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A Prediction Error-driven Retrieval Procedure for Destabilizing and Rewriting Maladaptive Reward Memories in Hazardous Drinkers
Published on: January 5, 2018
Implicit alcohol-related cognitions in a clinical sample of heavy drinkers
Jan De Houwer1, Geert Crombez, Ernst H W Koster
1Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, Ghent B9000, Belgium. jan.dehouwer@ugent.be
Abstract:
Patients undergoing treatment in an alcohol-rehabilitation clinic performed an Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST) and two Implicit Association Tests (IATs) that were designed to measure implicit attitudes toward alcohol or implicit alcohol-arousal associations. The EAST and IAT data indicated that patients had a more negative implicit attitude toward alcohol than toward softdrinks and possessed strong implicit alcohol-arousal associations. Our results replicate and extend those of Wiers et al. (J. Abnormal Psychol 111 (2002) 648).
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