Borrill J A, Rosen B K, Summerfield A B
Br J Med Psychol. 1987 Mar;60(1):71-7.
Despite considerable research into the effects of alcohol on behaviour, there appears to be little information available about the influence of alcohol on interpersonal judgement. An experiment was carried out to test the hypothesis that alcohol would affect subjects' ability to judge facial expressions of emotion. Thirty male and 30 female normal social drinkers were allocated at random to high alcohol, low alcohol or placebo conditions and were shown photographs of faces displaying basic emotions. As predicted, subjects in the high alcohol condition made more errors and subjects in the low alcohol condition fewer errors than subjects in the placebo condition. Accuracy of judgement also varied significantly according to the sex of the subject and the category of emotion being judged. In particular, alcohol was associated with greater impairment of judgements of anger than of other emotions. The clinical implications of the findings are discussed in relation to the association between alcohol and violence, and the use of social skills training with problem drinkers.
尽管对酒精对行为的影响进行了大量研究，但关于酒精对人际判断的影响似乎几乎没有可用信息。进行了一项实验来检验酒精会影响受试者判断面部表情情绪能力的假设。30名男性和30名女性正常社交饮酒者被随机分配到高酒精、低酒精或安慰剂组，并观看展示基本情绪的面部照片。正如预测的那样，高酒精组的受试者比安慰剂组的受试者犯的错误更多，低酒精组的受试者犯的错误更少。判断的准确性也因受试者的性别和所判断的情绪类别而有显著差异。特别是，与其他情绪相比，酒精与愤怒判断的更大损害有关。研究结果的临床意义在与酒精和暴力之间的关联以及对问题饮酒者进行社交技能训练的使用方面进行了讨论。
