{"id":236,"date":"2014-05-22T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=236"},"modified":"2015-01-27T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:03:59","slug":"moderate-drinking-in-a-group-reduces-attraction-to-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2014\/05\/22\/moderate-drinking-in-a-group-reduces-attraction-to-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate drinking in a group reduces attraction to risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research led by the University of Kent&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/research\/csgp\/index.html\">Centre for the Study of Group Processes<\/a> shows that individuals who have consumed moderate amounts of alcohol in social situations are likely to view risky situations with greater caution when considering them as part of a group.<\/p>\n<p>The research, by psychologists from the University of Kent and the University of East Anglia, produced the first evidence found outside of laboratory conditions that being in a group can reduce some effects of alcohol consumption. The findings could lead to the design of new interventions designed to promote safer recreational drinking.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers asked University of Kent students who were drinking in groups in bars and at a music festival at its Canterbury campus to decide what levels of risk they thought was acceptable before recommending someone should take various actions. They accepted a higher level of risk when they were drinking and deciding alone, rather than when they were drinking and deciding in a group of others.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/newsarchive\/news\/stories\/groupdrinking\/2014.html\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research led by the University of Kent&#8217;s Centre for the Study of Group Processes shows that individuals who have consumed moderate amounts of alcohol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2014\/05\/22\/moderate-drinking-in-a-group-reduces-attraction-to-risk\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}