Kim Fromme, Professor Research Interests: alcohol use and abuse, cognitive processes in risk-taking behavior, and the prevention of alcohol abuse as associated with negative consequences.  Heather Brister, Graduate Student Research Interests: 1) The relation between emotion dysregulation and problematic drinking; empirically testing emotion regulation skills training as a brief intervention for collegiate heavy drinking.  2) Intra-personal factors including drinking motives and personality traits associated with heavy drinking, alcohol-related consequences, and treatment-seeking among college students with problematic alcohol use.  3) Etiological and maintaining factors of emotional dysregulation among inpatient substance abusers with co-morbid diagnoses of PTSD; developing and testing new empirically supported treatments for drug and alcohol dependence. Patrick D. Quinn, Graduate Student Research Interests: The roles of individual differences (e.g., personality, alcohol responses) in the etiology of alcohol use, driving after drinking, and other risky behaviors. Lisa Sacerio, Graduate Student Research Interests: The influence of ethnicity, living arrangements, and social factors on alcohol use.
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