Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction

Reinout W. Wiers, Alan W. Stacy, Reinout Wiers, Alan W. Stacy

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN: 9781412909747
• eBook ISBN: 9781452261669
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

"This book is a valuable source for both researchers and practitioners who are either familiar or unfamiliar with implicit cognition and addiction" —Emmanuel Kuntsche, ALCALA

Most research on cognitive processes and drug abuse has focused on theories and methods of explicit cognition, asking people directly to introspect about the causes of their behavior. However, it may be questioned to what extent such methods reflect fundamental aspects of human cognition and motivation. In response to this issue, basic cognition researchers have started to assess implicit cognitions, defined as "introspectively unidentified (or inaccurately identified) traces of past experience that mediate feeling, thought, or action." Such approaches are less sensitive to self-justification and social desirability and offer other advantages over traditional approaches underscored by explicit cognition.  

Wiers? Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction lays the groundwork for new approaches to the study and addictive behaviors as the first handbook to apply principles of implicit cognition to the field of addiction. This Handbook features the work of an interdisciplinary group of internationally renowned contributing North American and European authors who have brought together developments in basic research on implicit cognition with recent developments in addiction research.  

Key Features:

• Moves the field forward by integrating cutting-edge research from formerly independent disciplines that help provide a better understanding of the etiology, prevention, and treatment of addictive behaviors
• Lays the groundwork for new approaches to the study and treatment of addictive behaviors as the first handbook to apply principles of implicit cognition to the field of addiction
• Presents existing applications to the prevention and treatment of addictive behaviors as well as possibilities for future interventions based on new approaches based on implicit cognition
• Opens with a chapter, written by the volume editors, that outlines general theoretical issues and provides a roadmap to the book
• Provides integrative summaries – written by both "insiders" and "outsiders" to the field - in a final section, highlighting theoretical issues currently being debated within this newly emerging area of scholarship

This Handbook is a unique, invaluable addition to libraries as well as to the collections of academics, students, and professionals interested in how cognitive research can contribute to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of addictions.

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• 1 - Implicit Cognition and Addiction: An Introduction
• Section I: DEFINITIONS, GENERAL THEORETICAL ISSUES, AND FUNCTIONAL DUAL-PROCESS MODELS
• 2 - What Are Implicit Measures and Why Are We Using Them?
• 3 - A Dual-Process Approach to Behavioral Addiction: The Case of Gambling
• 4 - Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Addictive Behavior
• 5 - Measuring, Manipulating, and Modeling the Unconscious Influences of Prior Experience on Memory for Recent Experiences
• Section II: ASSESSMENT OF IMPLICIT COGNITION IN ADDICTION RESEARCH
• 6 - Word Association Tests of Associative Memory and Implicit Processes: Theoretical and Assessment Issues
• 7 - Reaction Time Measures of Substance-Related Associations
• 8 - Expectancy as a Unifying Construct in Alcohol-Related Cognition
• 9 - Individualized Versus General Measures of Addiction-Related Implicit Cognitions
• 10 - Methods, Measures, and Findings of Attentional Bias in Substance Use, Abuse, and Dependence
• 11 - Attention to Drug-Related Cues in Drug Abuse and Addiction: Component Processes
• Section III: BRAIN MECHANISMS
• 12 - Addiction and Learning in the Brain
• 13 - Imaging the Addicted Brain: Reward, Craving, and Cognitive Processes
• 14 - Psychophysiology and Implicit Cognition in Drug Use: Significance and Measurement of Motivation for Drug Use With Emphasis on Startle Tests
• 15 - Loss of Willpower: Abnormal Neural Mechanisms of Impulse Control and Decision Making in Addiction
• 16 - Implicit and Explicit Drug Motivational Processes: A Model of Boundary Conditions
• Section IV: EMOTION, MOTIVATION, CONTEXT, AND ACUTE DRUG EFFECTS ON IMPLICIT COGNITION
• 17 - Motivational Processes Underlying Implicit Cognition in Addiction
• 18 - Emotion and Motive Effectson Drug-Related Cognition
• 19 - Context and Retrieval Effects on Implicit Cognitions for Substance Use
• 20 - Acute Effects of Alcohol and Other Drugs on Automatic and Intentional Control
• Section V: IMPLICIT COGNITIONS AND DIFFERENT ADDICTIONS
• 21 - Implicit Cognition and Tobacco Addiction
• 22 - To Drink or Not to Drink: The Role of Automatic and Controlled Cognitive Processes in the Etiology of Alcohol-Related Problems
• 23 - Implicit Cognitionand Drugs of Abuse
• 24 - Implicit Cognition in Problem Gambling
• 25 - Implicit Cognition and Cross-Addictive Behaviors
• Section VI: APPLYING IMPLICIT COGNITIONS TO PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
• 26 - Automatic Processes in the Self-Regulation of Addictive Behaviors
• 27 - Relevance of Research on Experimental Psychopathology to Substance Misuse
• 28 - Adolescent Changes in Implicit Cognitions and Prevention of Substance Abuse
• 29 - Implementation Intentions: Can They Be Used to Prevent and Treat Addiction?
• Section VII: COMMENTARIES AND GENERAL DISCUSSION
• 30 - Toward a Cognitive Theory ofSubstance Use and Dependence
• 31 - Automatic Processes in Addiction: A Commentary
• 32 - Addiction: Integrating Learning Perspectives and Implicit Cognition
• 33 - Being Mindful of Automaticity in Addiction: A Clinical Perspective
• 34 - Common Themes and New Directions in Implicit Cognition and Addiction
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors