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.  Curriculum Vitae:  PDF Nicol J. Schriner, Project Coordinator nicol@mail.utexas.edu 471-3962 Amee B. Patel, Graduate Student Research Interests: personality and social factors that influence alcohol use, interventions to reduce college binge-drinking, and the transition from alcohol abuse to alcohol dependence. Curriculum Vitae:  PDF Reagan R. Wetherill, Graduate Student Research Interests: developmental trajectories and social factors that influence alcohol-use and risky sexual behavior. Curriculum Vitae:  PDF Cynthia A. Stappenbeck, Graduate Student Research Interests: the relation between partner violence and alcohol use in a college population. Curriculum Vitae: PDF Heather Brister, Graduate Student Research Interests: 1) The relation between multimodal indices of reinforcement and drinking motives (biological, cognitive, behavioral, and self-report drinking motives) and the developmental trajectories from “casual” to problematic drinking (e.g., abuse, dependence, and alcohol-related problems). 2) The etiological and maintenance implications of emotional dysregulation and PTSD in inpatient substance abusers with the goal of developing and testing new treatment strategies for drug and alcohol dependence. Curriculum Vitae: PDF Pat Quinn, Graduate Student Research Interests: The roles of self-regulation and negative affect in developmental trajectories of substance use and related risk behaviors among adolescents and young adults. Curriculum Vitae: PDF Nicole Fossos, Graduate Student Research Interests: Mechanisms involved in substance use (e.g., peer influence, coping), risky sexual behavior (e.g., perceived social norms), and intimate partner violence (e.g., normative influence, aggression expectancies, coping responses) among young adults. Additional interests include coping responses to traumatic experiences and mechanisms involved in the development of posttraumatic stress disorder. Curriculum Vitae: PDF
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