Esther van den Wildenberg

TL;DR: It is emphasized that adolescent alcohol use primarily takes place in a social context, and that therefore studies should not solely focus on intra-individual factors predicting substance use and misuse but also on interpersonal social factors.

TL;DR: It is suggested that an EC successfully changes explicit alcohol cognitions and that this may have short-lived beneficial effects in heavy drinking young men.

TL;DR: A stronger urge to drink alcohol after exposure to an alcoholic beverage might contribute to a heightened risk for developing alcohol-related problems in individuals with a copy of the G allele, which might also predispose to drug use in general.

TL;DR: Overall, no strong evidence was found for stronger cue‐reactivity (= outcome difference between beer and water trial) in the DRD4 L and CNR1 C allele groups, and theDRD4 VNTR polymorphism tended to moderate salivary reactivity such that DRD 4 L participants showed a larger beverage effect than the DRd4 S participants.

TL;DR: It is tentatively proposed that an attentional bias for alcohol is related most strongly to liking and wanting in early adolescents, while in young adults, an Attentional bias may reflect wanting.