Proximal Effect Model

The benefits of conducting research with MTurk suggest that crowdsourcing may represent a viable option for the study of alcohol-related IPA. The proximal effects model holds that acute alcohol use results in temporary cognitive-behavioral impairments characterized by restricted attention to salient environmental stimuli and disinhibition that increases the likelihood of aggressive responding among intimate partners (Giancola, 2004). Multiple threshold models posit that the risks of acute alcohol use on aggressive behavior are disproportionally associated with individuals who are already predisposed to aggression, a relationship that has been well supported by data (e.g., Finkel & Eckhardt, 2013). Acknowledging and extending beyond etiological …show more content…
Aggression paradigms are intended to evaluate the proximal relationship between acute alcohol use and IPA by comparing responses of participants in the alcohol condition to those from one or more control condition. Aggression paradigms in the IPA literature include 1) couples conflict resolution (Heyman, Weiss, & Eddy, 1995), the observation and meticulous coding of partner interactions while discussing and attempting to resolve a salient source of conflict within the relationship, 2) Articulated Thoughts in Simulated Situations (ATSS; Davison, Robins, & Johnson, 1983), analysis of verbal responses to audio-recorded conversations between a simulated romantic partner and other characters which tend to elicit anger and jealousy, and 3) comparison of participant responses (e.g., identification of or latency in identifying a behavior as aggressive; Gross, Bennett, Sloan, Marx, & Juergens, 2001) to second and third-person written, audio, or video vignettes depicting physically or sexually aggressive behaviors between two romantically –involved