作者: Ian P. Albery , Antony C. Moss , Nicola Davidson , S. Mba , Ursula Blaszko
DOI: 10.1080/14659891.2018.1436606
关键词: Psychology 、 Addiction 、 Attentional bias 、 Modified stroop 、 Expectancy theory 、 Stroop effect 、 Secondary task 、 Cognitive psychology 、 Cognition 、 Psychoactive substance
摘要: ABSTRACTBackground: Novel psychoactive substance (NPS) use has emerged as a new trend in the recreational drug market with increasing prevalence and availability rates. Little evidence focussed on psychologically based cognitive/motivational processes that may increase likelihood of continuing NPS leading to habitual behavior patterns/dependence. One such process, highlighted studies examining plethora addictive behaviors, concerns users’ preferential attention (attentional bias) concern-related stimuli. Methods: The current study assessed whether users compared never showed differential attentional processing (i) NPS-related words, (ii) positive expectancy (iii) negative words modified Stroop task. Results: For users, only expectancies captured increased attention—the semantic nature word interfered secondary task color-naming ink within In addition, magnitude ...