Implicit Cognition and Addiction: A Tool for Explaining Paradoxical Behavior
By Alan W. Stacy, Reinout W. Wiers. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2010
620 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Research on implicit cognition and addiction has expanded greatly during the past decade. This research area provides new ways to understand why people engage in behaviors that they know are harmful or counterproductive in the long run. Implicit cognition takes a different view from traditional cognitive approaches to addiction by assuming that behavior is often not a result of a reflective decision that takes into account the pros and cons known by the individual. Instead of a cognitive algebra integrating many cognitions relevant to choice, implicit cognition assumes that the influential cognitions are the ones that are spontaneously activated during critical decision points. This selective review highlights many of the consistent findings supporting predictive effects of implicit cognition on substance use and abuse in adolescents and adults; reveals a recent integration with dual-process models; outlines the rapid evolution of different measurement tools; and introduces new routes for intervention.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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In Applied Psychology
- Reinout W. Wiers
- E. Salemink
- Thomas E. Gladwin
- Richard Ridderinkhof
- Wilhelm Hofmann
- Matthias Brand
- Marc N. Potenza
- Klaus Wölfling
In Cognitive Neuroscience
- Wilhelm Hofmann
- Thomas E. Gladwin
- Richard Ridderinkhof
- E. Salemink
- Matthias Brand
- Marc N. Potenza
- Klaus Wölfling
- Christian Laier
In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Wilhelm Hofmann
- E. Salemink
- Thomas E. Gladwin
- Richard Ridderinkhof
- Matthias Brand
- Klaus Wölfling
- Christian Laier
- Marc N. Potenza
Citations in the corpus
- Cognitive Bias Modification and Cognitive Control Training in Addiction and Related Psychopathology (2013, methodology): “Different measures are used to this end: openended measures of first associations, derived from basic memory research (Stacy, Ames, & Grenard, 2006; Stacy & Wiers, 2010); various reaction time measures, including the most frequently used Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, &…”
- Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model. (2016, positive): “The idea that attentional biases may guide addictive behaviors fits well with recent dual-mode theories of addictive behaviors (e.g., Bechara, 2005; Evans and Coventry, 2006; Stacy and Wiers, 2010).”