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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages 926-932Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02178.x
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA159463] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDA NIH HHS [R01 DA10605, R01 DA010605-09, R01 DA010605] Funding Source: Medline
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Many decisions related to cigarette smoking require people in an affectively neutral, or cold, state to predict how they will feel or behave when in a craving, or hot, state. Research in other domains has revealed that individuals in cold states often underestimate the impact of being in a hot state on their own future behavior. In a study testing whether this is true of cigarette craving, 98 smokers were assigned to one of three conditions: hot (during a high-craving first session, they made predictions about a high-craving state in a second session), cold (during a low-craving first session, they made predictions about a high-craving state in a second session), and comparison (they experienced a high-craving session only). As predicted, in contrast to smokers in the hot group, smokers in the cold group underpredicted the value they would place on smoking during the second session. Results support the existence of a cold-to-hot empathy gap in smokers and help to explain diverse aspects of tobacco addiction.
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