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Doses of 0.41, 0.63, and 0.85 g alcohol/kg body weight were administered using a double-blind Latin square design to subjects who made mood ratings at seven points in time during 3 h subsequent to administration. The subjects felt more euphoric and extraverted and less tense at mainly the highest dose levels. Lower dose levels tended to induce more negative feelings. Frequent consumers of alcohol derived greater affective benefit than rare drinkers. Intercorrelations between ratings of subjective intoxication and mood variables indicated that the meaning of the variable ‘subjective intoxication’ was different for the three dose levels and for different points in time.
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Persson, LO., Sjöberg, L. & Svensson, E. Mood effects of alcohol. Psychopharmacology 68, 295–299 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00428119
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