Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to
the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary …

Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to
the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary …

The reinforcing efficacy, or behavior-strengthening effect, of a substance is a critical
determinant of substance use typically quantified by measuring behavioral allocation to the …

Objective Adolescents with fewer sources of environmental reinforcement may be at risk for
alcohol use. Behavioral economic theories posit that engagement in some activities may …

Evidence for negative reinforcement of alcohol use is mixed; one possible explanation for
this is that people make value-based decisions whether to regulate their emotions via …

Most of the scientific research on alcohol consumption behavior in humans is laboratory-
based, as reflected by the ratio of laboratory vs. real-life contributions to this handbook …

For more than half a century, psychologists have studied whether alcohol use is reinforcing
via its mood-enhancing effects (Conger, 1956). Since then, many theoretical models have …