Chapter Four
Understanding social factors in alcohol reward and risk for problem drinking
Catharine E. Fairbairn*; Brynne A. Velia Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States* Corresponding author: email address: cfairbai@illinois.edu
Abstract
Researchers have long sought to capture acute rewarding effects associated with drinking alcohol with the view that a better understanding of alcohol's rewards will ultimately inform our knowledge of factors motivating problematic drinking. Importantly, however, although most everyday alcohol consumption occurs in social contexts, and drinkers report that socially enhancing effects of alcohol motivate their drinking, researchers studying alcohol's effects ...
