Examining personality and alcohol expectancies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with adolescents *.

From: Journal of Studies on Alcohol | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Anderson, Kristen G.; Schweinsburg, Alecia; Paulus, Martin P.; Brown, Sandra A.; Tapert, Susan | Copyright information

Objective: Personality and alcohol expectancies have been examined as risk factors for the initiation and maintenance of alcohol use in adolescents and young adults. Differences in processing appetitive stimuli are seen as a mechanism for personality's influence on behavior, and that mechanism predisposes individuals to form more positive expectancies for alcohol. The go/no-go task has been used to show how personality differences influence responding to appetitive stimuli in adolescents an...

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