Does sleep affect alcohol-related attention bias?

Brown, Charlotte; Wilcockson, Thomas; Lunn, Judith

doi:10.1080/14659891.2020.1736670

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“…CHAIR [36–38]). One study even reports that they employed office stationery purposefully ‘so that participants would not be distracted by the control category stimuli in any way’ ([39], p. 2). While these studies have provided important contributions by demonstrating attentional bias towards alcohol‐related relative to non‐appetitive stimuli, differential responding between these stimulus categories might simply reflect a general (alcohol‐unspecific) bias to appetitive stimuli [40,41].…”

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“…CHAIR [36][37][38]). One study even reports that they employed office stationery purposefully 'so that participants would not be distracted by the control category stimuli in any way' ( [39], p. 2). While these studies have Figure 1 Percentage of tasks (total n = 68) that met the proposed methodological standards.…”

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Raising the bar: improving methodological rigour in cognitive alcohol research

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Background and Aims A range of experimental paradigms claim to measure the cognitive processes underpinning alcohol use, suggesting that heightened attentional bias, greater approach tendencies and reduced cue‐specific inhibitory control are important drivers of consumption. This paper identifies methodological shortcomings within this broad domain of research and exemplifies them in studies focused specifically on alcohol‐related attentional bias. Argument and analysis We highlight five main methodological issues: (i) the use of inappropriately matched control stimuli; (ii) opacity of stimulus selection and validation procedures; (iii) a credence in noisy measures; (iv) a reliance on unreliable tasks; and (v) variability in design and analysis. This is evidenced through a review of alcohol‐related attentional bias (64 empirical articles, 68 tasks), which reveals the following: only 53% of tasks use appropriately matched control stimuli; as few as 38% report their stimulus selection and 19% their validation procedures; less than 28% used indices capable of disambiguating attentional processes; 22% assess reliability; and under 2% of studies were pre‐registered. Conclusions Well‐matched and validated experimental stimuli, the development of reliable cognitive tasks and explicit assessment of their psychometric properties, and careful consideration of behavioural indices and their analysis will improve the methodological rigour of cognitive alcohol research. Open science principles can facilitate replication and reproducibility in alcohol research.

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Raising the bar: improving methodological rigour in cognitive alcohol research

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Raising the Bar: Improving Methodological Rigour in Cognitive Alcohol Research

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Background & Aims: A range of experimental paradigms claim to measure the cognitive processes underpinning alcohol use, suggesting that heightened attentional bias, greater approach tendencies and reduced cue-specific inhibitory control are important drivers of consumption. This paper identifies substantial methodological shortcomings within this broad domain of research, however, and exemplifies them in studies focused specifically on alcohol-related attentional bias. Argument/Analysis: We highlight five main methodological issues: (i) the use of inappropriately matched control stimuli; (ii) opacity of stimulus selection and validation procedures; (iii) a credence in noisy measures; (iv) a reliance on unreliable tasks; and (v) variability in design and analysis. This is evidenced through a review of alcohol-related attentional bias (64 empirical articles, 68 tasks), which reveals the following: only 53% of tasks utilise appropriately matched control stimuli; as few as 38% report their stimulus selection and 19% their validation procedures; less than 28% used indices capable of disambiguating attentional processes; 22% assess reliability; and under 2% of studies were preregistered. Conclusions: Substantial improvements are required to improve the methodological rigour of cognitive alcohol research. To facilitate this, we provide a practical guide for future research: we advocate the use of well-matched and validated experimental stimuli, the development of reliable cognitive tasks and explicit assessment of their psychometric properties, and careful consideration of behavioural indices and their analysis. Further, we discuss open science principles that can facilitate replication and reproducibility in alcohol research, thereby enhancing trust in a field that has significant implications for public health and policy.

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Does sleep affect alcohol-related attention bias?

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Raising the bar: improving methodological rigour in cognitive alcohol research

Raising the bar: improving methodological rigour in cognitive alcohol research

Raising the Bar: Improving Methodological Rigour in Cognitive Alcohol Research

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