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Recent accounts therefore call for paradigms assessing contingency sensitivity with disorder-relevant reinforcers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0033291726106278_sec2\" sec-type=\"methods\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We adapted a free-operant contingency degradation task to compare goal-directed control when responding for a natural (juice) versus disorder-relevant reinforcer (alcohol). Eighty-one participants were tested, comprising 49 non-treatment-seeking individuals with AUD (31.22 \u00b1 8.35 years old; 28 female) and 32 healthy control individuals (27.44 \u00b1 6.71 years old; 22 female). We expected reduced goal-directed control in AUD, indexed by weaker response-rate and causality judgment adaptation to changed contingencies, particularly for alcohol.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0033291726106278_sec3\" sec-type=\"results\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Contrary to our hypothesis, goal-directed control was preserved in both groups, with behavioral responding and causality judgments remaining contingency-sensitive. Rather than a generalized deficit, a reinforcer-specific attenuation emerged: across groups, behavioral contingency sensitivity was selectively reduced when responding for alcohol. Explicit contingency judgments remained intact and were stronger in individuals with AUD than in healthy control individuals.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0033291726106278_sec4\" sec-type=\"conclusions\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These findings do not support a generalized deficit in goal-directed control in AUD. Instead, goal-directed control appears selectively attenuated in alcohol-related contexts across groups, potentially reflecting reinforcement-history-dependent reductions in contingency-sensitive responding. 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