@article{d79dcbd3eaf64d5e827823fb4699a383,
title = "Effect of ethanol self-administration on choice behavior: Money vs. socializing",
abstract = "Volunteer chronic alcoholic subjects were exposed to a discrete-trial choice procedure within a residential research setting. Twelve daily trials occurred at 20 min intervals. In each trial a subject chose between 2 mutually exclusive options involving either receipt of money or the opportunity for socializing. The effect of ethanol self-administration was evaluated by requiring randomly over days that a subject consume either 8 drinks of orange juice or 8 drinks of ethanol (89.12 g ethanol total). For all 4 subjects, the mean rate of choosing socialization over money was significantly greater on sessions involving ethanol self-administration than on sessions involving orange juice self-administration.",
keywords = "Alcoholics, Choice procedure, Ethanol self-administration, Social interactions",
author = "Roland Griffiths and George Bigelow and Ira Liebson",
note = "Funding Information: The behavioral mechanism by which ethanol increases social interactions remains unclear. One possibility is that ethanol self-administration increases the reinforcing properties of social interaction. This interpretation is compatible with basic behavioral research data which indicate that under some conditions absolute response rate measures show a positive relationship to magnitude of reinforcement \[7, 14, 16, 23\]. However, in reviewing a large number of studies in behavioral pharmacology, it has been noted that drug effects do not generally depend upon characteristics of the reinforcer maintaining the behavior under study \[1 1 \]. Rather, it appears that the baseline rate at which the behavior occurs is a major determinant of how a drug will 1This research was supported by USPHS Grant No. AA-00179 to Baltimore City Hospitals. Reprints may be obtained from R. Griffiths, Department of Psychiatry, Baltimore City Hospitals, Baltimore, Maryland 21224. Copyright: Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "1975",
doi = "10.1016/0091-3057(75)90054-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "3",
pages = "443--446",
journal = "Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior",
issn = "0091-3057",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "3",
}