Predicting moments of impaired control over addictive behaviors: Relevance of craving and inhibitory control measured in laboratory and ambulatory settings

Craving emerged as an overall (between-person) risk factor, whereas behavior-specific inhibitory control as a situation-specific (within-person) mechanism in moments of impaired control in potentially addictive gaming or pornography use. Prevention, treatment, and future research should address within versus between-person processes and continue combining laboratory tasks with EMA to clarify how lab-indexed mechanisms translate into real-world impaired control.