RESEARCH
Most of my research revolves around two common themes: self-regulation and health-compromising behavior. My interests in self-regulation are broad, and include things like cognitive and affective self-regulation, but also regulation of self-perception and social image. My interests in health-compromising behavior involves identifying, measuring, and changing these behaviors using various forms of technology. When I’m on track, I try to integrate these interests into a comprehensive research program directed at reducing health compromising behaviors in real-time by modifying aspects of self-regulation using a technology based medium (e.g., smart phone apps, web integrated interventions, etc.). When I’m off track, I watch the Steelers.
Current Research Areas
1. Translating Basic Social Psychology Theories of Behavior into Health Interventions
For the last several years, I have been working to develop theory driven interventions that leverage technology in some way. My first attempt at this was to develop a web-based intervention to increase safe drinking strategies using a theory known as Deviance Regulation. This theory posits that people will strive to "stand-out" in positive and meaningful ways OR to avoid "standing-out" in negative ways. My lab has used this approach for a variety of behaviors. We are currently adapting a brief in-person intervention for this approach which is supplemented by smartphone-based, theory driven, interactions to increase behavior change (1R15AA026420-01A1). We also recently started testing ways to increase safe drinking using Counterfactual Thinking theory. This theory allows people to engage in a sort of "post-mortem" problem solving after experiencing an adverse event. The intervention encourages individuals to identify safe drinking strategies, think about how these strategies could ameliorate future problems, and develop implementation intentions to engage in these strategies.
2. Eating Pathology and Loss of Control Eating
For several years I have been working with a group of researchers in North Dakota to examine the role of cognitive and affective self-regulation mechanisms on the likelihood of loss of control eating. I am especially interested in integrating cognitive tasks into daily assessments using smartphones to examine how changes in things like attention bias, response inhibition, reward sensitivity, etc. interact with emotion to increase the likelihood of an adverse eating event, and the aftermath of that eating event on cognitive and affective functioning.
3. Alcohol and Marijuana Use Etiology and Interventions
I am currently conducting a series of studies that use basic theories of behavior change to modify college student drinking. Our most recent studies examine the ability of Deviance Regulation to modify alcohol protective behavioral strategies, and subsequently alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. We have also been extending research on expectancy challenge (EC), and have an RCT that will test a mobile EC to change alcohol expectancies in real time (1R15AA028909-01). I am also very interested in cannabis use, and the differences between medicinal and recreational use. I am one of the founders of the Research Society on Marijuana and the former Editor in Chief of the societies journal, Cannabis.
4. Response Inhibition, Cognitive Bias, & Evaluative Conditioning Retraining
These studies (collectively referred to as "Project Real-Apps") aim to modify engagement in unhealthy/risky behaviors. The goal is that, following completion of the training tasks (administered in real-time using mobile devices), individuals will develop diminished approach motivation and/or increased avoidance motivation for risky/unhealthy stimuli. In addition, we are examining the effects of this training on neural indices of cognitive and behavioral control. Ideally, these training tasks, which are administered using mobile device applications (hence the obvious play on words of "Real-Apps vs. Relapse"), will aid in modifying maladaptive patterns of behavior. This research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (1 R21 DA035761-01) and The American Lung Association (SB-300186).
5. Further Delineating the Dual-processes of Self-control
I am currently involved in several projects that seek to differentiate and explore aspects of the dual processes of self-control. I am particularly interested in understanding how personality based models of dual processes of self-control (e.g., trait models of effortful control and impulsivity) integrate with cognitive based models (e.g., executive control and implicit motivation).
6. Peer Victimization
I am a co-investigator on an NIH grant (PI: Wendy Troop-Gordon) to test an intervention seeking to reduce peer victimization by increasing defender behaviors among adolescents. This project, titled "The Friendship Hero Project", uses the same underlying social psychology theory (Deviance Regulation) that I have been utilizing to develop substance use interventions. You can check out the project here.
7. Risk of Suicide Among LGBTQ Adolescents
This is a new area of interest of mine. I have teamed up with researchers at UCF in the department of Global Public Health to work on a longitudinal project to examine how life transition points among LGBTQ youth are linked to suicidal thoughts/behaviors (1R01 MD015896-01).
Funding
Ongoing Support
FP00005163 (Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research)
07/01/2022 – 06/31/2023
Project Title: Event-Level Changes in Psychiatric and Physical Symptoms Following Medicinal Cannabis Use in Older Adults.
This project uses mobile technology to examine day-level changes in physical and psychiatric symptoms following medicinal cannabis use.
Role: Primary Investigator; Total Funding: $75,000
1R15AA026420-01A1 (National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) 09/05/2020 – 09/04/2023
Project Title: An Adaptive Mobile Intervention to Increase Safe Drinking Strategies Using Deviance Regulation Theory.
This project uses mobile technology to increase the use of safe drinking strategies.
Role: Primary-Investigator; Total Funding: $410,402
1 R01 MD015896-01 (National Institute of Minority Health & Health Disparities)
09/23/2020 – 09/22/2025
Project Title:Social connections preventing suicide ideation during developmental transitions among young sexual minority women.
This project examines how life transition points among LGBTQ female youth are linked to suicidal thoughts/behaviors.
Role: Co-Investigator (MPIs: Schrimshaw & Taliaferro); Total Funding: $2,479,820
1R15AA028909-01 (National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) 10/15/2021 – 10/14/2024
Project Title: Immediate and Long-term Efficacy of the Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum on Reducing Adverse Alcohol Outcomes.
This project tests expectancy challenge program using mobile technology, to reduce consumption rates and problems in college student drinkers.
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Dunn); Total Funding: $401,572
NIH LRP-CR (National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
08/01/21 – 08/31/23
Project Title: An Adaptive Mobile Intervention to Increase Safe Drinking Strategies
This is a National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Research funded through NIAAA. It covers the repayment of student loans while I conduct research on safe drinking strategies for a two-year period.
Role: Principal Investigator; Total Funding: $29,129
1R01MH132786 (National Institute of Mental Health)
(03/2023-12/2027)
Project Title: Dynamic Neural Computations Underlying Cognitive Control in Bulimia Nervosa.
This project uses EMA to examine mechanisms of cognitive control and the interaction of these mechanisms with momentary affect to predict indices of eating pathology in a clinical sample with Bulimia Nervosa.
Role: Consultant. (PI: Berner, L.)
John Templeton Foundation
08/16/2023 – 09/15/2025
Project Title: The Nature, Expressions, and Functions of Divine Forgiveness in Theistic Relational Spirituality
This project uses mobile technology to examine day-level associations between perceptions of divine forgiveness and well-being.
Role: Consultant (PI: Currier, J.)
R01 AA030065 (National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
05/01/2023 - 02/29/2028
Cyclical Deficits in Emotion Regulation as a risk factor for alcohol misuse in premenopausal females
This study investigates objective and subjective emotion regulation as a mediator of alcohol misuse across the menstrual cycle in premenopausal females.
Role: Consultant (PI: Pang)
Pending Support
R01 MH134051-01 (National Institute of Minority Health & Health Disparities)
Project Title: A Strengths-Based, Intersectional Approach to Suicide Prevention Among Black Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
Role: Co-Investigator (MPIs: Schrimshaw & Taliaferro); Direct costs: $2.5M
Completed Support
Funding Source: National Institute of Child Health & Development
1 R15 HD089044-01A1
07/01/2017 – 06/30/2020
Project Title: Using Deviance Regulation Theory to Combat Bullying.
This school-based intervention uses a DRT intervention to increase defender behaviors among middle school students.
Role: Co-Investigator; (PI: Troop-Gordon); Total Funding: $435,000.00
Funding source: National Institute of Drug Abuse
1 R21 DA035761-01
05/15/2014 – 05/14/2016
Project Title: Response Inhibition Training in Smoking Cessation
This Ecological Momentary Intervention examines the effects of response inhibition retraining (using smartphones) on the likelihood of relapse following a quit attempt.
Role: Primary Investigator; Total Funding: $395,150.00
Funding Source: National Institute of Drug Abuse
NIH LRP-CR
09/01/12 – 08/31/14
Project Title: Response Inhibition to Smoking Stimuli
This is a National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Research funded through NIDA. It covers the repayment of student loans while I conduct research on response inhibition to smoking stimuli for a two year period.
Role: Principal Investigator; Total Funding: $106,500.00
Funding source: American Lung Association
SB-300186
08/15/2014 – 06/30/2016
Project Title: Smoking Specific Response Inhibition Training Using Mobile Technology
This Ecological Momentary Intervention examines the effects of response inhibition retraining (using smartphones) on changes in several indices of neuropsychological functioning relevant to tobacco craving and smoking cessation.
Role: Primary Investigator; Total Funding: $80,000.00
Research Excellence Award
10/14/11 – 05/30/12
Project Title: Response Inhibition and Smoking Behavior
This feasibility project examined a response inhibition training regimen, administered using palm pilots, on smoking and smoking related behavioral outcomes. Results are being used to support an R21 application.
Role: Principal Investigator (Mentor: Chad Gwaltney, PhD); Total Funding: $3,750.00
1 F31 AA018242-02
08/03/09 – 08/02/11
Project Title: The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Stress Induced Drinking
This 21 day EMA study examined within-person associations between mood and alcohol use and between-person effects that sustained attention and attention shifting have on within-person mood-alcohol associations
Role: Primary Investigator (Mentor: Jeffrey S. Simons, PhD); Total Funding: $61,004.00
Publications
(Note. Italicized names are student coauthors)
De Leon, A. N., Dvorak, R. D., Perrotte, J. K., Klaver, S. J., Peterson, R., Magri, T. D., Burr, E. K., Leary, A. V., & Aguilar, B. (2024). The Role of Sociocultural Factors on Alcohol Self-Efficacy and Protective Drinking Behaviors Among Hispanic/Latinx Young Adults. Ethnicity & Health.
Peterson, R., Dvorak, R. D., Burr, E. K., DeLeon, A. N., Klaver, S. J., Maynard, M. H., Hayden, E. R., & Aguilar, B. (2024). Revised Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies Scale–20 (PBSS-20) Sub-Types: An Analysis of Direct/Controlled Consumption and Indirect/Harm Reduction PBS. Journal of Drug Education: Substance Use Research and Prevention.
Peterson, R., Dvorak, R. D, De Leon, A. N., Klaver, S. Burr, E. K., Maynard, M. &. Hayden, E. (2024). Examination of the Sexual and Negative Dating Inventory (SANDI) among sexual and gender minorities: An analysis of psychometrics and outcomes. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes.
Strahm, A.M., Hilmert, C.J., Campos, B., Dvorak, R. D., & Schenker, M. (2024). Maternal blood pressure and birth weight associations in U.S.-born and foreign-born Latinas. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Forester, G., Schaefer, L. M., Johnson, J. S., Amponsah, T., Dvorak, R. D., & Wonderlich, S. A. (2024). Neurocognitive Reward Processes Measured via Event-Related Potentials are Associated with Binge-Eating Disorder Diagnosis and Ecologically-Assessed Behavior. Appetite, 193.
Crisafulli, M. J., Flori, J. N., Dunn, M. E., & Dvorak, R. D. (2023). College Student Alcohol Use: Understanding the Role of Alcohol Expectancies, Social Anxiety, Social Connectedness, and Need to Belong. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes.
Baker, S. N., Burr, E. K., DeLeon, A. N., Leary, A. V., Rozek, D. C., & Dvorak, R. D. (2023). Mediating Roles of Affect Lability and Experiential Avoidance Between Distress Tolerance and Suicidal Ideation Among College Students. Psychological Reports.
Walsh, B.E., Dvorak, R.D., Ebbinghaus, A., Gius, B. K., Levine, J. A., Cortina, W. & Schlauch, R. C. (2023). Disaggregating Within- and Between-Person Effects of Affect on Drinking Behavior in a Clinical Sample. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
Flori, J. N., Schreiner, A. M., Dunn, M. E., Crisafulli, M. J., Lynch, G. T., Dvorak, R. D., & Davis, C. J. (2023). Delivery of a Prevention Program in Large College Classes: Effectiveness of the Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum. Substance Use & Misuse.
Klaver. S.J., Dvorak, R.D., De Leon, A.N., Burr, E.K., Leary, A.V., Hayden, E.R., Peterson, R., Allen, Q., & Gwaltney, C.J. (2023). Support for Incentive-Sensitization Theory in Adolescent Ad Libitum Smokers Using Ecological Momentary Assessment. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Burr, E. K. , Dvorak, R. D., Kramer, M. P., & Ochoa, A. (2023). Emotion Regulation Difficulties are Associated with Loss-of-Control Eating Dependent on Degree of Narcissistic Traits in College Students. Eating Behaviors.
Schaefer, L., Forester, G., Dvorak, R. D., Steinglass, J., & Wonderlich, S. A. (2023). Integrating Aspects of Affect, Reward, and Cognition to Develop More Comprehensive Models of Binge-Eating Pathology. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Maynard, M., Paulson, D., Dunn, M., and Dvorak, R. D. (2023). Relationship Between Cannabis Use and Immediate, Delayed, and Working Memory Performance Among Older Adults. Cannabis.
Schaefer, L., Forester, G., Burr, E. K., Laam, L., Crosby, R. D., Peterson, C. B., Cros, S. J., Engel, S. G., Dvorak, R. D., Wonderlich, S. A. (2023). Examining the Role of Craving in Affect Regulation Models of Binge Eating: Evidence from an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
Leary, A.V., Dvorak, R. D., Burr, E. K., Peterson, R., De Leon, A. N., Klaver, S., Maynard, M. H., & Harm Reduction Research Group. (2023). Development and Validation of the Personal Assessment of Responsible Drinking Identity (PARDI). Psychological Assessment.
Maynard, M., Burr, E. K., Allen, Q., Dvorak, R. D., Paulson, D. (2023). Loss of Control Eating Mediates the Relationship Between Cannabis-Related Problems and Eating Pathology. Psychological Reports.
Dora, J., Piccirillo, M., Foster, K.T., Arbeau, K., Armeli, S., Auriacombe, M., Bartholow, B., Beltz, A.M., Blumenstock, S.M., Bold, K., Bonar, E.E., Braitman, A., Carpenter, R.W., Creswell, K.G., DeHart, T., Dvorak, R.D., Emery, N., Enkema, M., Fairbairn, C., Fairlie, A.M., Ferguson, S.G., Freire, T., Goodman, F., Gottfredson, N., Halvorson, M., Haroon, M., Howard, A.L., Hussong, A., Jackson, K.M., Jenzer, T., Kelly, D.P., Kuczynski, A.M., Kuerbis, A., Lee, C.M., Lewis, M., Linden-Carmichael, A.N., Littlefield, A., Lydon-Staley, D.M., Merrill, J.E., Miranda Jr., R., Mohr, C., Read, J.P., Richardson, C., O’Connor, R., O’Malley, S.S., Papp, L., Piasecki, T.M., Sacco, P., Scaglione, N., Serre, F., Shadur, J., Sher, K.J., Shoda, Y., Simpson, T.L., Smith, M.R., Stevens, A., Stevenson, B., Tennen, H., Todd, M., Treloar Padovano, H., Trull, T., Waddell, J., Walukevich-Dienst, K., Witkiewitz, K., Wray, T., Wright, A.G.C., Wycoff, A.M., & King, K.M. (2023). The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data. Psychological Bulletin. *This is a team science paper that was a collaboration with 69 different authors and over 300,000 days of data. It is the most definitive study on mood-alcohol use associations and alcohol use motivation at the daily level.
De Leon, A. N., Woerner, J., Dvorak, R. D., Cox, J., Magri, T. D., Hayden, E., Ahuja, M., Haeny, A. (2023) An examination of discrimination on stress, depression, and oppression-based trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial awakening of 2020. Chronic Stress.
Burr, E. K., Dvorak, R. D., De Leon, A. N., Leary, A. V., Peterson, R., Schaefer, L. M., & Wonderlich, S. A. (2022). The role of eating expectancies and eating motives in the association between mood and loss-of-control eating: A national sample daily diary study. Appetite.
De Leon, A. N., Peterson, R., Dvorak, R. D., Leary, A. V., Kramer, M. P., Burr, E. K., Toth, E. M., & Pinto, D. (2022). The Health Belief Model in the Context of Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes.
Magri, T. D., Meshesha, L.Z., Dvorak, R.D. & Abrantes, A.M. (2022). Impact of COVID-19’s Economic Burden on Alcohol-Related Problems: An Indirect Effect of Depression, Stress, and Anxiety. Translational Issues in Psychological Science.
Moskal, K. R., Dvorak, R. D., Burr, E. K., El Helou, G., Cora, J. C., De Leon, A. N., Leary, A. V. (2022). Attention Bias and Alcohol Craving: Differential Effects via Biological Sex and Mood. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Burr, E. K., Dvorak, R. D., Peterson, R., & De Leon, A. N. (2022). Greater negative affect reduction expectancies moderate the interactive relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and distress tolerance in predicting loss-of-control eating. British Journal of Health Psychology.
Salgari, G. C., Kramer, M. P, Spencer, C. C., Dvorak, R. D., Bohil, C. J., O’Donnell, J. P. & Bedwell, J. S. (2022). Psychometric Psychopathy: Relationships with Indices of Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Factors. Personality and Individual Differences.
Dunn, M. E., Schreiner, A. M., Flori, J. N., Crisafulli, M. J., Willis, E. A., Lynch, G. T., Leary, A. V., & Dvorak, R. D. (2022). Effective Prevention Programming for Reducing Alcohol-Related Harms Experienced by First Year College Students: Evaluation of the Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum (ECALC). Addictive Behaviors.
De Leon, A. N., Peterson, R., Leary, A. N., Burr, E. K., Cora, J. L., & Dvorak, R. D. (2022). Protective Behavioral Strategies as a Protective Factor Against Suicidal Ideation Among College Student Drinkers. Journal of American College Health.
Hurlocker, M. C., Madson, M. B., Lui, P., Dvorak, R. D., Ham, L. S., Leffingwell, T., Looby, A., Meier, E., Montes, K., Napper, L. E., Prince, M. A., Skewes, M., Zamboanga, B. L., & Harm Reduction Research Team. (2022). Mental health risk profiles and related substance use during the coronavirus pandemic among college students who use substances. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.
Smallman, R., Arthur, K., Dvorak, R. D. & Fields, S. A. (2022). From If-Then to Here and Now: Using Personalized Counterfactuals from Past Negative Experiences to Reduce Future Alcohol Consequences. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Kramer, M. P., Peterson, R., Willis, E. A., Leary, A. V., Magri, T., Cora, J. L., & Dvorak, R. D. (2022). Psychopathy and Protective Behavioral Strategies: PBS mediates the relationships between Primary and Secondary Psychopathy and Alcohol Consumption and Problems. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes.
Mason, T. B., Smith, K. E., Crosby, R. D., Dvorak, R. D., Engel, S. G., Crow, S., Wonderlich, S. A., & Peterson, C. B. (in press). Self-discrepancy as a predictor of eating disorder symptoms: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies of adults with binge eating. Cognitive Therapy & Research.
Burr, E. K., Dvorak, R.D., Stevenson, B. L., Schaefer, L. M., & Wonderlich, S. A. (in press). Ability to tolerate distress moderates the indirect relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and loss-of-control eating via affective lability. Eating Behaviors.
Leary, A. V., Dvorak, R. D., Troop-Gordon, W., Blanton, H., Peterson, R., Kramer, M. P., De Leon, A. N., & Magri, T. (in press). Test of a Deviance Regulation Theory Intervention Among First-Year College Student Drinkers: Differential Effects via Frequency and Quantity Norms. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Mason, T. B., Smith, K. E., Crosby, R. D., Dvorak, R. D., Engel, S. G., & Wonderlich, S. A. (2022). An ecological momentary assessment examination of the transdiagnostic model of food and alcohol disturbance. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.
Kramer, M. P., Peterson, R., Leary, A. V., Wilborn, D. D., Magri, T., & Dvorak, R. D. (2021). Psychopathy and occurrence of gambling problems: The role of gambling protective strategies and urgency. Psychological Reports.
De Leon, A. N., Dvorak, R. D., Smallman, R., Arthur, K., & Piercey, C. (2021) Using a Counterfactual Thinking Theory Intervention to Change Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies Use Intentions. British Journal of Health Psychology.
Peterson, R., Kramer, M. P., Pinto, D., De Leon, A. N., Leary, A. V., Marin, A. A., Cora, J. L. & Dvorak, R. D. (2021). A comprehensive review of measures of protective behavioral strategies (PBS) across various risk factors and associated PBS-related interventions. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Howard, L. M., Mason, T. B., Crosby, R. D., Dvorak, R. D., Wonderlich, S. A., & Smith, K. E. (2021). Using the acquired preparedness model of risk to explore the role of eating expectancies and impulsivity in binge eating. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention.
Smith, K. E., Mason, T. B, Reilly, E. R., Hazzard, V. M., Borg, S. L., Dvorak, R. D., Crosby, R. D., & Wonderlich, S. A. (2021). Examining prospective mediational relationships between momentary rumination, negative affect, and binge eating using ecological momentary assessment. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports.
Peterson, R., Dvorak, R. D., Woerner, J. & Lewis, M. A. (2021). Internalizing symptoms, alcohol use, and protective behavioral strategies are associated with regretted sexual experiences of college students. Journal of Affective Disorders.
Schaefer, L. M., Smith, K. E., Dvorak, R. D, Crosby, R. D., & Wonderlich, S. A. (2021). Eating expectancies and reinforcement learning: A state-based test of affect regulation and expectancy models in the natural environment. Eating and Weight Disorders Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Obesity.
Ross, E. J., Vivier, H., Cassisi, J. E., and Dvorak, R. D. (2020). Gastrointestinal health: An investigation of mediating effects on mood and quality of life. Health Psychology Open.
Cook, M., Newins, A. R., & Dvorak, R. D. (2020). Coping Motivated Alcohol Use: The Role of Social Anxiety and Dissociation. Substance Use& Misuse.
De Leon, A. N., Dvorak, R. D., Kramer, M. P., Peterson, R., Pinto, D., Leary, A. V., Magri, T. D. ( 2020). Daily Patterns of Emotional Functioning on Drinking and Non-drinking Days. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Berg, S., Bedwell, J., Dvorak, R. D., Tone, E. (2020). Higher social anxiety severity predicts better cognitive empathy performance in women but not men. Psychological Reports.
Keck, M. M., Vivier, H., Cassissi, J. E., Dvorak, R. D., Dunn, M., Neer, S. (2020). Examining the role of anxiety and depression in dietary choices among college students. Nutrients.
Brush, D. M., Paulson, D., Herrera, M. J., James, N. T., Scheurich, J. A., Stevenson, B. L., & Dvorak, R. D. ( 2020). Sleep Disturbance and Depressive Symptoms in Later-Life: Cross-Sectional Examination of Cognitive Mechanisms. Neurology, Psychiatry, & Brain Research.
Dvorak, R. D., Leary, A. V., Peterson, R., Kramer, M. P., Pinto, D., & Dunn, M. E. (2020). Prevention of alcohol-related harms among college students: Past issues and future directions. pgs. 61-94. In B. Fiedler (Ed.), Three Facets of Public Health and Paths to Improvements. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Academic Press.
Aune, T., Juul, E. M. L., Beidel, D.C., Nordahl, H. M., & Dvorak, R. D. (2020). Mitigating adolescent social anxiety symptoms: The effects of social support and social self-efficacy in findings from the Young-HUNT 3 Study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1007/s00787-020-01529-0
Smith, K. E., Mason, T. B., Juarascio, A., Weinbach, N., Dvorak, R. D., Crosby, R. D., & Wonderlich, S. A. (2020). The momentary interplay of affect, attention bias, and expectancies as predictors of binge eating in the natural environment. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 53(4), 586-594.
Smith, K. E., Schaumberg, K., Reilly, E. E., Anderson, L. M., Schaefer, L. M., Dvorak, R. D., Crosby, R. D., & Wonderlich, S. A. (2020). Examining the ecological validity of trait-level rumination measures among women with binge eating symptoms. Eating and Weight Disorders. DOI: 10.1007/s40519-019-00838-x
Cook, M., Newins, A. R., Dvorak, R. D., & Stevenson, B. L. (2020). What About This Time? Within- and Between-Person Associations Between Drinking Motives and Alcohol Outcomes. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. DOI: 10.1037/pha0000332
Magri, T. D., Leary, A. V., De Leon, A. N., Flori, J. N., Crisafulli, M. J., Dunn, M. E., & Dvorak, R. D. (2020). Organization and Activation of Alcohol Expectancies Across Empirically Derived Profiles of College Student Drinkers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. DOI: 10.1037/pha0000346
Smith, K. E., Mason, T. B., Schaefer, L. M., Juarascio, A., Dvorak, R. D., Weinbach, N., Crosby, R. D., Wonderlich, S. A. (2020). Examining intra-individual variability in food-related inhibitory control and negative affect as predictors of binge eating using ecological momentary assessment. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 120, 137-143.
O’Donnell, R., Richardson, B., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Liknaitzky, M., Arulkadacham, L., Dvorak, R. D., Staiger, P. K. (2020). Ecological Momentary Assessment of Drinking in Young Adults: An Investigation into Social Context, Affect, and Motives. Addictive Behaviors. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.06.008
Peterson, R. S., Dvorak, R. D., Stevenson, B. L., Kramer, M. P., Pinto, D. A., Mora, E. T., & Leary, A. V. (2020). Protective Behavioral Strategies and Alcohol-Related Regretted Sex among College Students. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 28(1), 6-12.
Dunn, M. E., Fried-Somerstein, A., Flori, J. N., Hall, T. V., & Dvorak, R. D. (2020). Reducing Alcohol Use in Mandated College Students: A Comparison of a Brief Motivational Intervention (BMI) and the Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum (ECALC). Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 28(1), 87-98.
Stevenson, B. L., Wilborn, D. D., Kramer, M. P., & Dvorak, R. D. (2020). Real time changes in emotion regulation and loss of control eating. Journal of Health Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/1359105318823242
Stevenson, B. L., Dvorak, R. D., Kramer, M. P., Peterson, R. P., Dunn, M. E., Leary, A. V., & Pinto, D. (2019). Within- and Between-Person Associations from Mood to Alcohol Consequences: The Mediating Role of Enhancement and Coping Drinking Motives. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 28(8):813-822.
Troop-Gordon, W., Frosch, C. A., Totura, C. M. W., Bailey, A. N., Jackson, J. D., & Dvorak, R. D. (2019). Predicting the development of pro-bullying bystander behavior: A short-term longitudinal analysis. Journal of School Psychology, 77, 77-89.
Kramer, M. P., Wilborn, D. D., Spencer, C., Stevenson, B. L., & Dvorak, R. D. (2019). Protective Behavioral Strategies Moderate the Association between Narcissistic Traits and Alcohol Use and Consequences in College Student Drinkers. Substance Use & Misuse, 54(5), 863-867.
Dvorak, R. D., Troop-Gordon, W., Stevenson, B. L., Kramer, M. P., Wilborn, D. D., Leary, A. V. (2018). A randomized control trial of a deviance regulation theory intervention to increase alcohol protective strategies. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 86(12), 1061-1075.
Dvorak, R. D., Waters, A. J., MacIntyre, J. M., & Gwaltney, C. (2018). Affect, Craving, and Cognition: An EMA Study of ad libitum Adolescent Smoking. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32(6) 583-594.
Wilborn, D., Kramer, M. P., Stevenson, B. L., & Dvorak, R. D. (2018). Should I Stay or Should I Go? Approach/Avoidance Conflict and Emotional Functioning. Personality and Mental Health, 12(4), 298-308.
Dvorak, R. D., Stevenson, B. L., Kilwein, T. M., Sargent, E. M., Dunn, M. E., Leary, A. V., & Kramer, M. P. (2018). Tension Reduction and Affect Regulation: An Examination of Mood Indices on Drinking and Non-Drinking Days among University Student Drinkers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26(4), 377-390.
Sargent, E. M., Kilwein, T. M., Dvorak, R. D., Loobie, A., Stevenson, B. L. & Kramer, M. P. (2018). Deviance Regulation Theory and Drinking Outcomes among Greek-Life Students during Spring Break. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26(4), 366-376.
Dvorak, R. D., Kramer, M. P., & Stevenson, B. L. (2018). An initial examination of the effects of Deviance Regulation Theory on Normative Perceptions. Journal of Substance Use, 23, 567-573. [pdf]
Stevenson, B. L., Dvorak, R. D., Wonderlich, S. A., Crosby, R. D., & Gordon, K. H. (2018). Emotions before and after loss of control eating. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 26(6), 505-522.
Dvorak, R. D., Raeder, C., Kramer, M. P., Sargent, E. M., Stevenson, B. L., & Helmy, M. (2018). Using Deviance Regulation Theory to Target Marijuana Use Intentions Among College Students. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26, 29-35.
Stevenson, B. L., Kwan, M. Y., Dvorak, R. D., & Gordon, K. H. (2017). Empirically Derived Classes of Eating Pathology in Male and Female College Students. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention, 16, 1-12.
Elhai, J. D., Hall, B. J., Levine, J. C., & Dvorak, R. D. (2017). Types of smartphone usage and relations with problematic smartphone behaviors: The role of content consumption vs. social smartphone use. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 11(2), article 3.
Pedersen, E. R., Huang, W., Dvorak, R. D., Prince, M., Hummer, J. F., & Marijuana Outcomes Study Team. (2017). The Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Scale: Further examination using Item Response Theory. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 31, 548-559.
Dvorak, R. D., Kramer, M. P., Stevenson, B. L., Sargent, E. M., & Kilwein, T. M. (2017). An Application of Deviance Regulation Theory to Reduce Alcohol-related Problems Among College Women During Spring Break. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Kramer, M. P., Dvorak, R. D., & Stevenson, B. L. (2017). Primary Psychopathy and Alcohol Pathology in College Students: The Role of Protective Behavioral Strategies. The American Journal of Drug & Alcohol Abuse.
Pearson, M. R., Liese, B. S. & Dvorak, R. D. (2017). College Student Marijuana Involvement: Perceptions, Use, and Consequences across 11 College Campuses. Addictive Behaviors, 66, 83-89.
Elhai, J. D., Levine, J. C., Dvorak, R. D., & Hall, B. J. (2017). Nonsocial Features of Smartphone Use are Most Related to Depression, Anxiety, and Problematic Smartphone Use. Computers in Human Behavior, 69, 75-82.
Elhai, J. D., Dvorak, R. D., Levine, J. C., & Hall, B. J. (2017). Smartphone addiction and overuse, and relations with psychopathology: A conceptual overview, and systematic review of the literature. Journal of Affective Disorders, 207, 251-259.
Lamis, D. A., Ballard, E. D., May, A. M. & Dvorak, R. D. (2016). Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation in College Students: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Hopelessness, Alcohol Problems, and Social Support. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 72(9), 919-932.
Elhai, J. D., Levine, J. C., Dvorak, R. D., & Hall, B. J. (2016). Fear of missing out, need for touch, anxiety and depression are related to problematic smartphone use. Computers in Human Behavior, 63, 509-516.
Dvorak, R. D., Pearson, M. R., Neighbors, C., Martens, M. M., Stevenson, B. L., Kuvaas, N. J. (2016). A Road Paved with Safe Intentions: Increasing Intentions to use Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies via Deviance Regulation Theory. Health Psychology, 35(6), 304-313.
Dvorak, R. D., Pearson, M. R., Sargent, E. M., Stevenson, B. L., & Mfon, A. (2016). Daily Associations between Emotional Functioning and Alcohol Involvement: Moderating Effects of Response Inhibition and Gender. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 163, S46-53.
Dvorak, R. D., Kuvaas, N. J., Kilwein, T. M., Wray, T. B., Stevenson, B. L., & Sargent, E. M. (2016). Are drinking motives associated with sexual “hookups” among college student drinkers? Journal of American College Health, 64(2), 133-138.
Dvorak, R. D., Kuvaas, N. J., Lamis, D. A., Pearson, M. R., & Stevenson, B. L. (2015). Emotionally up and down, behaviorally to and fro: Drinking motives mediate the synergistic effects of urgency and emotional instability on alcohol outcomes. Journal of Drug Education: Substance Abuse Research & Prevention, 45(3-4), 156-184.
Charak, R., Koot, H. M., Dvorak, R. D., Elklit, A., & Elhai, J. D. (2015). Unique Versus Cumulative Effects of Physical and Sexual Assault on Patterns of Adolescent Substance use. Psychiatry Research, 230(3), 763-769.
Dvorak, R. D., Pearson, M. R., Neighbors, C., & Martens, M. M. (2015). Fitting In and Standing Out: Increasing the Use of Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies with a Deviance Regulation Intervention. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82(3), 482-493.
Stevenson, B. L., Dvorak, R. D., Kuvaas, N. J., Williams, T. J., & Spaeth, D. (2015). Cognitive Control Moderates the Association between Emotional Instability and Dependence Symptoms. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 29(2), 323-328.
Tarantino, N., Lamis, D. A., Ballard, E. D., Masuda, A., & Dvorak, R. D. (2015). Parent-child conflict and illicit drug use in college women: A moderated mediation model of self-control and mindfulness. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 62(2), 303-313.
Arens, A. M., Gaher, R. M., Simons, J. S., & Dvorak, R. D. (2014). Child Maltreatment and Deliberate Self-Harm: A Negative Binomial Hurdle Model for Explanatory Constructs. Child Maltreatment, 19, 168-177.
Dvorak, R. D. & Simons, J. S. (2014). Daily Associations Between Anxiety and Alcohol Use: Variation by Sustained Attention, Set Shifting, and Gender. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 28, 969-979.
Dvorak, R. D., Pearson, M. R., Day, A. M. (2014). Ecological Momentary Assessment of Acute Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms: Associations with Mood, Motives, and Use on Planned Drinking Days. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 22(4), 285-297.
Dvorak, R. D., Sargent, E. M., Kilwein, T. M., Stevenson, B. L., Kuvaas, N. J., & Williams, T. J. (2014). Alcohol Use and Alcohol-related Consequences: Associations with Emotion Regulation Difficulties. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 40(5), 125-130.
Dvorak, R. D. & Day, A. M. (2014). Marijuana and Self-regulation: Examining Likelihood and Intensity of Use and Problems. Addictive Behaviors, 39(3), 709-712.
Kuvaas, N. J., Dvorak, R. D., Pearson, M. R., Lamis, D. A., & Sargent, E. M. (2013). Self-regulation and Alcohol Use Involvement: A Latent Class Analysis. Addictive Behaviors, 39(1), 146-152.
Dvorak, R. D., Arens, A. M., Kuvaas, N. J. Williams, T. J., & Kilwein, T. M. (2013). Problematic Alcohol Use, Trauma History, and PTSD Symptom Level: A Path Analysis. Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 9(4), 281-291.
Dvorak, R. D., Wray, T. B., Kuvaas, N. J., & Kilwein, T. M. (2013) Mania and sexual risk: Associations with behavioral self-regulation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 150(3), 1076-1081.
Lamis, D. A. & Dvorak, R. D. (2013). Mindfulness, Nonattachment, and Suicide Rumination in College Students: The Mediating Role of Depressive Symptoms. Mindfulness.
Dvorak, R. D., Lamis, D. A., & Malone, P. S. (2013). Alcohol Use, Depressive Symptoms, and Impulsivity as Risk Factors for Suicide Proneness among College Students. Journal of Affective Disorders, 149, 326-334.
Dvorak, R. D., Pearson, M. R., & Kuvaas, N. J. (2013). The Five-factor Model of Impulsivity like Traits and Emotional Lability in Aggressive Behavior. Aggressive Behavior, 39, 222-228.
Dvorak, R. D., Schweinle, W., Geoghegan, P. & Irvine, A. (2013). A multilevel examination of individual differences in rowing pace: Associations with gender, weight class and age. Journal of Athletic Medicine, 1(1); 1-14.
Wray, T. B., Dvorak, R. D., Hsai, J. F., Arens, A. M., & Schweinle, W. E. (2013). The Role of Optimism and Pessimism as Predictors of Alcohol Use Trajectories in Adolescence. 22(1), 58-68. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse.
Wray, T. B., Dvorak, R. D., & Martin, S. L. (2013). Demographic and Economic Predictors of Mental Health Problems and Engagement with Treatment Resources in a Low-Income Primary Care Setting. Psychology, Health, & Medicine, 18(2) 213-222.
Wray, T. B., Simons, J. S. Dvorak, R. D., & Gaher, R. (2012). Trait-Based Affective Processes in Alcohol-Involved Risk Behaviors. 37(11), 1230-1239. Addictive Behaviors.
Garcia, D., Skillman, G. D., & Dvorak, R. D. (2012). A Comparison of Spirituality, Healthy Lifestyle, and Environmental Consciousness Based on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, 26, 8-12.
Simons, J. S., Dvorak, R. D., Merrill, J. E., & Reed, J. P. (2012). Dimensions and Severity of Marijuana Consequences: Development and Validation of the Marijuana Consequences Questionnaire (MACQ). Addictive Behaviors, 37(5), 613-621.
Dvorak, R. D., Simons, J. S., & Wray, T. B. (2011). Alcohol Use and Problem Severity: Associations with Dual Systems of Self-control. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 72(4), 678-684.
Wray, T. B., Simons, J. S., & Dvorak, R. D. (2011). Sensitivity to Punishment and Reward and Alcohol-Related Infractions among College Students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25(2), 352-357.
Dvorak, R. D., Simons, J. S., & Wray, T. B. (2011). Poor Control Strengthens the Association between Sensation Seeking and Disgust Reactions. Journal of Individual Differences, 32(4), 219-224.
Dvorak, R. D., Simons, J. S., & Wray, T. (2011). Impulsivity moderates the association between depressive rumination and failed quit attempts by smokers. Addiction: Research & Theory, 19(3), 283-288.
Simons, J. S., Dvorak, R. D., Batien, B. D., & Wray, T. (2010). Event-level associations between affect, alcohol intoxication, and acute dependence symptoms: Effects of urgency, self-control, and drinking experience. Addictive Behaviors, 35(12), 1045-1053.
Wang, X. T. & Dvorak, R. D. (2010). Sweet future: Fluctuating blood glucose levels affect future discounting. Psychological Science, 21(2), 183-188.
Dvorak, R. D., Del Gaizo, A. L., Engdahl, R. M., & Eliason, C. (2009). Tobacco use and body mass index: Mediated effects through physical inactivity. Journal of Health Psychology, 14(7), 919-923.
Simons, J. S., Dvorak, R. D., & Lau-Barraco, C. (2009). Behavioral inhibition and activation systems: Differences in substance use expectancy organization and activation in memory. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23, 315-328.
Dvorak, R. D. & Simons, J. S. (2009). Moderation of resource depletion in the self-control strength model: Differing effects of two modes of self-control. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 572-583.
Simons, J. S., Dvorak, R. D., & Batien, B. D. (2008). Methamphetamine use in a rural college population: Associations with marijuana use, sensitivity to punishment, and sensitivity to reward. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 444-449.
Dvorak, R. D. & Simons, J. S. (2008). Affective differences among daily tobacco users, occasional users, and non-users. Addictive Behaviors, 33, 211-216.
Dvorak, R. D. (2006). The price of social perception: Effects of positive and negative feedback in public and private spheres. SDSU Journal of Undergraduate Research, 4, 37-46.