C. Nathan DeWall’s research while affiliated with University of Kentucky and other places

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Publications (234)


Too Insensitive to Care: Alcohol Increases Human Aggression by Increasing Pain Threshold
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November 2024

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Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

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Peter R Giancola

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Objective: For thousands of years, people have used alcohol to reduce their sensitivity to physical and emotional pain. Previous research has shown that alcohol increases pain threshold. Previous research has also shown that pain threshold is positively associated with aggression. This research tests the novel hypothesis that the relationship between alcohol and aggression is mediated by increased pain threshold. Method: To replicate findings, two independent laboratory experiments were conducted (Experiment 1: N=543; Experiment 2: N=327). In both experiments, male and female heavy social drinkers were randomly assigned to consume either an alcohol or a placebo beverage. Next, they reported their pain level to electric shocks that increased in a stepwise manner until the level was described as "painful," which was defined as the pain threshold level. Finally, they delivered painful electric shocks to an ostensible opponent each time they won a competitive reaction time task. Participants won half of the 34 trials (randomly determined). Shock intensity and duration levels were standardized and summed across the 34 trials to create a more comprehensive measure of aggression. Results: Participants who consumed an alcoholic beverage had a higher pain threshold level than did those who consumed a placebo beverage. The less pain participants felt themselves, the more pain they inflicted on their ostensible partner via electric shock. Results were nearly identical across both experiments. Conclusions: These findings provide novel evidence regarding one possible reason why intoxicated people behave more aggressively than sober people do. Alcohol intoxication increases aggression partially through its effect on increasing pain threshold.











Citations (54)


... However, the delayed diagnosis of CSIs in this case was likely influenced by alcohol consumption, which may have contributed to altered consciousness and modified pain thresholds. The frequency and amount of alcohol use can affect pain perception [7], and alcohol has been reported to increase pain thresholds owing to its general pharmacological effects [19]. Furthermore, epidemiological studies have indicated that alcohol use is associated with delayed diagnosis of CSIs [20]. ...

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Too Insensitive to Care: Alcohol Increases Human Aggression by Increasing Pain Threshold
  • Citing Article
  • November 2024

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

... The "religious residue" refers to a psychological phenomenon in which religious beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes persist even after deidentifying from religion (Van Tongeren, DeWall, Chen, et al., 2021). This novel line of work has shown that those who were formerly religious (the Dones) occupy a "middle" space between those who were raised and continue to identify as religious (the Currents) and those who were not raised and do not currently identify as religious (the Nevers; Van Tongeren & DeWall, 2023). For example, a general "stair-step" pattern emerges where Currents report the highest levels of religious belief and practice, followed by the Dones, followed by the Nevers (Van Tongeren, DeWall, Chen, et al., 2021). ...

Disbelief, Disengagement, Discontinuance, and Disaffiliation: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Religious Deidentification
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  • July 2021

... Intellectual humility (IH) is acknowledging the partial nature of one's understanding and valuing others' intelligence (DeWall, 2023). This definition explains the positive aspects of the construct that a person is called intellectually humble if he has the willpower to accept his weaknesses and the person who is not always bragging about the knowledge he has (Naumova, 2023). ...

Getting humble about intellectual humility
  • Citing Article
  • January 2023

... We have no reason to believe that the results depend on other characteristics of the participants, materials, or context. That said, it is possible there are cultural and individual differences in both how much parents value and display IH (e.g., McLaughlin et al., 2023). Our sample was relatively homogenous in terms of race and parent education, and it is not clear whether the same links between self-reports of IH, explanatory characteristics of IH, and child behaviors related to IH would be demonstrated with other groups. ...

Intellectual humility in the context of existential commitment
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  • December 2022

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Don E. Davis

... While the self-reported degree (or rated importance) of religiosity or spirituality and religious affiliation are often stable throughout the lifespan, many people undergo religious or spiritual changes, including increases or decreases in degree of self-reported religiosity or spirituality to religious (de)conversions (i.e., joining/leaving a religion or switching religions; Hwang et al., 2023;Kandler, 2021;Pew Research Center, 2023). Rates of religious switching are increasing (Pew Research Center, 2015) and, in particular, rates of religious affiliation (i.e., belonging to any religion) have declined in recent decades with more people identifying as "religious nones" (i.e., atheists, agnostics, or "nothing in particular") including those previously religious, or "religious dones" (Burge, 2021;McLaughlin et al., 2022;Pew Research Center, 2022;Van Tongeren et al., 2023). However, even "nones" often have specific core beliefs regarding existential and other issues (van Mulukom et al., 2023), and many identify as "spiritual but not religious" or religiously unaffiliated but consider themselves "spiritual" (Pew Research Center, 2023; Wixwat & Saucier, 2021). 2 Changes in religious affiliation are influenced by many factors. ...

A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? Toward an Understanding of the Religious Dones

... Thus, the bias of a region should be positively associated with outcomes that reinforce racial inequality. Indeed, through aggregating resident's individual bias scores based on geographic proximity, researchers have correlated regional racial biases with a wide variety of important real-world outcomes, including Black-White disparities in traffic stop rates 25,26 , police militarization 27 , and the adoption rate of foster children 28 . ...

Implicit bias predicts less willingness and less frequent adoption of Black children more than explicit bias
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  • November 2021

... Values are thoughts, feelings and actions of a religious group and their ideas like forgiveness, self-control and not harming others. The religious dimensions are different among the different religions, therefore to understand the context of this dimensions are influencing consumer behavior marketers need to understand the values beliefs and community structure of that specific religion [20,21]. ...

No Longer Religious, but Still Spending Money Religiously: Religious Rituals and Community Influence Consumer Behavior among Religious Dones
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  • March 2021

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

... In this regard, we should also note that not all Roma are believers. Particularly this topic brings great potential for research on so-called "nones" and "dones" (never and former religious people) (Schwadel 2021). In current religious studies in Europe the research of non-religious people, nonbelievers, or believers without a fixed affiliation has increasing tendencies (e.g. ...

The Values of Religious Nones, Dones, and Sacralized Americans: Links Between Changes in Religious Affiliation and Schwartz Values
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  • February 2021

Journal of Personality

... Finally, the United States and other parts of the world are experiencing significant religious changes, such as the rise of religiously unaffiliated individuals. Van Tongeren has explored how people's values and other aspects of their identities change or do not change once they abandon their religion (Van Tongeren, DeWall, Chen, et al., 2021;Van Tongeren, DeWall, Hardy, & Schwadel, 2021). It would be insightful to understand how their consumer behavior evolves or remains unchanged. ...

Religious Identity and Morality: Evidence for Religious Residue and Decay in Moral Foundations
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  • January 2021

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

... This can lead to an inflated perception of the self, a vainglorious self-concept, and disdain for others (De Cremer & Van Dijk, 2005;DeWall, Baumeister, Mead, & Vohs, 2011;Kipnis, 1972;Wojciszke & Struzynska-Kujalowicz, 2007). This connects to the self-serving bias, which is often seen as a motivated attempt to present the self in a more positive light than others (Arkin, Appelman, & Burger, 1980;Campbell & Sedikides, 1999). ...

How leaders self-regulate their task performance
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  • January 2018