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A mobile phone intervention to reduce heavy drinking: a preliminary analysis of anchoring heuristics
BackgroundPreliminary evidence has been presented for interventions focused on preventing alcohol consumption or reducing the occurrence of episodes...
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A Swift Overview of Eating and Drinking Since Antiquity
This chapter offers a very broad survey of the transformation of the diet in the past 2500 years. Such an ambitious venture tends to highlight...
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Sociocultural and Environmental Influences on Drinking Behavior
There are strong sociocultural and environmental influences on drinking behavior. This is apparent when we observe vastly different drinking patterns...
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Drinking motives as a predictor of readiness to change alcohol use
Drinking motives have been identified as important predictors of alcohol consumption. Similarly, the degree of readiness to change (RTC) can predict...
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Drinking to Cope is Uniquely Associated with Less Specific and Bleaker Future Goal Generation in Young Hazardous Drinkers
Groups with mental health and/or substance use problems generate less detailed descriptions of their future goals. As substance use to cope with...
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Bars as a Drinking Context for Sexual Aggression
Drinking contexts such as bars and nightclubs have long been described as permissive environments for excessive drinking, disruptive and aggressive...
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Newcomer Drinking Behavior and Immediate Post-College Earnings Growth: Does Occupational Social Intensity Make a Difference?
While some studies suggest that alcohol use reduces productivity and hence may reduce wages, others argue that it can enhance network relations and...
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Hostile and Benevolent Sexism and Attitudes Toward Establishing Consent Among Chinese Men: The Detrimental Role of Token Resistance Beliefs and Binge Drinking
Attitudes toward establishing sexual consent is an important prerequisite for understanding whether and how men will actively negotiate consent in...
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Consumed by Fear: Urban Anxieties About Eating and Drinking in the Long Nineteenth Century
Compared to the early modern period, modern urban consumers were less concerned with the quantity and more concerned with the quality of the food and...
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The Intelligent, Responsible, and Humane Side of Social Media: A Case Study of a Partnership Between UP Police India and Facebook Saving Lives
The purpose of the case study is to demonstrate how social media and police (law enforcement) may work together in a thoughtful, ethical, and...
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At what stage in the drinking process does drinking water affect attention and memory? Effects of mouth rinsing and mouth drying in adults
Drinking water is important for health and there is an agreement that drinking water facilitates certain cognitive processes. However, the mechanism...
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A Swift Overview of Eating and Drinking Since Antiquity
This chapter offers a very broad survey of the transformation of diet in past 2500 years. Such an ambitious venture tends to highlight spectacular...
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Atmospheric Effects on Eating and Drinking: A Review
Whenever, wherever, and whatever we choose to eat and drink, one thing is for sure, we will do so in an environment that has a certain atmosphere....
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Alcohol Use and Abuse in Everyday Life: The Centrality of Motivation
In this chapter, beverage alcohol is defined, as are the four main categories of it (beer, wine, fortified wine, distilled spirits), which vary in...
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History of Eating and Drinking in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
This chapter offers a broad survey of the history of food and drinking culture in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey covering a time period of more...
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Alcohol and Its Effects on the Body
When a person drinks alcohol, it enters the stomach and small intestine, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream. The rate of absorption, which is...
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Mutual facilitation between activity-based anorexia and schedule-induced polydipsia in rats
The objective of this study was to evaluate the possible relationship between drinking (licks) in the schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP) phenomenon...
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Acquired substance-dependent compulsivity but not general compulsivity predicts increased substance use
BackgroundSubstance misuse among college students is a growing area of concern. Approximately 2 in 5 college students suffer from binge drinking...
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What Electrical Stimulation of the Brain Tells Us About Motivation
Electrical stimulation has been used to since the 1950s to study motivational systems in rats and occasionally in human patients as well. Brain...
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Heart, Brain and Behaviour: Interactions That Underpin the Biopsychosocial Model of Care
The brain acts as a control centre for a range of human behavioural responses to environmental and social challenges. These responses include eating,...