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Operant responding for alcohol following alcohol cue exposure in social drinkers.

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Cue reactivity paradigms have found that alcohol-related cues increase alcohol consumption in heavy drinkers and alcoholics. However, evidence of this relationship among non-alcohol dependent "social" drinkers is mixed, suggesting that individual differences must be considered when examining cue-induced drinking behavior. One important individual difference factor that might contribute to cue-induced drinking in the laboratory is the amount of alcohol that participants typically drink during occasions outside the laboratory. That is, those who typically consume more alcohol per occasion could display greater cue-induced drinking than those who typically drink less. The present study examined this hypothesis in healthy, non-dependent beer drinkers.

Year of Publication
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2015
Journal
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Addictive behaviors
Volume
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47
Number of Pages
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11-6
ISSN Number
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0306-4603
URL
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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0306-4603(15)00123-9
DOI
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10.1016/j.addbeh.2015.03.016
Short Title
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Addict Behav
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