A Participant Walks Into a Bar…

Volume: 46, Issue: 3, Pages: 157 - 166
Published: May 27, 2015
Abstract
Alcohol is commonly used to cope with social pain, but its effectiveness remains unknown. Existing theories offer diverging predictions. Pain overlap theory predicts that because alcohol numbs physical pain it should also numb people to the negative effects of ostracism. Alcohol myopia predicts that because alcohol intensifies salient emotions it should enhance the negative effects of ostracism. We conducted a field experiment in a bar, exposing...
Paper Details
Title
A Participant Walks Into a Bar…
Published Date
May 27, 2015
Volume
46
Issue
3
Pages
157 - 166
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