Clinical Faculty

Research Interest

Alcohol use and related problems, including addictive behavior more generally.  Focus is on psychosocial aspects of addictions, specifically the important antecedents and consequences of drinking, and the brain-behavior processes that underlie them.  This work has examined the role of alcohol in intrapersonal and interpersonal phenomena such as anxiety, aggression, and sexual response, and parent-child interactions in families with ADHD children. 

Current Research

On going research: (a) laboratory analogue investigations of the relation between alcohol intoxication and emotional response, considering attention and other cognitive variables as mediators and the startle reflex as an index of affective valence, and (b) application of data on emotional responses to addiction-relevant cues to investigation of craving and conflict and to interventions designed to address them.  A new initiative examines the effect of alcohol on stereotyping and prejudice.

*indicates graduate student working under Dr. Lang’s supervision

Casbon*, T., Lang, A., Curtin, J., & Patrick, C. (2003).  Deleterious effects of alcohol intoxication: Diminished cognitive control and its behavioral consequences.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, in press.  SEE ABSTRACT

Curtin*, J., Patrick, C., Lang, A., Cacioppo, J., & Birbaumer, N.  (2001).  Alcohol affects emotion through cognition.  Psychological Science, 12, 527-531.  SEE ABSTRACT

Breiner*, M., Stritzke*, W., & Lang, A. (1999).  Approaching avoidance: A step essential to the understanding of craving.  Alcohol: Research and Health, 23 (3), 197-206. SEE ABSRACT

Lang, A., Patrick, C., & Stritzke*, W.  (1999).  Alcohol and emotional response:  A multidimensional-multilevel analysis.  In K. Leonard & H. Blane (Eds.).  Psychological theories of drinking and alcoholism - 2^nd Edition (pp. 328-371).  New York: Guilford.  SEE ABSTRACT

Pelham, W. & Lang, A. (1993).  Parental alcohol consumption and deviant child behavior: Laboratory studies of reciprocal effects.  Clinical Psychology Review, 13 (8), 763-784. SEE ABSTRACT

Lang, A. (1992).  Alcohol: Teenage drinking.  In S. Synder(Series Ed.) Encyclopedia of psychoactive drugs.  2nd Edition.  (Volume 3).  New York: Chelsea House. (book – no abstract)

Lang, A. & Kidorf*, M. (1990).  Problem drinking: Cognitive-behavioral strategies for self-control.  In M. Thase, B. Edelstein & M. Hersen (Eds.) Handbook of outpatient treatment of adults (pp. 413-441). New York:  Plenum. (book chapter – no abstract)

Lang, A. (1983).  Addictive personality:  A viable construct?  In P. Levison, D. Gerstein & D. Maloff (Eds.), Commonalities in substance abuse and habitual behavior (pp. 157-235).  Lexington, MS:  LexingtonBooks of D. C. Heath.  Also summarized in National Academy of Sciences, Personality factors in substance abuse:  A report to the U. S. Army.  Washington, D. C.:  National AcademyPress, 1983.  (book chapter – no abstract)

Lang, A., Goeckner*, D., Adesso, V. & Marlatt, G. (1975).  Effects of alcohol on aggression in male social drinkers.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 84, 508-518.  SEE ABSTRACT

Lang, A. (Principal Investigator) with Chris Patrick (Co-Investigator) Probing Affective and Cognitive Effects of Alcohol.  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.  Research Grant R01 AA12164, $1,141,224, 2000-2005.  SEE ABSTRACT

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