Abstract
This study aims to examine if intensity and clarity of negative emotion influence attentional bias to smoking-related cues in smoking relapsers. Smoking relapsers will be divided into two groups: emotionally overwhelmed (EO) group having intense but less clear emotion and emotionally non-overwhelmed (ENO) group having less intense but clearer emotion. Eye movements to smoking-related cues and control cues will be recorded after viewing films eliciting either negative or neutral emotion. The EO group would show significantly greater maintenance of attention to smoking-related cues than the ENO group, after viewing the film eliciting negative emotion, but not after viewing the film eliciting neutral emotion. If the expected findings are confirmed, it will suggest that negative emotion is likely to influence incentive values of smoking-related cues for smokers having intense but less clear emotion. Thus, EO smokers may be more vulnerable to smoking relapse when exposed to negative emotion, than ENO smokers.
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