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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2009 Apr 21;33(7):1265–1277. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.00952.x

Table 2.

Ranking of 10 Most Strongly Endorsed Alcohol Outcome Expectancy Iso-Meaning Groups by Gender and Drinking Group

Females
Males
Expectancy word group Light drinkers Medium drinkers Heavy drinkers Light drinkers Medium drinkers Heavy drinkers
Low dose expectancies
 Sociable 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Jolly 2 2 2 2 2 2
 Funny 3 3 3 3 3 3
 Verbal 4 5 5 5 6 7
 Energetic 5 4 4 4 4 4
 Courageous 6 6 7 6 5 6
 Noisy 7 9 6 8 8 10
 Cope 8 7 8 7 7 9
 Mellow 9 8 10 10 10 5
 Horny 10 10 9 9 9 8
High dose expectancies
 Sociable 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Jolly 2 2 3 2 3 3
 Funny 3 3 2 3 2 2
 Verbal 4 4 5 4 4 5
 Woozy 5 7 10 9 - 10
 Energetic 6 5 4 8 6 6
 Intoxicated 7 10 - 6 10 -
 Courageous 8 6 6 7 5 4
 Noisy 9 8 7 5 7 7
 Wobbly 10 - - - - -
 Horny - 9 8 10 8 8
 Cope - - 9 - 9 9