Individualised but not general alcohol Stroop predicts alcohol use.

Background: Recently, there have been investigations that have targeted improving the relatively poor validity and reliability of attentional bias measures. These studies have demonstrated that individuals show elevated attentional bias to stimuli associated with their drinking history, although to date, the predictive utility of these measures has yet to be assessed. The current study aimed to investigate the predictive value of an individualised alcohol Stroop task compared to that of an alcohol Stroop task with general alcohol-related words in a sample of non-dependent undergraduate drinkers.