The experiments described above indicate exposure to an alcohol-intoxicated peer altered ethanol consumption after just one pairing of social interaction with an alcohol-intoxicated peer. In the experiment described below (Figure 1), preliminary data are presented to further investigate the impact of repeated pairings of environmental cues paired with social interaction on preference for the associated environment in alcohol-naïve adolescent observer rats. In this experiment (Figure 1), we aimed to expand on the findings of Fernandez-Vidal and Molina (2004), in which they found that adolescent rats that repeated socially interacted with an alcohol-intoxicated peer showed a change in preference for an alcohol odor as compared to an appetitive banana odor. It is important to note in this social interaction experiment, the observer was never orally administered water or ethanol, therefore the observer rats were in a drug-free state and we assessed the passive social influence of social interaction with an alcohol-intoxicated peer on changes in behavior in the ethanol-naïve adolescent observer. Specifically, we assessed the impact of repeated pairings of social interaction with an alcohol-intoxicated peer paired with environmental cues on
