@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol-related words are distracting to both alcohol abusers and non-abusers in the Stroop colour-naming task",
journal="Addiction",
year="1998",
author="Bauer, D. and Cox, W. M.",
volume="93",
number="10",
pages="1539-1542",
abstract="AIM: To compare alcohol abusers' and non-abusers' distraction for alcohol-related and emotional words, controlling for emotional valence of those words. DESIGN AND METHOD: The experiment compared 20 alcohol abusers and 20 non-abusers in terms of performance on a computerized Stroop colour-naming test using alcohol-related and non-alcohol-related words. FINDINGS: Abusers rated the alcohol stimuli greater in emotional valence than the emotional stimuli. Therefore, differences in emotional-valence ratings between the two groups were statistically controlled. Against expectation, both alcohol abusers and non-abusers were more distracted by alcohol stimuli than by positive or negative emotional stimuli. CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate that alcohol words are distracting for drinkers in general, and this may indicate a high level of salience for these kinds of stimuli.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0965-2140",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}