Are Alcohol Expectancies Associations? Comment on Moss and Albery (2009)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-16

  Wiers, Reinout W ^a   Stacy, Alan W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute alcohol effects; automatic and controlled processes; dual process theories

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 74049164527     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017769     Document Type: Article

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