Studying Implicit Attitudes Towards Smoking: Event-Related Potentials in the Go/NoGo Association Task.

ABSTRACT: Cigarette smoking and other addictive behaviors are among the main preventable risk factors for several severe and potentially fatal diseases. It has been argued that addictive behavior is controlled by an automatic-implicit cognitive system and by a reflective-explicit cognitive system, that operate in parallel to jointly drive human behavior. The present study addresses the formation of implicit attitudes towards smoking in both smokers and non-smokers, using a Go/NoGo association task (GNAT), and behavioral and electroencephalographic (EEG) measures. The GNAT assesses, via quantifying participants' reaction times, the strength of association between a target category and either pole of an evaluative dimension (positive or negative). EEG analysis is performed to determine the temp

SUBMITTER: Wagner-Altendorf TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7892465 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature