AAT for Alcohol Use Disorder in Veterans

"AAT condition, participants use a joystick to respond to the color of the border surrounding the stimulus images presented (i.e., pull for green, push for blue). The stimuli used are alcohol-related images and neutral beverage images. To experimentally manipulate automatic action tendencies, a contingency is set between alcohol stimuli and avoidance behaviors"

In the Sham participants use a joystick to respond to the color of the border surrounding stimulus images presented. There is no contingency between instruction type and pictures (i.e., non-training version of the task)