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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2022 Oct 20;31(4):839–848. doi: 10.1037/pha0000611

Table 2.

Subjective Effects

Phase Placebo (0.0 g/kg)
M (SD)
Alcohol (0.60 g/kg)
M (SD)

30 mins 50 mins 30 mins 50 mins 60 mins 90 mins 120 mins
Intoxication Early 29.63 (23.36) 27.58 (23.14) 74.42 (17.60) 78.79 (14.45) 75.71 (15.69) 69.71 (16.65) 57.42 (22.07)
Late 25.67 (24.12) 31.00 (25.56) 74.75 (18.41) 77.92 (15.96) 74.17 (18.20) 68.29 (17.70) 58.92 (18.94)

Desire Early 31.42 (23.63) 31.04 (22.62) 33.42 (27.19) 37.79 (31.02) 35.29 (29.65) 31.13 (26.46) 29.75 (27.25)
Late 37.29 (25.13) 36.54 (25.93) 35.63 (30.49) 37.96 (27.64) 39.54 (28.33) 38.50 (30.67) 25.00 (23.74)

Like Early 40.17 (23.38) 36.50 (22.90) 71.88 (23.90) 57.73 (27.48) 58.00 (24.55) 57.50 (22.90) 56.88 (18.20)
Late 40.00 (23.41) 42.63 (22.32) 67.25 (19.44) 64.96 (20.90) 64.63 (19.22) 58.00 (24.65) 53.29 (25.17)

Stimulation Early 31.08 (23.30) 29.38 (22.14) 66.42 (18.24) 66.42 (23.10) 63.83 (25.64) 58.96 (18.97) 51.92 (20.14)
Late 27.58 (23.81) 28.88 (25.10) 65.75 (21.71) 60.13 (26.07) 61.17 (25.76) 56.17 (22.15) 51.67 (22.23)

Sedation Early 34.75 (25.02) 35.79 (25.99) 43.71 (29.26) 45.29 (30.67) 45.00 (30.83) 46.08 (30.26) 40.58 (28.32)
Late 39.00 (25.53) 42.50 (27.26) 43.13 (27.52) 43.92 (31.45) 40.88 (30.77) 47.42 (24.67) 44.21 (26.51)

Table 2. Composite subjective effects data for all participants (N=24). All ratings were given on a scale of 1–100. Each column indicates the number of minutes post-consumption that the rating was provided. Intoxication = participant’s subjective level of intoxication; Desire = participant’s desire to consume alcohol; Like = how much participant likes the effects she is feeling; Stimulation = participant’s subjective level of stimulation; Sedation = participant’s subjective level of sedation.