Attentional bias to alcohol stimuli predicts elevated cue-induced craving in young adult social drinkers

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 14-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Manchery ◽  
Devorah E. Yarmush ◽  
Peter Luehring-Jones ◽  
Joel Erblich
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Social Drinkers

scholarly journals Alcohol-related Attentional Bias Variability and Conflicting Automatic Associations

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 204380871877963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Gladwin ◽  
Matthijs Vink
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Implicit Associations ◽  
Risky Drinking ◽  
Stimulus Interval ◽  
Social Drinkers ◽  
Visual Probe ◽  
Single Target ◽  
Automatic Associations ◽  
Attentional Responses

Attentional bias variability may be related to alcohol abuse. Of potential use for studying variability is the anticipatory attentional bias: Bias due to the locations of predictively-cued rather than already-presented stimuli. The hypothesis was tested that conflicting automatic associations are related to attentional bias variability. Further, relationships were explored between anticipatory biases and individual differences related to alcohol use. 74 social drinkers performed a cued Visual Probe Task and univalent Single-Target Implicit Associations Tasks. Questionnaires were completed on risky drinking, craving, and motivations to drink or refrain from drinking. Conflict was related to attentional bias variability at the 800 ms Cue-Stimulus Interval. Further, a bias related to craving and risky drinking was found at the 400 ms Cue-Stimulus Interval. Thus, the selection of attentional responses was biased by predicted locations of expected salient stimuli. The results support a role of conflicting associations in attentional bias variability.

Effects of 0.4g/kg alcohol on attentional bias and alcohol-seeking behaviour in heavy and moderate social drinkers

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1017-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Fernie ◽  
Paul Christiansen ◽  
Jon C Cole ◽  
Abigail K Rose ◽  
Matt Field
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Social Drinkers ◽  
Alcohol Seeking

scholarly journals Alcohol attention bias in 14-16 year old adolescents: an eye tracking study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey McGivern ◽  
David Curran ◽  
Donncha Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Attention Bias ◽  
Stimulus Presentation ◽  
Risk Identification ◽  
Fixation Time ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Social Drinkers ◽  
Social Drinking

Abstract Rationale Theoretical models regarding the automaticity of attentional processes highlight a progression of attentional bias style from controlled to automatic in drinking populations as alcohol use progresses. Previous research has focused on older adolescent and adult drinking populations at later stages in their drinking career. Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate alcohol attention bias in 14–16-year-old adolescent social drinkers and abstainers. Methods Alcohol attention bias was measured in social drinking and abstaining groups in an eye-tracking paradigm. Questionnaires measured alcohol use, expectancies, exposure and socially desirable response styles. Results Social drinkers fixated to alcohol stimuli more frequently and spent a larger proportion of their fixation time attending to alcohol stimuli compared to non-drinkers. Groups displayed differences in their style of attentional processing of alcohol-related information, with heavy drinkers fixating significantly longer to alcohol information across alcohol stimulus presentation and exhibiting a delayed disengagement style of alcohol attention bias that differentiated them from light drinking and abstaining peers. All social drinkers fixated significantly more than abstainers in the latter half of alcohol stimulus presentation. Conclusion Alcohol attention bias was present in this adolescent sample. Drinking subgroups are defined from abstaining peers by unique features of their attentional bias that are controlled in nature. These findings are comparable to those in other adolescent and adult social drinking populations. The identification of specific attentional bias features according to drinking subpopulations has implications for our theoretical understanding of developing alcohol attention bias and problematic drinking behaviours, as well as at-risk identification and early intervention.

Sexual Attentional Bias in Young Adult Heterosexual Men: Attention Allocation Following Self-Regulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Nolet ◽  
Fannie Carrier Emond ◽  
James G. Pfaus ◽  
Jean Gagnon ◽  
Joanne-Lucine Rouleau
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Attention Allocation ◽  
Heterosexual Men
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