SynthesisPsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2018
The effect of laboratory manipulations of negative affect on alcohol craving and use: A meta-analysis.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Emotion regulation and substance use: A meta-analysis.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Pooled it
- Experimental manipulations of behavioral economic demand for addictive commodities: a meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2020Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of the effect of substance use interventions on emotion outcomes.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2019Pooled it
- The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data.Psychological bulletinPooled it
- How people decide to consume (more) alcohol when feeling stressed.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Trial
- Intranasal oxytocin blunts amygdala response to negative affective stimuli in males and females with alcohol use disorder: a randomized controlled cross-over trial.Psychopharmacology · 2025Trial
- The Influence of Winning and Losing Gambling Experience on Mood State and Alcohol Cravings.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Trial
- Mechanisms of behavior change during alcohol treatment among negative affect drinkers: A time-varying effect model analysis using 84 consecutive days of ecological momentary assessment.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Trial
- The role of negative affect in the association between attention bias to threat and posttraumatic stress: An eye-tracking study.Psychiatry research · 2020Trial
- Joint effects of real-world cue exposure and affective states on momentary alcohol craving in adults with alcohol use disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
- Craving mediates the association between affect and substance use in daily life among individuals with substance use disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
- Alcohol misuse and negative emotion processing in neurotypical drinkers: Sex differences in behavioral and neural markers.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2026Article
- The role of distress tolerance in the momentary relationship between negative affect and drinking in daily life.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
- Testing the robustness of daily associations of affect with alcohol and cannabis use.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Daily Sexual Objectification As a Proximal Risk Factor for Craving and Alcohol Use After Sexual Assault: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- Thinking when I'm drinking: The interaction of mood and rumination across drinking and non-drinking days.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Physical context of alcohol use and craving: An EMA exploratory study.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- The effect of stress on delay discounting in female patients with early-onset bulimia nervosa and alcohol use disorder: functional magnetic resonance imaging study.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Ecological momentary assessment and mediation analyses reveal relationships between affect, craving, and substance use in daily life.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Scientific and lay theories propose that negative affect plays a causal role in problematic alcohol use. Despite this common belief, supporting experimental evidence has been mixed. Thus, the goals of this study were to (a) meta-analytically quantify the degree to which experimentally manipulated negative affect influenced alcohol use and craving in the laboratory, (b) examine whether the size of this effect depended on key manipulation characteristics (i.e., self-relevance of the stressor, timing of the end of the stressor, and strength of negative affect induction) or sample characteristics (i.e., substance use history). Across 41 studies (
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