'Getting into the spirit': Alcohol-related interpretation bias in heavy-drinking students

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 627-632

  Woud, Marcella L ^a   Fitzgerald, Daniel A ^a   Wiers, Reinout W ^b   Rinck, Mike ^a   Becker, Eni S ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

heavy drinking; interpretation bias; selective cognitive processing; self coding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS IDENTIFICATION TEST; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HEAVY DRINKING; HUMAN; INTERPRETATION BIAS; LIGHT DRINKING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUTGER ALCOHOL PROBLEM INDEX; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME LINE FOLLOW BACK QUESTIONNAIRE; ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOLISM; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; BINGE DRINKING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; BINGE DRINKING; CUES; CULTURE; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MENTAL RECALL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL FACILITATION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875077886     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: 19391501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029025     Document Type: Article

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