Approaching avoidance: A step essential to the understanding of craving

Alcohol Research and Health

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 197-206

  Breiner, Mary Jo ^a   Stritzke, Werner G K ^b   Lang, Alan R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol cue; AOD (alcohol and other drug) craving; AOD prevention; AOD sensitivity; Avoidance conditioning; Causal model; Causes of AODU; Classical conditioning; Expectancy; Motivation; Predictive factors; Theory of AODU (alcohol and other drug use)

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CUES; HUMANS; MOTIVATION;

EID: 0033291158     PISSN: 0090838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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