Drinking for relief: Negative affect increases automatic alcohol motivation in coping-motivated drinkers

摘要: Although there is increasing evidence that automatic alcohol motivation plays a role in drinking behavior, little research has examined the contexts elicit these processes. This study was designed to examine whether negative affect would increase strength of alcohol-approach associations individuals who drink cope with emotion. Participants consisted regular drinkers were high or low consume In session 1, participants completed an Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald in, J Pers Soc Psychol 74: 1464–1480, 1998) assess associations. 2, administered personalized imagery task (Sinha Imagery script development procedures, version 4.1. Unpublished manuscript, Yale University School Medicine, 2005) and another IAT. The results indicated induction increased coping but not motivation. These data are first document can motivational processes related alcohol.