TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Implicit alcohol-related expectancies and the effect of context
JO  - Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs
A1  - Monk, Rebecca L.
A1  - Pennington, Charlotte R.
A1  - Campbell, Claire
A1  - Price, Alan
A1  - Heim, Derek
SP  - 819
EP  - 827
VL  - 77
IS  - 5
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The current study examined the impact of varying pictorial cues and testing contexts on implicit alcohol-related expectancies. <br><br>METHOD: Seventy-six participants were assigned randomly to complete an Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) in either a pub or lecture context. The IRAP exposed participants to pictorial cues that depicted an alcoholic beverage in the foreground of a pub (alcohol-congruent stimuli) or university lecture theater (alcohol-incongruent stimuli), and participants were required to match both positive and negative alcohol-related outcome expectancies to these stimuli. Corresponding to a 4 × 2 design, IRAP trial types were included in the analysis as repeated-measure variables, whereas testing environment was input as a between-participants variable. <br><br>RESULTS: Participants more readily endorsed that drinking alcohol was related to positive expectancies when responding to alcohol-congruent stimuli, and this was strengthened when participants completed the task in a pub. Moreover, they more readily confirmed that alcohol was related to negative expectancies when responding to alcohol-incongruent stimuli. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that alcohol-related cues and environmental contexts may be a significant driver of positive alcohol-related cognitions, which may have implications for the design of interventions. They emphasize further the importance of examining implicit cognitions in ecologically valid testing contexts.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1937-1888
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -