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Citation

Zerhouni O, Bègue L, Duke AA, Flaudias V. Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 2016; 40(2): 422-428.

Affiliation

Pôle Psychiatrie B, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/acer.12966

PMID

26842261

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Experimental studies investigating the impact of advertising with ecological stimuli on alcohol-related cognition are scarce. This research investigated the cognitive processes involved in learning implicit attitudes toward alcohol after incidental exposure to alcohol advertisements presented in a dynamic context. We hypothesized that incidental exposure to a specific alcohol brand would lead to heightened positive implicit attitudes toward alcohol due to a mere exposure effect.

METHODS: In total, 108 participants were randomly exposed to dynamic sporting events excerpts with and without advertising for a specific brand of alcohol, after completing self-reported measures of alcohol-related expectancies, alcohol consumption, and attitudes toward sport. Participants then completed a lexical decision task and an affective priming task.

RESULTS: We showed that participants were faster to detect brand name after being exposed to advertising during a sports game, and that implicit attitudes of participants toward the brand were more positive after they were exposed to advertising, even when alcohol usage patterns were controlled for.

CONCLUSIONS: Incidental exposure to alcohol sponsorship in sport events impacts implicit attitudes toward the advertised brand and alcohol in general. The effect of incidental advertising on implicit attitudes is also likely to be due to a mere exposure effect. However, further studies should address this point specifically.


Language: en

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