ALCOHOL and Physical Attractiveness

An experimental research study to investigate the effects of alcohol on both physical attractiveness and sex appeal is proposed. The research orientation of the proposed study will be on the effects of alcohol on the perceptions of subjects towards. The perceptual effects of alcohol investigated will those associated with the actual ingestion or non ingestion of alcohol by a subject, and the expectations of subjects in relation to others where such expectations are associated alcohol consumption or non consumption.

The literature indicates that subjects perceptions related to the probable behavior of others is associated with both the actual and believed consumption of alcohol on the part of both subjects and others. Disagreement is present in the body of literature on the issue, however, with respect to both the validity and strength of such relationships. The empirical research study proposed will contribute to the clarification of the disputed issues surrounding the relationship between alcohol and both physical attractiveness and sex appeal.

The consumption of alcohol is widely linked in American society with highly valued social attributes (Grube, 1993, pp. 61-66). Perceptions of the expected behaviors of individuals consuming alcohol tend to vary according to the gender of the individual whose behaviors are subjected to speculation (Blume, 1991, p. 139). Much of the gene

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sponse theory into a comprehensive explanation of human behavior (Grusec, 1992, pp. 776-786). Various theories of human development often tend to view people as either active or passive in interactions with their environments. A passive concept of human development is behaviorism. Behaviorism emphasizes the critical significance of one's environment to the overall development of the individual. Active concepts of human development, by contrast with passive concepts, hold that individuals are not passive beings, but, rather, are capable of actively governing their own development. An active concept of human development is the cognitive development theory. Behavioristic human development involves the concept of conditioning (Turner & Helms, 1991, pp. 36-38). The classical concept of conditioning is that developed by Ivan Pavlov. B. F. Skinner advanced the behaviorist approach through the development of the concepts of operant conditioning and reinforcement. Cognitive theory incorporates some aspects of behavioral theory (Turner & Helms, pp. 36-38). An assumption central to cognitive theory is that an individual's emotional and behavioral responses to events in one's life are greatly influenced by one's own interpretation
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