Preconscious attentional bias in cigarette smokers: A probe into awareness modulation on attentional bias

Addiction Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 478-488

  Yan, Xiaodan ^a,b   Jiang, Yi ^a,c   Wang, Jin ^a   Deng, Yuan ^a   He, Sheng ^c   Weng, Xuchu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Awareness; CDS; QSU brief; Tobacco; WISMD 68

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; CIGARETTE DEPENDENCE SCALE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; QUESTIONNAIRES OF SMOKING URGE; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70049099569     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2009.00172.x     Document Type: Article

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