A social contextual review of the effects of alcohol on emotion

Goodwin, Madeline E.; Sayette, Michael A.

doi:10.1016/j.pbb.2022.173486

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“…The results indicated a positive association between state affective empathy and number of standard drinks consumed. These findings add to a growing body of work highlighting the importance of social factors in alcohol use and misuse (e.g., Creswell, 2021;Fairbairn & Sayette, 2014;Fairbairn et al, 2015;Goodwin & Sayette, 2022;Kumar et al, 2022aKumar et al, , 2022b. Future research is needed to replicate these findings and explore possible mechanisms for the link between higher state affective empathy and increased alcohol use, as well as individual difference factors (e.g., drinking refusal self-efficacy, impulsivity; Creswell et al, 2019;Laghi et al, 2019) that might moderate the association between state affective empathy and alcohol use.…”

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“…Alcohol is most often consumed in social settings ( Fairbairn & Sayette, 2014 ; Sayette et al, 2012 ; Skrzynski & Creswell, 2020 , 2021 ), and social factors play a key role in alcohol use and the development of alcohol problems ( Cooper et al, 2015 ; Creswell, 2021 ; Goodwin & Sayette, 2022 ). Empathy is likely to play an important role in alcohol use in social settings ( Laghi et al, 2019 ), and increased sensitivity to the rewarding social effects of alcohol might place individuals with lower trait empathy at elevated risk to escalate their drinking and develop alcohol problems ( Dolder et al, 2016 ).…”

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“…One important reason individuals choose to drink is for alcohol's social rewards (Cooper et al, 2015;Creswell, 2021;Sayette et al, 2016). Humans have a fundamental need to belong and develop relationships with others (Baumeister & Leary, 1995), and alcohol's well-documented social facilitative effects aid in fulfilling these powerful basic needs (Fairbairn et al, 2015;Goodwin & Sayette, 2022;Sayette et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One important reason individuals choose to drink is for alcohol’s social rewards ( Cooper et al, 2015 ; Creswell, 2021 ; Sayette et al, 2016 ). Humans have a fundamental need to belong and develop relationships with others ( Baumeister & Leary, 1995 ), and alcohol’s well-documented social facilitative effects aid in fulfilling these powerful basic needs ( Fairbairn et al, 2015 ; 2018 ; Goodwin & Sayette, 2022 ; Sayette et al, 2012 ). Indeed, the majority of alcohol use takes place in social settings ( Fairbairn & Sayette, 2014 ; Skrzynski & Creswell, 2020 , 2021 ), social facilitation is the most commonly endorsed reason for drinking ( Cooper et al, 2015 ), and people expect alcohol to improve their social experiences ( Smith et al, 1995 ).…”

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Associations of state and trait empathy with daily alcohol use

Kumar

Ringwald

Wright

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Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research

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Background: A growing literature documents associations between lower trait empathy and heavier alcohol use and more alcohol problems in adolescent and young adult samples. Prior work linking empathy and alcohol use/problems in these populations has thus far focused on trait rather than state empathy, and researchers often do not differentiate between cognitive and affective empathy. Further, no prior studies have examined associations between daily fluctuations in state empathy and alcohol use. The goal of the current study is to advance knowledge about the associations between state (vs. trait) and cognitive (vs. affective) empathy and alcohol use.Methods: Adult alcohol drinkers (n = 492; M age = 22.89, SD = 5.53; 53.70% female) participated in ecological momentary assessment studies for 7 to 10 days (day n = 4683). Multilevel hurdle models were used to investigate associations between day-level state empathy and daily alcohol use at the within-person level, and associations between individual differences in trait empathy and alcohol use across days at the between-person level.Results: Higher day-level state affective empathy was not associated with the likelihood of drinking on a particular day, but it was significantly associated with a greater number of drinks consumed on alcohol-consuming days, with the latter associations remaining after controlling for day-level positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA).No associations were found for day-level state cognitive empathy, or trait affective or cognitive empathy.Conclusions: On drinking days, when individuals reported more affective empathy than is typical for them, they were more likely to consume a greater number of alcoholic drinks, results that remained when controlling for levels of PA and NA. Daily shifts in affective empathy may be important to consider in efforts to understand alcohol use.

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Associations of state and trait empathy with daily alcohol use

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Wright

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Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research

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“…Notwithstanding a near century of effort, laboratory research has not demonstrated consistent rewarding impacts of alcohol on emotional experience (Goodwin & Sayette, 2022). Strikingly, despite the historical and cultural evidence suggesting that alcohol is a social drug, few laboratory alcohol studies have incorporated social contexts (Goodwin & Sayette, 2022). This oversight stands out when one considers that social experiences are powerful motivators.…”

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The impact of alcohol on affiliative verbal behavior: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Goodwin,

Sayette

2024

Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research

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BackgroundLanguage is a fundamental aspect of human social behavior that is linked to many rewarding social experiences, such as social bonding. Potential effects of alcohol on affiliative language may therefore be an essential feature of alcohol reward and may elucidate pathways through which alcohol is linked to social facilitation. Examinations of alcohol's impact on language content, however, are sparse. Accordingly, this investigation represents the first systematic review and meta‐analysis of alcohol's effects on affiliative language. We test the hypothesis that alcohol increases affiliative verbal approach behaviors and discuss future research directions.MethodsPsycInfo and Web of Science were systematically searched in March 2023 according to our preregistered plan. Eligible studies included social alcohol administration experiments in which affiliative verbal language was assessed. We present a random‐effects meta‐analysis that examines the effect of alcohol compared to control on measures of affiliative verbal behavior.ResultsOur search identified 16 distinct investigations (comprising 961 participants) that examined the effect of alcohol on affiliative verbal behavior. Studies varied greatly in methods and measures. Meta‐analytic results demonstrated that alcohol is modestly associated with increases in affiliative verbal behavior (Hedges' g = 0.164, 95% CI [0.027, 0.301], p = 0.019). Study quality was rated using an adapted version of the Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies and did not significantly moderate alcohol's effects.ConclusionsThis study provides preliminary evidence that alcohol can increase affiliative verbal behaviors. This effect may be an important feature of alcohol reward. Given heterogeneity in study features, low study quality ratings, and limited reporting of effect size data, results simultaneously highlight the promise of this research area and the need for more work. Advances in language processing methodologies that could allow future work to systematically expand upon this finding are discussed.

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