“…The effect size of alcohol on IPA is moderate (for a review, see Cafferky et al, 2018), prior laboratory findings involving the acute effects of alcohol on negative interaction behaviors among violent couples did not replicate (Testa, Crane, Quigley, Levitt, & Leonard, 2014), and the effects are dependent on myriad moderating risk factors (Foran & O’Leary, 2008; Stith, Smith, Penn, Ward, & Tritt, 2004). The overall pattern of data suggests that additional laboratory studies are needed to actually demonstrate the acute effects of alcohol intoxication on IPA-related outcomes given the small number of carefully controlled alcohol-administration studies, particularly from samples at high risk for alcohol-facilitated IPA (Eckhardt, Parrott, & Massa, in press).…”