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Graduate Theses and Dissertations

2017

Attentional Bias

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Liking, Craving, And Attentional Bias In Non-Dependent Drinkers, David Lovett Dec 2017

Liking, Craving, And Attentional Bias In Non-Dependent Drinkers, David Lovett

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The purpose of the present study was to better understand alcohol use problems by examining the effect of alcohol liking on alcohol attentional bias among non-dependent drinkers. An adapted model of Robinson and Berridge’s (1993) incentive-sensitization theory of addiction was proposed which theorized that manipulation of alcohol liking would produce alcohol attentional bias (assessed via visual probe task) among non-dependent drinkers. To test this adapted model, alcohol liking was manipulated and the effect on alcohol attentional bias was examined. Participants were 53 legal-age, college drinkers (Mage = 23.49; 32.1% female; 67.9% White Non-Hispanic). Participants completed measures of alcohol drink preference, …