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Out for a smoke: the impact of cigarette craving on zoning out during reading

Out for a smoke: the impact of cigarette craving on zoning out during reading
Out for a smoke: the impact of cigarette craving on zoning out during reading
Cigarette craving has powerful effects on cognitive functioning, which may promote smoking behavior and relapse. One area of cognition that has had little impact on craving research is human consciousness. Developments in consciousness research using a mindless-reading paradigm permit examination of the effects of craving on both the occurrence and the awareness of mental lapses. Forty-four smokers, who were either nicotine deprived (crave condition) or nondeprived (low-crave condition), performed a mindless-reading task. This task assesses both self-caught and probe-caught mind-wandering episodes to distinguish between lapses that are within and outside of awareness. Compared with the low cravers, those in the cigarette-crave condition were significantly more likely to acknowledge that their mind was wandering when they were probed. When we adjusted for this more-than-threefold increase in zoning out, craving also lowered the probability of catching oneself. Results suggest that craving simultaneously increases mental lapses while reducing the metacognitive capacity to notice them.
cigarette craving, smoking craving, mind wandering, zoning out
0956-7976
26-30
Sayette, Michael A.
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Schooler, Jonathan W.
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Reichle, Erik D.
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Sayette, Michael A.
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Schooler, Jonathan W.
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Reichle, Erik D.
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Sayette, Michael A., Schooler, Jonathan W. and Reichle, Erik D. (2010) Out for a smoke: the impact of cigarette craving on zoning out during reading. Psychological Science, 21 (1), 26-30. (doi:10.1177/0956797609354059). (PMID:20424018)

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Cigarette craving has powerful effects on cognitive functioning, which may promote smoking behavior and relapse. One area of cognition that has had little impact on craving research is human consciousness. Developments in consciousness research using a mindless-reading paradigm permit examination of the effects of craving on both the occurrence and the awareness of mental lapses. Forty-four smokers, who were either nicotine deprived (crave condition) or nondeprived (low-crave condition), performed a mindless-reading task. This task assesses both self-caught and probe-caught mind-wandering episodes to distinguish between lapses that are within and outside of awareness. Compared with the low cravers, those in the cigarette-crave condition were significantly more likely to acknowledge that their mind was wandering when they were probed. When we adjusted for this more-than-threefold increase in zoning out, craving also lowered the probability of catching oneself. Results suggest that craving simultaneously increases mental lapses while reducing the metacognitive capacity to notice them.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 23 November 2009
Published date: January 2010
Keywords: cigarette craving, smoking craving, mind wandering, zoning out
Organisations: Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 348428
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/348428
ISSN: 0956-7976
PURE UUID: 67342f06-e8ef-407f-b86d-8bc25be4d3b4

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Date deposited: 13 Feb 2013 10:00
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 12:59

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Author: Michael A. Sayette
Author: Jonathan W. Schooler
Author: Erik D. Reichle

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