Implicit Cognition and Addiction
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Implicit Cognition and Addiction
Extensive recent research has begun to unravel the more implicit or automatic cognitive mechanisms in addiction. This effort has increased our understanding of some of the perplexing characteristics of addictive behaviors. The problem, often, is not that substance abusers do not understand that the disadvantages of continued use outweigh the advantages; rather, they have difficulty resisting th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Directions in Psychological Science
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0963-7214,1467-8721
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00455.x