of Studies on Alcohol
  • Volume: 49
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  • ISSN: 0096-882X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcoholic beverages; Behavior; Driver performance; Drivers; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Mathematical models; Personnel performance; Reaction time
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver reaction; Models
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486862
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1989 12:00AM