Gustafson R, Källmén H
Department of Psychology, University of Orebro, Sweden.
Percept Mot Skills. 1990 Dec;71(3 Pt 2):1367-74. doi: 10.2466/pms.1990.71.3f.1367.
An experiment tested the hypothesis that moderately intoxicated subjects can compensate for the detrimental effects of alcohol. Subjects were assigned either to a Control group, a Low Incentive group, or a High Incentive group. The dose of alcohol was 1.0 ml of 100% alcohol/kg body weight. The rationale of the experiment was that the High Incentive group would be more inclined to try to compensate than would the Low Incentive group. A psychomotor and two different cognitive tasks were used. Analysis indicated that the psychomotor test was not at all affected by alcohol, so there was no possibility for compensation. On the Color Word Test, intoxicated subjects developed the strategy of taking longer time to complete the test and so keeping the number of errors low. On the Dot Test, men were not affected by alcohol and could not compensate while women were affected and successfully compensated for the detrimental effects of alcohol. The results were interpreted as a partial support of the hypothesis of compensation for alcohol effect.
一项实验对适度醉酒的受试者能够补偿酒精有害影响这一假设进行了测试。受试者被分为对照组、低激励组或高激励组。酒精剂量为每千克体重1.0毫升100%的酒精。该实验的基本原理是，高激励组比低激励组更倾向于尝试进行补偿。使用了一项心理运动测试和两项不同的认知任务。分析表明，心理运动测试完全不受酒精影响，因此不存在补偿的可能性。在颜色词测试中，醉酒的受试者制定了花费更长时间完成测试从而保持错误数量较低的策略。在点测试中，男性不受酒精影响且无法进行补偿，而女性受到影响并成功补偿了酒精的有害影响。结果被解释为对酒精效应补偿假设的部分支持。
