Mechanisms underlying alcohol-approach action tendencies: The role of emotional primes and drinking motives

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Cousijn, Janna ^a,b   Luijten, Maartje ^c,d   Wiers, Reinout W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol abuse; Approach avoidance task; Approach bias; Drinking motives; Emotional primes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84904471024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00044     Document Type: Article

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