Alcohol dependent patients have weak negative rather than strong positive implicit alcohol associations

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 603-610

  Dickson, Joanne M ^a   Gately, Claire ^a   Field, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Implicit associations; Outcome expectancies; Unipolar implicit association test

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; AMBIVALENCE; APPROACH AND AVOIDANCE OF ALCOHOL QUESTIONNAIRE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPREHENSIVE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL QUESTIONNAIRE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LEEDS DEPENDENCE QUESTIONNAIRE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881259409     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3066-0     Document Type: Article

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