In February 2009 and then again in September 2010, we conducted a search of the PsycInfo database for articles examining subjective response to alcohol in lab-based challenge studies. Specifically, we searched for articles containing at least one of the following keywords: subjective intoxication, level of response, subjective perception of intoxication, biphasic alcohol effects scale, and subjective high assessment scale. Additionally, we searched for the following keywords in conjunction with alcohol or ethanol: response, subjective effects, subjective response, and differentiator model. These searches resulted in a total of 471 unique articles. We next searched the reference sections of prior review articles and critiques (Morean and Corbin, 2010; Newlin and Renton, 2010; Newlin and Thomson, 1990; Pollock, 1992) and the personal collection of the first author for potentially relevant articles not captured by the database searches. These search methods generated 44 unique articles. Finally, we searched the reference sections of relevant articles, generating 38 additional articles.
