28 male undergraduates were randomly divided into an Alcohol group (0.8 ml/kg) or a Control group. After drinking they were exposed to a violent movie and then they wrote TAT-stories and completed semantic differential scales. Only the indirect semantic scales differentiated the groups: intoxicated subjects accepted violence more and with less negative feeling.
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