Self-evaluation of performance and the ability to discriminate blood alcohol concentrations.
Social drinkers who had been trained to discriminate their blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) tended to predict greater impairment of performance while drinking than did untrained controls, although their actual performance on coding tasks did not differ. It is suggested that training in BAC discrimination may enhance caution and concern about behavioral impairment while drinking.
D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001519:Behavior / Q000187:drug effects*; D001944:Breath Tests; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D000431:Ethanol / Q000097:blood* / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment
D000431:Ethanol