Alcohol-Related Aggression

It is well known that alcohol consumption facilitates violent behavior in certain persons but not in others.  In fact, alcohol intoxication is involved in over 50% of violent interpersonal acts.  However, the influence of alcohol on violence goes largely ignored by society.  As such, one goal of my research is to identify what personality, behavioral, and cognitive traits place an individual at risk for behaving aggressively when intoxicated.  Another goal is to determine exactly how alcohol intoxication leads to aggression by examining its effects on cognitive and emotional factors. 

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• Giancola, P.R., & **Corman, M.D.  (2007).  Alcohol and aggression:  A test of the attention-allocation model.  Psychological Science, 18, 649-655.
• **Phillips, J.P., & Giancola, P.R.  (2008).  Experimentally-induced anxiety attenuates alcohol-related aggression in men.  Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 16, 43-56.
• Giancola, P.R., **Levinson, C.A., **Corman, M.D., **Godlaski, A.J., **Morris, D.H., **Phillips, J.P., & **Holt, J.C.D.  (2009).  Men and women, alcohol and aggression.  Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 17, 154-164.
• **Godlaski, A.J., & Giancola, P.R.  (2009).  Executive functioning, irritability, and alcohol-related aggression.  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23, 391-403.