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The effects of alcohol cue exposure on non-dependent drinkers' attentional bias for alcohol-related stimuli

The effects of alcohol cue exposure on non-dependent drinkers' attentional bias for alcohol-related stimuli
The effects of alcohol cue exposure on non-dependent drinkers' attentional bias for alcohol-related stimuli
Aims: The effects of university students’ habitual drinking practices and experimental alcohol cue exposure on their attentional bias for alcohol-related stimuli were assessed.
Methods: Participants were exposed in vivo to either an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage immediately prior to completing a cognitively demanding emotional Stroop task that uses alcohol-related and control words as potential distractors.
Results: Regression analyses indicated that, for participants who were low consumers of alcohol, neither level of habitual drinking, type of cue exposure, nor their interaction predicted attentional bias for the alcohol-related stimuli. For high consumers of alcohol who were exposed to the alcoholic beverage (but not those exposed to the non-alcoholic beverage), the amount of alcohol that participants habitually drank significantly predicted the degree of attentional bias.
Conclusions: The results indicate that, among non-dependent drinkers (unlike alcohol-dependent participants), alcohol-related attentional bias is not a generalized phenomenon, but occurs only under a specific set of circumstances.
0735-0414
45-49
Cox, W. Miles
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Brown, Michael A.
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Rowlands, Lisa J.
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Brown, Michael A.
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Cox, W. Miles, Brown, Michael A. and Rowlands, Lisa J. (2003) The effects of alcohol cue exposure on non-dependent drinkers' attentional bias for alcohol-related stimuli. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 38 (1), 45-49. (doi:10.1093/alcalc/agg010).

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Aims: The effects of university students’ habitual drinking practices and experimental alcohol cue exposure on their attentional bias for alcohol-related stimuli were assessed.
Methods: Participants were exposed in vivo to either an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage immediately prior to completing a cognitively demanding emotional Stroop task that uses alcohol-related and control words as potential distractors.
Results: Regression analyses indicated that, for participants who were low consumers of alcohol, neither level of habitual drinking, type of cue exposure, nor their interaction predicted attentional bias for the alcohol-related stimuli. For high consumers of alcohol who were exposed to the alcoholic beverage (but not those exposed to the non-alcoholic beverage), the amount of alcohol that participants habitually drank significantly predicted the degree of attentional bias.
Conclusions: The results indicate that, among non-dependent drinkers (unlike alcohol-dependent participants), alcohol-related attentional bias is not a generalized phenomenon, but occurs only under a specific set of circumstances.

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Published date: January 2003

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Local EPrints ID: 18469
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/18469
ISSN: 0735-0414
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Date deposited: 15 Dec 2005
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 06:05

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Author: W. Miles Cox
Author: Michael A. Brown
Author: Lisa J. Rowlands

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