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Motivation, Working Memory, and Decision Making: A Cognitive-Motivational Theory of Personality
Vulnerability to Alcoholism
Peter R. Finn
Behav Cogn Neurosci Rev 2002; 1; 183
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Finn / PERSONALITY VULNERABILITY TO ALCOHOLISM
Motivation, Working Memory, and Decision Making:
A Cognitive-Motivational Theory of Personality
Vulnerability to Alcoholism
Peter R. Finn
Indiana University
This article presents a cognitive-motivational theory (CMT) of evident in four broad categories of processes and
the mechanisms associated with three basic dimensions ofper - sources of vulnerability: (a) preexisting personality and
sonality vulnerability to alcoholism, impulsivity/novelty seek- behavioral traits, (b) attempts to self-regulate mood, (c)
ing, harm avoidance, and excitement seeking. CMT describes individual differences in response to alcohol, and (d)
the interrelationships between activity in basic motivational sys- the effects of alcohol on homeostatic regulatory systems.
tems and attentional, decision-making, and working memory For instance, alcohol abuse is typically seen as one of
processes as the mechanisms associated w