Beer makes the heart grow fonder: Single-Target implicit attitudes toward beer but not alcohol are related to drinking behaviour in regular beer drinkers

Netherlands Journal of Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-21

  Houben, Katrijn ^a   Wiers, Reinout W ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Implicit Association Test; Implicit attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751496991     PISSN: 1872552X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03080123     Document Type: Article

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