Attentional Bias in Problem Gambling: A Systematic Review

Journal of Gambling Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 359-375

  Hønsi, Audhild ^a   Mentzoni, Rune Aune ^a   Molde, Helge ^a   Pallesen, Ståle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Addiction; Attention; Attentional bias; Problem gambling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883758373     PISSN: 10505350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10899-012-9315-z     Document Type: Review

References (58)

1. Allport, A. (1989). Visual attention. In M. I. Posner (Ed.), Foundations of cognitive science (pp. 631-682). Cambridge: MIT Press.
2. American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text revision). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
3. Andrew, J. W., Sayette, M., Franken, I. H. A., & Schwartz, J. E. (2005). Generalizability of carry-over effects in the emotional Stroop task. Behaviour Research and Therapy. doi: 10. 1016/j. brat. 2004. 06. 003.
4. Atkins, G., & Sharpe, L. (2003). Cognitive biases in problem gambling. Gambling Research: Journal of the National Association for Gambling Studies, 15(2), 35.
5. Baker, T. B., Morse, E., & Sherman, J. E. (1986). The motivation to use drugs: A psychobiological analysis of urges. Nebraska Symposium of Motivation, 34, 257-323.
6. Blaszczynski, A., & Nower, L. (2002). A pathways model of problem and pathological gambling. Addiction. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1360-0443. 2002. 00015. x.
7. Boyer, M., & Dickerson, M. (2003). Attentional bias and addictive behaviour: automaticity in a gambling-specific modified Stroop task. Addiction, 98(1), 61-70.
8. Bradley, B. P., Garner, M., Hudson, L., & Mogg, K. (2007). Influence of negative affect on selective attention to smoking-related cues and urge to smoke in cigarette smokers. Behavioural Pharmacology, 18, 255-263.
9. Brevers, D., Cleeremans, A., Bechara, A., Laloyaux, C., Kornreich, C., Verbanck, P., et al. (2011a). Time course of attentional bias for gambling information in problem gambling. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. doi: 10. 1037/a0024201.
10. Brevers, D., Cleeremans, A., Tibboel, H., Bechara, A., Kornreich, C., Verbanck, P., et al. (2011b). Reduced attentional blink for gambling-related stimuli in problem gamblers. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. doi: 10. 1016/j. jbtep. 2011. 01. 005.
11. Cane, J. E., Sharma, D., & Albery, I. P. (2009). The addiction Stroop task: Examining the fast and slow effects of smoking and marijuana-related cues. Journal of Psychopharmacology. doi: 10. 1177/0269881108091253.
12. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
13. Cox, W. M., Fadardi, J. S., & Pothos, E. M. (2006). The addiction-Stroop test: Theoretical considerations and procedural recommendations. Psychological Bulletin. doi: 10. 1037/0033-2909. 132. 3. 443.
14. Crockford, D. N., Goodyear, B., Edwards, J., Quickfall, J., & El-Guebaly, N. (2005). Cue-induced brain activity in pathological gamblers. Biological Psychiatry. doi: 10. 1016/j. biopsych. 2005. 04. 037.
15. Diskin, K. M., & Hodgins, D. C. (1999). Narrowing of attention and dissociation in pathological video lottery gamblers. Journal of Gambling Studies, 15(1), 17-28.
16. Diskin, K. M., & Hodgins, D. C. (2001). Narrowed focus and dissociative experiences in a community sample of experienced video lottery gamblers. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 33(1), 58-64.
17. Duka, T., & Townshend, J. M. (2004). The priming effect of alcohol pre-load on attentional bias to alcohol-related stimuli. Psychopharmacology (Berl). doi: 10. 1007/s00213-004-1906-7.
18. Fadardi, J. S., & Cox, W. M. (2009). Reversing the sequence: Reducing alcohol consumption by overcoming alcohol attentional bias. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. doi: 10. 1016/j. drugalcdep. 2008. 11. 015.
19. Ferris, J., Wynne, H., & Single, E. (1999). Measuring problem gambling in Canada, final report: Phase I. Inter-Provincial Task Force on Problem Gambling, Canadian centre for Substance Abuse.
20. Field, M. (2010). Can't take my eyes of you. The Psychologist, 23, 636-639.
21. Field, M., & Cox, W. M. (2008). Attentional bias in addictive behaviors: A review of its development, causes, and consequences. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. doi: 10. 1016/j. drugalcdep. 2008. 03. 030.
22. Field, M., Mogg, K., & Bradley, B. P. (2005). Alcohol increases cognitive biases for smoking cues in smokers. Psychopharmacology (Berl). doi: 10. 1007/s00213-005-2251-1.
23. Field, M., Mogg, K., Zetteler, J., & Bradley, B. P. (2004). Attentional biases for alcohol cues in heavy and light social drinkers: The roles of initial orienting and maintained attention. Psychopharmacology (Berl). doi: 10. 1007/s00213-004-1855-1.
24. Field, M., Munafò, M. R., & Franken, I. H. A. (2009). A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between attentional bias and subjective craving in substance abuse. Psychological Bulletin. doi: 10. 1037/a0015843.
25. Field, M., & Powell, H. (2007). Stress increases attentional bias for alcohol cues in drinkers who drink to cope. Alcohol and Alcoholism. doi: 10. 1093/alcalc/agm064.
26. Franken, I. H. A. (2003). Drug craving and addiction: Integrating psychological and neuropsychopharmacological approaches. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. doi: 10. 1016/S0278-5846(03)00081-2.
27. Hogarth, L., Dickinson, A., Janowski, M., Nikitina, A., & Duka, T. (2008). The role of attentional bias in mediating human drug-seeking behaviour. Psychopharmacology (Berl). doi: 10. 1007/s00213-008-1244-2.
28. Klinger, E., & Cox, W. M. (2004). Motivation and the theory of current concern. In W. M. Cox & E. Klinger (Eds.), Handbook of motivational counseling: Concepts, approaches, and assessment (pp. 3-27). West Sussex: Wiley.
29. LaBerge, D. (1995). Attentional processing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
30. Lubman, D. I., Allen, N. B., Peters, L. A., & Deakin, J. F. W. (2008). Electrophysiological evidence that drug cues have greater salience than other affective stimuli in opiate addiction. Journal of Psychopharmacology. doi: 10. 1177/0269881107083846.
31. McCusker, C. G. (2001). Cognitive biases and addiction: An evolution in theory and method. Addiction. doi: 10. 1080/09652140020016950.
32. McCusker, C. G., & Gettings, B. (1997). Automaticity of cognitive biases in addictive behaviours: Further evidence with gamblers. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 36(4), 543-554.
33. Miller, M. A., & Fillmore, M. T. (2010). The effect of image complexity on attentional bias towards alcohol-related images in adult drinkers. Addiction. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1360-0443. 2009. 02860. x.
34. Molde, H., Pallesen, S., Sætrevik, B., Hammerborg, D., Laberg, J., & Johnsen, B. H. (2010). Attentional biases among pathological gamblers. International Journal of Gambling Studies. doi: 10. 1080/14459791003652501.
35. Myrseth, H., Brunborg, G. S., & Eidem, M. (2010). Differences in cognitive distortions between pathological and non-pathological gamblers with preferences for chance or skill games. Journal of Gambling Studies. doi: 10. 1007/s10899-010-9180-6.
36. Namkoong, K., Lee, E., Lee, C. H., Lee, B. O., & An, S. K. (2004). Increased P3 amplitudes induced by alcohol-related pictures in patients with alcohol dependence. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research. doi: 10. 1097/01. ALC. 0000139828. 78099. 69.
37. Noel, X., Colmant, M., van Der Linden, M., Bechara, A., Bullens, Q., Hanak, C., et al. (2006). Time course of attention for alcohol cues in abstinent alcoholic patients: The role of initial orienting. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1530-0277. 2006. 00224. x.
38. Petry, N. M., Stinson, F. S., & Grant, B. F. (2005). Comorbidity of DSM-IV PG and other psychiatric disorders: Results from the national epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 66, 564-574.
39. Phaf, R. H., & Kan, K. J. (2007). The automaticity of emotional Stroop: A meta-analysis. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. doi: 10. 1016/j. jbtep. 2006. 10. 008.
40. Potenza, M. N. (2008). The neurobiology of pathological gambling and drug addiction: an overview and new findings. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. doi: 10. 1098/rstb. 2008. 0100.
41. Ramond, J. E., Shapiro, K. L., & Arnell, K. M. (1992). Temporary suppression of visual processing in an RSVP task: An attentional blink? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18(3), 849-860.
42. Raylu, N., & Oei, T. P. S. (2002). Pathological gambling: A comprehensive review. Clinical Psychology Review. doi: 10. 1016/S0272-7358(02)00101-0.
43. Robbins, S. J., & Ehrman, R. N. (2004). The role of attentional bias in substance abuse. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews. doi: 10. 1177/1534582305275423.
44. Robinson, T. E., & Berridge, K. C. (1993). The neural basis of drug craving-an incentive-sensitization theory of addiction. Brain Research Reviews, 18(3), 247-291.
45. Robinson, T. E., & Berridge, K. C. (2008). The incentive sensitization theory of addiction: Some current issues. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. doi: 10. 1098/rstb. 2008. 0093.
46. Rooke, S. E., Hine, D. W., & Thorsteinsson, E. B. (2008). Implicit cognition and substance use: A meta-analysis. Addictive Behaviors. doi: 10. 1016/j. addbeh. 2008. 06. 009.
47. Schoenmakers, T. M., de Bruin, M., Lux, I. F. M., Goertz, A. G., van Kerkhof, D. H. A. T., & Wiers, R. W. (2010). Clinical effectiveness of attentional bias modification training in abstinent alcoholic patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. doi: 10. 1016/j. drugalcdep. 2009. 11. 022.
48. Schoenmakers, T., Wiers, R. W., & Field, M. (2008). Effects of a low dose of alcohol on cognitive biases and craving in heavy drinkers. Psychopharmacology (Berl). doi: 10. 1007/s00213-007-1023-5.
49. Stacy, A. W., & Wiers, R. W. (2010). Implicit cognition and addiction: A tool for explaining paradoxical behavior. Annual Reviews of Clinical Psychology. doi: 10. 1146/annurev. clinpsy. 121208. 131444.
50. Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-662.
51. Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., & Field, M. (2010). Reduced attentional blink for alcohol-related stimuli in heavy social drinkers. Journal of Psychopharmacology. doi: 10. 1177/0269881109106977.
52. Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., Spruyt, A., Field, M., Kemps, E., & Crombez, G. (2011). Testing the validity of implicit measures of wanting and liking. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. doi: 10. 1016/j. jbtep. 2011. 01. 002.
53. Tiffany, S. T. (1990). A cognitive model of drug urges and drug-use behavior: Role of automatic and nonautomatic processes. Psychological Review, 97(2), 147-168.
54. van Holst, R., van den Brink, W., Veltman, D., & Goudriaan, A. (2010). Why gamblers fail to win: A review of cognitive and neuroimaging findings in pathological gambling. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. doi: 10. 1016/j. neubiorev. 2009. 07. 007.
55. Waters, A. J., Heishman, S. J., Lerman, C., & Pickworth, W. (2007). Enhanced identification of smoking-related words during the attentional blink in smokers. Addictive Behaviors. doi: 10. 1016/j. addbeh. 2007. 05. 016.
56. Wölfling, K., Mörsen, C. P., Duven, E., Albrecht, U., Grüsser, S. M., & Flor, H. (2011). To gamble or not to gamble: At risk for craving and relapse-learned motivated attention in pathological gambling. Biological Psychology. doi: 10. 1016/j. biopsycho. 2011. 03. 010.
57. Zack, M., & Poulos, C. X. (2004). Amphetamine primes motivation to gamble and gambling-related semantic networks in problem gamblers. Neuropsychopharmacology. doi: 10. 1038/sj. npp. 1300333.
58. Zack, M., & Poulos, C. X. (2007). A D2 antagonist enhances the rewarding and priming effects of a gambling episode in pathological gamblers. Neuropsychopharmacology. doi: 10. 1038/sj. npp. 1301295.