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Alcohol and Alcoholism 2007 42(6):560-566; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agm064
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Medical Council on Alcohol.

Stress increases attentional bias for alcohol cues in social drinkers who drink to cope

Matt Field* and Hannah Powell

School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, UK

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed at: School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, UK. Tel: 0151 7941137; Fax: 0151 7942945; E-mail: mfield{at}liverpool.ac.uk

Received 17 April 2007; ; accepted 24 July 2007


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Aims: To investigate the effects of stress on alcohol craving and attentional bias for alcohol-related cues in a group of heavy social drinkers. Method: Forty-four heavy social drinkers were exposed to either a laboratory stressor task or a control manipulation before completing a questionnaire measure of alcohol craving and a visual probe task which measured attentional bias for alcohol-related cues. Participants were subdivided into those with high and low levels of coping motives for drinking. Results: Compared to a control manipulation, the laboratory stressor task produced increases in alcohol craving (P < 0.01). The laboratory stressor task also produced a significant attentional bias for alcohol-related cues, but only among participants who had high levels of coping motives (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Findings are broadly consistent with contemporary negative reinforcement models of substance abuse, and with models of subjective craving and attentional biases for substance-related cues.


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