Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
J Psychopharmacol. 2011 Apr;25(4):514-9. doi: 10.1177/0269881110388325. Epub 2010 Nov 23.
Research has shown that smokers have an attentional bias for pictorial smoking cues. The objective of the present study was to examine whether smokers also have an attentional bias for dynamic smoking cues in contemporary movies and therefore fixate more quickly, more often and for longer periods of time on dynamic smoking cues than non-smokers. By drawing upon established methods for assessing attentional biases for pictorial cues, we aimed to develop a new method for assessing attentional biases for dynamic smoking cues. We examined smokers' and non-smokers' eye movements while watching a movie clip by using eye-tracking technology. The sample consisted of 16 smoking and 17 non-smoking university students. Our results confirm the results of traditional pictorial attentional bias research. Smokers initially directed their gaze more quickly towards smoking-related cues (p = 0.01), focusing on them more often (p = 0.05) and for a longer duration (p = 0.01) compared with non-smokers. Thus, smoking cues in movies directly affect the attention of smokers. These findings indicate that the effects of dynamic smoking cues, in addition to other environmental smoking cues, need to be taken into account in smoking cessation therapies in order to increase successful smoking cessation and to prevent relapses.
研究表明，吸烟者对图片吸烟线索存在注意力偏向。本研究的目的是检验吸烟者是否对当代电影中的动态吸烟线索也存在注意力偏向，从而比不吸烟者更快、更频繁、更长时间地关注动态吸烟线索。本研究通过借鉴评估图片线索注意力偏向的既定方法，旨在开发一种评估动态吸烟线索注意力偏向的新方法。我们使用眼动追踪技术来观察电影片段时，对吸烟者和不吸烟者的眼球运动进行了研究。样本包括 16 名吸烟者和 17 名不吸烟者的大学生。我们的研究结果证实了传统图片注意力偏向研究的结果。与不吸烟者相比，吸烟者最初更快地将目光投向与吸烟相关的线索（p=0.01），更频繁地（p=0.05）且更长时间地（p=0.01）关注这些线索。因此，电影中的吸烟线索直接影响吸烟者的注意力。这些发现表明，在戒烟治疗中，除了其他环境吸烟线索外，还需要考虑动态吸烟线索的影响，以提高戒烟成功率并预防复吸。
