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Alcohol and aggression: a test of the attention-allocation modelPeter R Giancola
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Sci 18:649-55. 2007..e., holding four elements in sequential order in working memory) suppressed aggression best. Cognitive loads of larger and smaller magnitudes were not successful in attenuating aggression...- A further examination of the relation between trait anger and alcohol-related aggression: the role of anger controlDominic J Parrott
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0044, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:855-64. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: The present findings suggest that anger control may be a crucial risk factor in determining whether one's anger proneness will lead to intoxicated aggression following provocation... 
Executive functioning, irritability, and alcohol-related aggressionAaron J Godlaski
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 23:391-403. 2009..The findings are discussed, in part, within a cognitive neoassociationistic framework for aggressive behavior...- The effect of past-year heavy drinking on alcohol-related aggressionDominic J Parrott
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0044, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:122-30. 2006..A history of high-frequency drinking did not moderate the alcohol-aggression relation. CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight the importance of considering a history of heavy episodic drinking in the prediction of intoxicated aggression... - The effects of alcohol and provocation on aggressive behavior in men and womenPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:64-73. 2002..The purpose of this study was to investigate the manner in which acute alcohol consumption and provocation affect aggressive behavior in men and women... - The relation between social problems and substance use in adolescent boys: an investigation of potential moderatorsGavin D Shoal
University of Kentucky, Lexington, 40506, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 13:357-66. 2005..It is concluded that the widely accepted relation between social difficulties and adolescent male substance use may be better understood in the context of cognitive variables... - "So I can't blame the booze?": Dispositional aggressivity negates the moderating effects of expectancies on alcohol-related aggressionPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:815-24. 2005..The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of alcohol expectancies on intoxicated aggression in men and women while controlling for dispositional aggressivity... - The influence of difficult temperament on alcohol-related aggression: better accounted for by executive functioning?Peter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Addict Behav 31:2169-87. 2006..These findings are discussed with regard to how they influence current models of aggressive behavior as well as their implications for future violence prevention efforts... - Influence of subjective intoxication, breath alcohol concentration, and expectancies on the alcohol-aggression relationPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:844-50. 2006.... - The underlying role of aggressivity in the relation between executive functioning and alcohol consumptionPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Addict Behav 32:765-83. 2007.... - Perceptions of one's attacker's intentions following an aggressive interaction involving alcoholPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
J Gen Psychol 133:389-400. 2006..The authors discuss results according to L. Huesmann's (1988) cognitive script model of aggression... - Delinquency as a mediator of the relation between negative affectivity and adolescent alcohol use disorderGavin D Shoal
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Addict Behav 32:2747-65. 2007..The importance and implications of testing delinquency variables together in the same model are discussed... - Further evidence for the validity of the Taylor Aggression ParadigmPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Aggress Behav 34:214-29. 2008..Taken as a whole, this pattern of findings provides further evidence for the validity of the TAP as a measure of direct physical aggression for men and women... - Differential effects of past-year stimulant and sedative drug use on alcohol-related aggressionPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, United States
Addict Behav 30:1535-54. 2005..The present findings suggest that stimulant drug use may be a risk factor for intoxicated aggression for men. However, the underlying mechanisms accounting for this effect remain unclear... - A further examination of gender differences in alcohol-related aggressionNatasha L Gussler-Burkhardt
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0044, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:413-22. 2005..This finding may be due to gender-related differences in liability thresholds for aggression as well as discrepancies in how men and women respond to different forms of provocation... - Executive functioning and alcohol-related aggressionPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:541-55. 2004..Furthermore, alcohol increased aggression only for men with lower EF scores. Finally, the mere belief that alcohol was consumed suppressed aggression for women but not for men... - The influence of trait anger on the alcohol-aggression relation in men and womenPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentocky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:1350-8. 2002..The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of trait anger on alcohol-related aggression in men and women... - Irritability, acute alcohol consumption and aggressive behavior in men and womenPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 68:263-74. 2002..An important goal for future research is to identify which individual differences and which contextual factors are most important in determining who will, and who will not, behave in an aggressive manner when intoxicated... - Alcohol-related aggression in men and women: the influence of dispositional aggressivityPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:696-708. 2002..The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of dispositional aggressivity on the alcohol-aggression relation in men and women... - Diverse research on alcohol and aggression in humans: in memory of John A. CarpenterPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:198-208. 2003..Finally, Kenneth E. Leonard presented data on personal and contextual factors influencing alcohol-related barroom violence... - The moderating effects of dispositional empathy on alcohol-related aggression in men and womenPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:275-81. 2003..Men with lower empathy levels exhibited the most aggression followed by men with higher empathy levels. Women displayed the least aggression regardless of their empathy levels... - Executive functioning, temperament, and drug use involvement in adolescent females with a substance use disorderPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:857-66. 2003..This study determined whether temperament mediates the relation between executive functioning (EF) and drug use involvement and whether EF and temperament interact to account for unique variance in drug use involvement... - The effects of affective, behavioral, and cognitive components of trait anger on the alcohol-aggression relationPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:1944-54. 2003..The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of affective, behavioral, and cognitive components of trait anger on alcohol-related aggression in men and women... - Difficult temperament, acute alcohol intoxication, and aggressive behaviorPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 74:135-45. 2004..An important goal for future research is to identify which individual difference and which contextual factors are most important in determining who will, and who will not, behave in an aggressive manner when intoxicated... 
Men and women, alcohol and aggressionPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 17:154-64. 2009..Alcohol increased aggression for both men and women but this effect was stronger for men. This is one of the first laboratory studies to demonstrate that alcohol increases aggression in women...- Applying the attention-allocation model to the explanation of alcohol-related aggression: implications for preventionPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Subst Use Misuse 44:1263-79. 2009..Finally, a number of practical suggestions are put forth regarding how the AAM can be applied to the prevention of intoxicated aggression... - Experimentally induced anxiety attenuates alcohol-related aggression in menJoshua P Phillips
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 16:43-56. 2008..Findings are discussed within the context of a number of theories of alcohol's anxiolytic effects in relation to intoxicated aggression... - Negative affectivity and drug use in adolescent boys: moderating and mediating mechanismsGavin D Shoal
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506-0044, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:221-33. 2003..These findings suggest that the relation between negative affectivity and drug use is best understood within the context of other drug use risk factors... - Salivary cortisol, personality, and aggressive behavior in adolescent boys: a 5-year longitudinal studyGavin D Shoal
Department of Psychiatry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:1101-7. 2003..Increased aggressive behavior in adolescents with low resting cortisol may be more strongly associated with lack of self-control than with a specifically "aggressive personality.".. - The treatment of substance misuse in psychopathic individuals: why heterogeneity mattersLauren C Gudonis
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Subst Use Misuse 44:1415-33. 2009.... - Predicting adolescent violence: impact of family history, substance use, psychiatric history, and social adjustmentRalph E Tarter
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:1541-7. 2002....
Research Grants
- COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING AND ALCOHOL RELATED AGGRESSIONPeter Giancola; Fiscal Year: 2002..This large laboratory- based project will elucidate an aggregate set of influences integral to the determination of alcohol-related aggression in both men and women that can be later verified in more naturalistic settings. ..
- Individual Differences in Alcohol-Related AggressionPeter Giancola; Fiscal Year: 2007..Empathy will be induced using well-validated empathy-induction techniques. Aggression will be measured using the TAP. ..