Trial reportExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2015
Marijuana's acute effects on cognitive bias for affective and marijuana cues.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effects of cannabis use on salience attribution: a systematic review.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2018Pooled it
- Influence of cannabis potency on mental health outcomes among adolescents and young adults: scoping review.BJPsych open · 2026Review
- Intentions matter: How planned and unplanned alcohol and cannabis use influences outcomes.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
- Sex differences in the acute effects of cannabis: the need for hypothesis-driven research.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2026Article
- Naturalistic substance use before/during MTurk research participation is associated with increased substance demand and craving.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Self-Protection in the Social Context: A Daily-Level Examination of Young Adult Women's Perceived Need for and Engagement in Sexual Assault Protective Behavioral Strategies.Psychology of violence · 2024Article
- Social Psychopharmacology: Novel Approaches to Treat Deficits in Social Motivation in Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Review
- The effects of alcohol and marijuana co-use patterns on intimate partner aggression perpetration.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Prospective, longitudinal study to isolate the impacts of marijuana use on neurocognitive functioning in adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Using an Optimized Marijuana Purchase Task to Examine Cannabis Demand in Relation to Cannabis Misuse in Heavy Drinking Emerging Adults.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2021Article
- Human Laboratory Models of Cannabis Use: Applications for Clinical and Translational Psychiatry Research.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Brain activation to cannabis- and alcohol-related words in alcohol use disorder.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2019Article
- Dysregulation as a correlate of cannabis use and problem use.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- Attentional bias to cannabis cues in cannabis users but not cocaine users.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- Marijuana use is associated with intimate partner violence perpetration among men arrested for domestic violence.Translational issues in psychological science · 2018Article
- Individual and combined effects of cannabis and tobacco on drug reward processing in non-dependent users.Psychopharmacology · 2017Article
- Development and initial validation of a marijuana cessation expectancies questionnaire.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2017Article
- Latent factor structure of a behavioral economic marijuana demand curve.Psychopharmacology · 2017Article
- Anxiety Sensitivity and Distress Intolerance as Predictors of Cannabis Dependence Symptoms, Problems, and Craving: The Mediating Role of Coping Motives.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2016Article
- Cue-elicited increases in incentive salience for marijuana: Craving, demand, and attentional bias.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Article
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Abstract
Marijuana produces acute increases in positive subjective effects and decreased reactivity to negative affective stimuli, though may also acutely induce anxiety. Implicit attentional and evaluative processes may explicate marijuana's ability to acutely increase positive and negative emotions. This within-subjects study examined whether smoked marijuana with 2.7-3.0% delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), relative to placebo, acutely changed attentional processing of rewarding and negative affective stimuli as well as marijuana-specific stimuli. On 2 separate days, regular marijuana users (N = 89) smoked placebo or active THC cigarette and completed subjective ratings of mood, intoxication, urge to smoke marijuana, and 2 experimental tasks: pleasantness rating (response latency and perceived pleasantness of affective and marijuana-related stimuli) and emotional Stroop (attentional bias to affective stimuli). On the pleasantness rating task, active marijuana increased response latency to negatively valenced and marijuana-related (vs. neutral) visual stimuli, beyond a general slowing of response. Active marijuana also increased pleasantness ratings of marijuana images, although to a lesser extent than placebo due to reduced marijuana urge after smoking. Overall, active marijuana did not acutely change processing of positive emotional stimuli. There was no evidence of attentional bias to affective word stimuli on the emotional Stroop task with the exception of attentional bias to positive word stimuli in the subgroup of marijuana users with cannabis dependence. Marijuana may increase allocation of attentional resources toward marijuana-specific and negatively valenced visual stimuli without altering processing of positively valenced stimuli. Marijuana-specific cues may be more attractive with higher levels of marijuana craving and less wanted with low craving levels.
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