Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Schlauch, Robert Charles
Author's Email Address	schlauch@psy.fsu.edu
URN	etd-07052007-182235
Title	The Effect of Alcohol Intoxication on Race-Biased Responding: The Moderating Role of Internal and External Motivations to Inhibit Prejudice
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Psychology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Alan R. Lang Committee Member Chris Schatschneider Committee Member E. Ashby Plant Committee Member
Keywords	Race-Biased Responding Alcohol Alcohol Challenge Study Disinhibited Behaviors Prejudice Motivations
Date of Defense	2007-05-17
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract We examined the effect of alcohol intoxication on expression of prejudice, a prototypic and socially important, yet largely neglected, example of disinhibited behavior. Experimental procedures were used to examine how drinking influences race-biased responding on a sequential priming task, and how individual differences in internal and external motivations to inhibit prejudice might moderate that relationship. Ninety-one social drinkers were randomly assigned to receive a non-alcoholic, placebo, or alcoholic beverages before completing the Weapon Identification Task (Payne, 2001) under two sets of instructions (2000ms to respond vs. 500ms to respond). Results indicated that alcohol intoxication resulted in significantly more race-biased errors for 500ms trials only. Moreover, individual differences in external and internal motivations to inhibit prejudice significantly moderated such race-biased errors within the 500ms trials. These results suggest that, although alcohol intoxication can increase race-biased errors, individuals may be able to compensate for the disinhibitory effects of alcohol when given enough time. In addition, the current study further reinforces the notion that individual differences are important determinants of whether or not disinhibited behaviors will be exhibited under the influence of alcohol.
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