TY - JOUR
T1 - Implicit attitudes toward smoking
T2 - How the smell of cigarettes influences responses of college-age smokers and nonsmokers
AU - Glock, Sabine
AU - Kovacs, Carrie
AU - Unz, Dagmar
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - The habit of smoking may have automatic behavioral components guided by implicit attitudes. Smokers' attitudes toward smoking should thus be less negative than nonsmokers', so that a salient smoking cue (smell) is able to activate positive aspects of these attitudes. An affective priming task was used to explore this hypothesis. Unexpectedly, smokers and nonsmokers showed equally negative implicit attitudes, irrespective of smell. Smokers exposed to the cigarette smell did, however, display generally slower responses than nonsmokers, suggesting attentional bias. This could have implications for smoking policies in contexts where attentional factors affect performance.
AB - The habit of smoking may have automatic behavioral components guided by implicit attitudes. Smokers' attitudes toward smoking should thus be less negative than nonsmokers', so that a salient smoking cue (smell) is able to activate positive aspects of these attitudes. An affective priming task was used to explore this hypothesis. Unexpectedly, smokers and nonsmokers showed equally negative implicit attitudes, irrespective of smell. Smokers exposed to the cigarette smell did, however, display generally slower responses than nonsmokers, suggesting attentional bias. This could have implications for smoking policies in contexts where attentional factors affect performance.
KW - associative-propositional evaluation model
KW - attentional bias
KW - cigarette smell
KW - implicit attitudes
KW - smoking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899532448&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1359105313476974
DO - 10.1177/1359105313476974
M3 - Article
SN - 1461-7277
VL - 19
SP - 629
EP - 641
JO - Journal of Health Psychology
JF - Journal of Health Psychology
IS - 5
ER -