Our experimental alcohol administration study on the tension reduction hypothesis has been published in Addiction! 🎉 See preprint thread below for a summary :)
Https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70213
How people decide to consume (more) alcohol when feeling stressed
Background and aims
The tension reduction hypothesis suggests that people consume alcohol to alleviate stress. While previous studies showed stress increases alcohol's absolute value, alcohol's valu.....
I'm excited to share a new preprint: In a novel experimental paradigm, we found evidence that stress induces a computational bias during alcohol-related decision-making in favor of alcohol, but this bias was only sometimes strong enough to overcome competing considerations (e.g., taste preferences).
