Experiment 3

Materials

· SOP for research assistant

· Consent form

· Outline of some method details

· Text for Method section

· DMDX scripts for experiment (Sample Main Session; Shock Sensitivity)

· Assignment four description (Introduction & Results)

· Assignment five description (Discussion)

Readings

Full annotated reference list

Required theory paper

• Steele, C., & Josephs, R. (1990). Alcohol myopia: Its prized and dangerous effects. American Psychologist, 45(8), 921-933.

Other recommended theory papers

• Sayette, M. A. (1993). Does drinking reduce stress? Alcohol Research and Health, 23(4), 250-255.

• Steele, C. M., & Southwick, L. (1985). Alcohol and social behavior: I. The psychology of drunken excess. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 48(1), 18-34.

Required empirical research

• Curtin, J. J., Lang, A. R., Patrick, C. J., & Stritzke, W. G. K. (1998). Alcohol and fear-potentiated startle: The role of competing cognitive demands in the stress-reducing effects of intoxication. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107(4), 547-565.

• Curtin, J. J., Patrick, C. J., Lang, A. R., Cacioppo, J. T., & Birbaumer, N. (2001). Alcohol affects emotion through cognition. Psychological Science, 12(6), 527-531.

• Josephs, R., & Steele, C. (1990). The two faces of alcohol myopia: Attentional mediation of psychological stress. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 99(2), 115-126.

Other relevant empirical research

• Stritzke, W. G. K., Lang, A. R., & Patrick, C. J. (1996). Beyond stress and arousal: A reconceptualization of alcohol-emotion relations with reference to psychophysiological methods. Psychological Bulletin, 120(3), 376-395.

• Steele, C., & Josephs, R. (1988). Drinking your troubles away II: An attention allocation model of alcohol's effect on psychological stress. Journal of Abnormal psychology, 97(2), 196-205.

• Steele, C. M., Southwick, L., & Pagano, R. (1986). Drinking your troubles away: The role of activity in mediating alcohol's reduction of psychological stress. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95(2), 173-180.

Interesting application of theory to other areas

• MacDonald, T. K., Fong, G. T., Zanna, M. P., & Martineau, A. M. (2000). Alcohol myopia and condom use: Can alcohol intoxication be associated with more prudent behavior? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(4), 605-619.

• MacDonald, T. K., MacDonald, G., Zanna, M. P., & Fong, G. (2000). Alcohol, sexual arousal, and intentions to use condoms in young men: Applying alcohol myopia theory to risky sexual behavior. Health Psychology, 19(3), 290-298.

• MacDonald, T. K., Zanna, M. P., & Fong, G. T. (1996). Why common sense goes out the window: Effects of alcohol on intentions to use condoms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22(8), 763-775.

• Steele, C. M., Critchlow, B., & Liu, T. J. (1985). Alcohol and social behavior: II. The helpful drunkard. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 48(1), 35-46.