Attentional bias and addictive behaviour: Automaticity in a gambling-specific modified Stroop task

Addiction

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-70

  Boyer, Morten ^a   Dickerson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Addiction; Addictive behaviour; Attention; Automaticity; Gambling; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATION; COGNITION; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL TASK; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PLAY; SELF CONTROL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0037221647     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00219.x     Document Type: Article

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