Though it had been previously suggested that alcohol ingestion allows people to engage in inappropriate behavior, there had not been any studies specifically concerning the effect of alcohol on people’s levels of prejudice. Because of this lack of research, Reeves and Nagoshi explored this subject in 1993. The experimenters hypothesized that the subjects with predetermined high prejudice levels would increase their prejudiced actions when they believed that they had ingested alcoholic beverages. To test this hypothesis, Reeves and Nagoshi implemented a between-subjects factorial design with two independent variables. The first IV, the subjects’ level of racism, is a non-manipulative subject variable. Two levels were used; those who scored in the top or bottom 40% of the Modern Racism Scale were placed in either the high or low racism group (respectively).