@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol abusers' and nonabusers' distraction by alcohol and concern-related stimuli",
journal="American journal of drug and alcohol abuse encompassing all addictive disorders",
year="2000",
author="Cox, W. M. and Blount, J. P. and Rozak, A. M.",
volume="26",
number="3",
pages="489-495",
abstract="Alcohol abusers' and nonabusers' attentional distraction for neutral, alcohol-related, and concern-related (personally relevant) words was assessed with a word-word color-naming task. Abusers, unlike nonabusers, showed greater attentional distraction for alcohol-related than concern-related words. Exploratory analyses indicated that abusers who were more distracted by alcohol-related than concern-related stimuli (i.e., &quot;alcohol distracted&quot;) responded more slowly to neutral words than &quot;concern-distracted&quot; participants. The results suggest that the relative degree of distraction by alcohol versus other personally relevant stimuli holds promise for understanding the cognitive and motivational processes underlying alcohol abuse.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0095-2990",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}