Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to
the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary
and ecological momentary assessment research, it remains unclear whether people
consume more alcohol on days they experience higher negative and positive affects in
everyday life. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we synthesized the evidence for these
daily associations between affect and alcohol use. We included individual participant data�…

Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to
the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary
and ecological momentary assessment research, it remains unclear whether people
consume more alcohol on days they experience higher negative and positive affect in
everyday life. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we synthesized the evidence for these
daily associations between affect and alcohol use. We included individual participant data�…