Publications

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In Press

Cofresí, R.U., Piasecki, T.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (in press). Alcohol insensitivity and the incentive salience of alcohol: Two decades of work relevant to future directions of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment. Translational Psychiatry.
Miller, M. B., Wycoff, A. M., Tracy, E. L., Moskal, K. R., Borsari, B., Bartholow, B.D., Steinley, D., & McCrae, C. S. (in press). Daily associations between sleep and alcohol use among Veterans: Acute and cumulative effects. Addiction.

2025

Volpert-Esmond, H.I., Bray, J., Levsen, M.P., & Bartholow, B.D. (2025). Share the wealth: Neurophysiological and motivational mechanisms contributing to racial discrimination in economic decision making. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 116, 104683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104683 PDF

2024

Kohen, C.B., Spychala, K.M., Davis-Stober, C.P., Piasecki, T.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (2024). Retrospective self-reports of sensitivity to the effects of alcohol: Trait-like stability and concomitant changes with alcohol involvement. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 38(5), 540-551. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000967 PDF
Acuff, S.F., Cofresi, R., Varner, A., Dennhardt, A.A., Sable, J., Bartholow, B.D., MacKillop, J., Murphy, J.G. (2024). Correspondence between the alcohol-P3 event-related potential and alcohol demand phenotypes of alcohol reward among heavy drinking emerging adults. Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research, 48(7), 1302-1312. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.15377 | PDF
Cofresí, R.U., Upton, S., Brown, A., Piasecki, T.M., Bartholow, B.D., & Froeliger, B. (2024). Mesocorticolimbic system reactivity to alcohol use-related visual cues as a function of alcohol sensitivity phenotype: a pilot fMRI study. Addiction Neuroscience, 11, 100156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addicn.2024.100156 PDF
Kohen, C.B., Cofresí, R.U., Piasecki, T.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (2024). Predictive utility of the P3 event-related potential (ERP) response to alcohol cues for ecologically assessed alcohol craving and use. Addiction Biology, 29(2):e13368. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.13368 PDF
Joyner, K.J., Morris, D., McCarthy, D.M., Patrick, C.J., & Bartholow, B.D. (2024). Variants of the P3 event-related potential operate as indicators of distinct mechanisms contributing to problematic alcohol use. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49, 1819–1826. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-01874-7 PDF

2023

Volpert-Esmond, H.I., Landor, A.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (2023). Immediate and Delayed Effects of Everyday Racial Discrimination on Mental Health among Black College Students: A Mixed Methods Approach. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26(8), 1750-1773. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221131029
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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., De Hart, T., Dvorak, R. D., Emery, N., Enkema, M., Fairbairn, C. E., . . . King, K. M. (2023). The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data. Psychological Bulletin. 149(1-2), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000387
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Waddell, J.T., Bartholow, B.D., & Piasecki, T.M. (2023). Changes in affect and alcohol craving during naturally occurring drinking episodes: The role of day-level drinking motives. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 31(3), 621–632. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000600
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Kallen, A. M., Patrick, C. J., Bartholow, B. D., & Hajcak, G. (2023) Drinking alcohol by mid-adolescence is related to reduced reward reactivity: Novel evidence of positive valence system alterations in early initiating female youth. Biological Psychology, 181, 108597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108597 PDF
Bartholow, B.D. (2023). Default categorization of outgroup faces and the other race effect: Commentary on the special issue. British Journal of Psychology, 114 (Suppl. 1), 10-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12648
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Kohen, C. B., Cofresí, R. U., Bartholow, B. D., & Piasecki, T. M. (2023). Alcohol craving in the natural environment: Moderating roles of cue exposure, drinking, and alcohol sensitivity. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 31(1), 57–71. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000540
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2022

Cofresí, R.U., Piasecki, T.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (2022). Acute Sensitization of the P3 Event-Related Potential Response (ERP) to Beverage Images and the Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). Addiction Neuroscience, 4, 100041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addicn.2022.100041
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Cofresí, R.U., Piasecki, T.M., Bartholow, B.D. & Schachtman, T.S. (2022). Enhanced conditioned “liking” of novel visual cues paired with alcohol or non-alcohol beverage container images among individuals at higher risk for alcohol use disorder. Psychopharmacology, 239, 3567–3578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-022-06231-4
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Irvin, K., Bell, D., Steinley, D., & Bartholow, B.D. (2022). The thrill of victory: Savoring positive affect, psychophysiological reward processing, and symptoms of depression. Emotion, 22(6), 1281–1293. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000914
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Cofresí, R.U., Kohen, C., Motschman, C., Wiers, R.W., Piasecki, T.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (2022) Behavioral response bias and event-related brain potentials implicate elevated incentive salience attribution to alcohol cues in emerging adults with lower sensitivity to alcohol. Addiction, 117, 892–904. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15728
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Martins, J.S., Joyner, K.J., McCarthy, D.M., Morris, D., Patrick, C.J., & Bartholow, B.D. (2022). Differential brain responses to alcohol-related and natural rewards are associated with alcohol use and problems: Evidence for reward dysregulation. Addiction Biology, 27(2), e13118. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.13118
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Cofresí, R.U., Piasecki, T.M., Hajcak, G., & Bartholow, B.D. (2022). Internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the P3 event-related potential (ERP) elicited by alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage pictures. Psychophysiology, 59, e13967. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13967
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2021

Cofresí, R.U., Watts, A.L., Martins, J.S., Wood, P.K., Sher, K.J., Cowan, N., Miyake, A., & Bartholow, B.D. (2021) Acute effect of alcohol on working memory updating. Addiction, 116, 3029-3043. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15506
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Ross, C.S., Babor, T.F., Bartholow, B.D., DeJong, W., Fitzgerald, N., Jackson, K.M., Jernigan, D.H., Naimi, T.S., Noel, J.K., Petticrew, M., Severi, K., Siegel, M.B., Stockwell, T., Tori, M., and Xuan, Z. (2021). Call to restore funding to monitor youth exposure to alcohol advertising. Addiction, 116(10), 2922– 2923. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15590
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Volpert-Esmond, H.I., & Bartholow, B.D. (2021). A functional coupling of brain and behavior during social categorization of faces. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(11), 1580-1595. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220976688
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Fleming, K.A., Cofresí, R.U., & Bartholow, B.D. (2021). Transfer of incentive salience from a first-order alcohol cue to a novel second-order alcohol cue among individuals at risk for alcohol use disorder: Electrophysiological evidence. Addiction, 116 , 1734-1746. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15380
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Von Gunten, C., & Bartholow, B.D. (2021). Exploring power in response inhibition tasks using the bootstrap: The impact of number of participants, number of trials, effect magnitude, and study design. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 163, 35-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.08.008
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Davis, C.N., Piasecki, T.M., Bartholow, B.D., & Slutske, W.S. (2021). Effects of alcohol sensitivity on alcohol-induced blackouts and passing out: An examination of the Alcohol Sensitivity Questionnaire among underage drinkers. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45(5), 1149-1160. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14607
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Volpert-Esmond, H.I., Page-Gould, E., & Bartholow, B.D. (2021). Using multilevel models for the analysis of event-related potentials. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 162, 145-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.02.006
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Syed-Abdul, M.M., Jacome-Sosa, M., Hu, Q., Gaballah, A.H., Winn, N.C., Lee, N.T., Mucinski, J.M., Manrique-Acevedo, C., Lastra, G., Anderson, J.M., Al-Juboori, A., Bartholow, B.D., & Parks, E.J. (2021). The Tailgate Study: Differing metabolic effects of a bout of excessive eating and drinking. Alcohol, 90, 45-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2020.11.001
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2020

Cofresí, R.U., & Bartholow, B.D. (2020). Acute effects of alcohol on error-elicited negative affect during a cognitive control task. Psychopharmacology, 237, 3383–3397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-020-05619-4
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Hone, L.S.E., Scofield, J.E., Bartholow, B.D., & Geary, D. (2020). Frequency of recent binge drinking is associated with sex-specific cognitive deficits: Evidence for condition-dependent trait expression in humans. Evolutionary Psychology, 18(4), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1474704920954445
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Cofresi, R.U., Bartholow, B.D., & Fromme, K. (2020). Female drinkers are more sensitive than male drinkers to alcohol-induced heart rate increase. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 28(5), 540-552. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pha0000338
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Von Gunten, C., Martins, J.S., & Bartholow, B.D. (2020). Inhibition tasks are not associated with a variety of behaviors in college students. European Journal of Personality, 34, 412–430. https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fper.2250
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Acevedo, M.B., Teran-Garcia, M., Bucholz, K.K., Eagon, J.C., Bartholow, B.D., Burd, N.A., Khan, N., Rowitz, B., & Pepino, M.Y. (2020). Alcohol sensitivity in women after undergoing bariatric surgery: a cross-sectional study. Surgery for Obesity and Related Disorders, 16(4), 536-544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soard.2020.01.014
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Volpert-Esmond, H.I., Scherer, L., & Bartholow, B.D. (2020). Dissociating automatic associations: Comparing two implicit measurements of race bias. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(4), 876-888. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2655
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Perkins, E. R., Joyner, K. J., Patrick, C. J., Bartholow, B. D., Latzman, R. D., DeYoung, C. G., Kotov, R., Reininghaus, U., Cooper, S. E., Afzali, M. H., Docherty, A. R., Dretsch, M. N., Eaton, N. R., Goghari, V. M., Haltigan, J. D., Krueger, R. F., Martin, E. A., Michelini, G., Ruocco, A. C., Tackett, J. L., Venables, N. C., Waldman, I. D., & Zald, D. H. (2020). Neurobiology and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: Progress toward ontogenetically informed and clinically useful nosology. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 22(1), 51-63. https://dx.doi.org/10.31887%2FDCNS.2020.22.1%2Feperkins
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Jackson, K.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (2020). Psychological processes underlying effects of alcohol marketing on youth drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Supplement 19, 81-96. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsads.2020.s19.81
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Katsumi, Y., Dolcos, F., Moore, M., Bartholow, B.D., Fabiani, M., & Dolcos, S. (2020). Electrophysiological correlates of racial ingroup bias in observing nonverbal social encounters: An EEG investigation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 167-186.https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01475
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Bartholow, B.D. (2020). For Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology: Monica Fabiani and Gabriele Gratton. Psychophysiology, e13536. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13536
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Gatzke-Kopp, L, Karayanidis, F, Bartholow, BD, et al.(2020) SPR statement on racial justice. Psychophysiology. 57:e13634. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13634
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2019

Cofresi, R.U., Bartholow, B.D., & Piasecki, T.M. (2019). Evidence for incentive salience sensitization as a pathway to alcohol use disorder. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 107, 897-926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.10.009
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McCabe, S.L., & Bartholow, B.D. (2019). Mortality salience leads to greater consumption of an ostensibly alcoholic beverage on Friday vs other weekdays. British Journal of Health Psychology, 24, 847-858.https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12382
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Volpert-Esmond, H.I., & Bartholow, B.D. (2019). Explicit categorization goals affect attention-related processing of race and gender during person construal. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103839
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Joyner, K.J., Bowyer, C.B., Yancey, J.R., Venables, N.C., Foell, J., Worthy, D.A., Hajcak, G., Bartholow, B.D., & Patrick, C.J. (2019). Blunted reward sensitivity and trait disinhibition interact to predict substance use problems. Clinical Psychological Science, 7, 1109-1124.https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2167702619838480
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Miller, A.P., Gizer, I.R., Fleming, W.A., Otto, J.M., Deak, J.D., Martins, J.S., & Bartholow, B.D. (2019). Polygenic liability for schizophrenia predicts shifting-specific executive function deficits and tobacco use in a moderate drinking community sample. Psychiatry Research, 279, 47-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.06.025
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Martins, J.S., Bartholow, B.D., Cooper, M.L., Irvin, K.M., & Piasecki, T.M. (2019). Interactive effects of naturalistic drinking context and alcohol sensitivity on neural alcohol cue-reactivity responses. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43, 1777-1789.https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14134
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Hilgard, J., Engelhardt, C.R., Rouder, J.N., Segert, I., & Bartholow, B.D. (2019). Null effects of game violence, game difficulty, and 2D:4D digit ratio on aggressive behavior. Psychological Science, 30, 606-616. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619829688
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2018

Bartholow, B.D., Loersch, C., & Ito, T.A., Volpert-Esmond, H. I., Levsen, M.P., Fleming, K.A., Bolls, P., & Carter, B. (2018). University-affiliated alcohol marketing enhances the incentive salience of alcohol cues. Psychological Science, 29, 83-94. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0956797617731367
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Johnson, M.P., Volpert-Esmond, H.I., & Bartholow, B.D. (2018). It’s about time: Event-related potentials and the temporal parameters of mental events. In H. Blanton, J.M. LaCroix, & G.D. Webster (Eds.), Measurement in social psychology (pp 102-126). New York: Taylor & Francis. DOI
Levsen, M.P., & Bartholow, B.D. (2018). Neural and behavioral effects of regulating emotional responses to errors during an implicit racial bias task. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(6), 1283-1297. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.3758/s13415-018-0639-8
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Hatz, L., McCarty, K., Bartholow, B.D., & McCarthy, D.M. (2018). Explicit attitudes, working memory capacity, and driving after drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 42, 2047-2053. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13856
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Trela, C.J., Hayes, A.W., Bartholow, B.D., Sher, K.J., Heath, A.C., & Piasecki, T.M. (2018). Moderation of alcohol craving reactivity to drinking-related contexts by individual differences in alcohol sensitivity: An ecological investigation. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26(4), 354-365.https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pha0000206
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Acevedo, M.B., Eagon, J.C., Bartholow, B.D., Klein, S., Bucholz, K.K., & Pepino, M.Y. (2018). Sleeve gastrectomy surgery: when 2 alcoholic drinks are converted to 4. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 14(3), 277-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soard.2017.11.010
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Stepanova, E.V., Bartholow, B.D., Saults, J.S., & Friedman, R.S. (2018). Effects of exposure to alcohol-related cues on racial discrimination. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 380-387.https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000334
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Martins, J. S., Bartholow, B. D., Cooper, M. L., Von Gunten, C. D., & Wood, P. K. (2018). Associations between executive functioning, affect-regulation drinking motives, and alcohol use and problems. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32, 16-28. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/adb0000324
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Bartholow, B. D., Fleming, K. A., Wood, P. K., Cowan, N., Saults, J.S., Altamirano, L., Miyake, A., Martins, J., & Sher, K. J. (2018). Alcohol effects on inhibition: Differences across tasks and individuals. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26, 251-267. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pha0000190
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Volpert-Esmond, H.I., Merkle, E.C., Levsen, M.P., Ito, T.A., & Bartholow, B.D. (2018). Using trial-level data and multilevel modeling to investigate within-task change in event-related potentials. Psychophysiology, 55, e13044. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13044
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Stepanova, E., Bartholow, B.D., Saults, J.S., Friedman, R.S., Chi, J., & Hollis, A. (2018). Effects of exposure to alcohol-related cues on racial prejudice. Social Psychology, 49, 113–124.https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000334
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Von Gunten, C., Volpert-Esmond, H. I., & Bartholow, B.D. (2018). Temporal dynamics of reactive cognitive control as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Psychophysiology, 55, e13007. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13007
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Bartholow, B.D. (2018). The aggressive brain: Insights from neuroscience. Current Opinion in Psychology, 19, 60-64.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.04.002
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2017

Bushman, B.J., Anderson, C.A., Bartholow, B.D., Cantor, J., Christakis, D., Coyne, S., Donnerstein, E., Funk Brockmyer, J., Gentile, D.A., Green, C.S., Huesmann, R., Hummer, T., Krahe, B., Strasburger, V., Warburton, W., Wilson, B.J., & Ybarra, M. (2017). Screen violence and youth behavior. Pediatrics, 140 (Suppl. 2), S142-S147. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-1758T
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Hone, L.S.E., Bartholow, B.D., Piasecki, T.M., & Sher, K.J. (2017). Women's alcohol sensitivity predicts alcohol-related regretted sex. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41, 1630–1636.https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13447
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Hilgard, J.B., Engelhardt, C.R., Bartholow, B.D., & Rouder, J.N. (2017). How much evidence is p > .05? Stimulus pre-testing and null primary outcomes in violent video games research. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 6, 361-380. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ppm0000102
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Volpert-Esmond, H.I., Merkle, E., & Bartholow, B.D. (2017). The iterative nature of person construal: Evidence from event-related potentials. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(7), 1097-1107.https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx048
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Otto, J., Gizer, I., Deak, J.D., Fleming, K.A., & Bartholow, B.D. (2017). A cis-eQTL in OPRM1 is associated with subjective response to alcohol and alcohol use. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41, 929-938. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13369
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Karcher, N.R., Bartholow, B.D., Martin, E.A., & Kerns, J. (2017). Associations between electrophysiological evidence of reward and punishment-based learning and psychotic experiences and social anhedonia in at-risk groups. Neuropsychopharmacology, 42, 925–932. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2016.192　
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Von Gunten, C., Bartholow, B. D., & Scherer, L. (2017). Using ERPs to investigate valence processing in the Affect Misattribution Procedure. Psychophysiology, 54, 172–181. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12773
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Bartholow, B. D. (2017). The aggressive brain. In B. J. Bushman (Ed.), The social psychology of aggression and violence (p. 41-60). New York: Psychology Press.
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Korucuoglu, O., Sher, K.J., Wood P.K., Saults, J.S., Altamirano, L., Miyake, A., & Bartholow, B.D. (2017). Acute alcohol effects on set-shifting and its moderation by baseline individual differences: A latent variable analysis. Addiction, 112, 442–453. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13684
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Piasecki, T. M., Fleming, K. A., Trela, C. J., & Bartholow, B. D. (2017). P3 event-related potential reactivity to smoking cues: Relations with craving, tobacco dependence and alcohol sensitivity in young adult smokers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 31, 61-72. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/adb0000233
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Martin, E.A., Karcher, N.R., Bartholow, B.D., Siegle, G.J., & Kerns, J.G. (2017). An electrophysiological investigation of emotional abnormalities in groups at risk for schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorders. Biological Psychology, 124, 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.02.001
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Jeronimo, R. I., Volpert, H. I., & Bartholow, B. D. (2017). Event-related potentials reveal early attention bias for negative, unexpected behavior. Social Neuroscience, 12(2), 232-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2016.1144646
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2016

Hilgard, J.B., Engelhardt, C.R., & Bartholow, B.D. (2016). Brief use of a specific gun in a violent game does not affect attitudes towards that gun. Royal Society Open Science, 3, 160310. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160310
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Bailey, K., & Bartholow, B. D. (2016). Alcohol words elicit reactive cognitive control in low-sensitivity drinkers. Psychophysiology, 53, 1751–1759. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1111/psyp.12741
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Trela, C. J., Piasecki, T. M., Bartholow, B. D., Heath, A. C., & Sher, K. J. (2016). The natural expression of individual differences in self-reported level of response to alcohol during ecologically assessed drinking episodes. Psychopharmacology, 233, 2185-2195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-016-4270-5
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Fleming, K. A., Heintzelman, S. J., & Bartholow, B. D. (2016). Specifying associations between conscientiousness and executive functioning: Mental set shifting, not prepotent response inhibition or working memory updating. Journal of Personality, 84, 348-360. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12163
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Fleming, K. A., Bartholow, B. D., Hilgard, J., McCarthy, D. M., O’Neill, S. E., Steinley, D., & Sher, K. J. (2016). The Alcohol Sensitivity Questionnaire: Evidence for construct validity. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 40, 880-888. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13015
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Bailey, K., Amlung, M., Morris, D. H., Price, M. H., Von Gunten, C. D., McCarthy, D. M., & Bartholow, B. D. (2016). Separate and joint effects of alcohol and caffeine on conflict monitoring and adaptation. Psychopharmacology, 233,1245–1255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-016-4208-y
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Von Gunten, C. D., Bartholow, B. D., & Volpert, H. I. (2016). Perceiving persons: Social cognitive neuroscience approaches. In E. Harmon-Jones & M. Inzlicht (Eds.), Social neuroscience: Biological approaches to social psychology (pp. 10-33). New York: Psychology Press.https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.4324/9781315628714-2
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2015

Pepino, M. Y., Okunade, A., Eagon, C., Bartholow, B. D., Bucholz, K., & Klein, S. (2015). Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery converts two alcoholic drinks to four. JAMA Surgery, 150(11), 1096-1098. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2015.1884
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Loersch, C., Bartholow, B. D., Manning, M., Calanchini, J., & Sherman, J. W. (2015). Intoxicated prejudice: The impact of alcohol consumption on implicitly and explicitly measured racial attitudes. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18, 256-268. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430214561693
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Engelhardt, C. E., Mazurek, M. O., Hilgard, J., Rouder, J. N., & Bartholow, B. D. (2015). Effects of violent video game exposure on aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, and aggressive affect among adults with and without autism spectrum disorder. Psychological Science, 26, 1187-1200. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0956797615583038
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Anderson, C. A., Andrighetto, L., Bartholow, B. D., Begue, L., Boxer, P., et al. (2015). Consensus on media violence effects: Comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 4, 215–221. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ppm0000063
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Inzlicht, M., Bartholow, B. D., & Hirsh, J. B. (2015). Emotional foundations of cognitive control. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 126-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.01.004
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Hilgard, J., Bartholow, B. D., Dickter, C. L., & Blanton, H. (2015). Characterizing switching and congruency effects in the Implicit Association Test as reactive and proactive cognitive control. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 381-388. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu060
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Lee, M. R., Bartholow, B. D., McCarthy, D. M., & Sher, K. J. (2015). Two alternative approaches to conventional person-mean imputation scoring of the Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol scale (SRE). Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 29, 231-236. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/adb0000015
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Engelhardt, C. R., Hilgard, J., & Bartholow, B. D. (2015). Difficult (but not violent) action video games dysregulate cognitive control. Computers in Human Behavior, 45, 85-92.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.089
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Ito, T. A., Friedman, N. P., Bartholow, B. D., Correll, J., Loersch, C., Altamirano, L., & Miyake, A. (2015). Toward a comprehensive model of executive cognitive function in implicit racial bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 187–218. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0038557
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2014

Hilgard, J., Weinberg, A., Hajcak Proudfit, G., & Bartholow, B. D. (2014). The negativity bias in affective picture processing depends on top-down and bottom-up motivational significance. Emotion, 14, 940-949. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0036791
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Ellingson, J. M., Fleming, K. A., Vergés, A., Bartholow, B. D., & Sher, K. J. (2014). Working memory as a moderator of impulsivity and alcohol involvement: Testing the cognitive-motivational theory of alcohol use with prospective and working memory updating data. Addictive Behaviors, 39, 1622-1631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.01.004
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Pedersen, W. B., Vasquez, E., Bartholow, B. D., Grosvenor, M., & Truong, A. (2014). Are you insulting me? Exposure to alcohol primes increases aggression following ambiguous provocation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1037-1049. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0146167214534993
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Bailey, K., Bartholow, B. D., Saults, J. S., & Lust, S. A. (2014). Give me just a little more time: Effects of alcohol on the failure and recovery of cognitive control. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123, 152–167. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035662
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Amodio, D. M., Bartholow, B. D., & Ito, T. A. (2014). Tracking the dynamics of the social brain: ERP approaches for social cognitive and affective neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 385-393.https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nst177
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Fleming, K. A., & Bartholow, B. D. (2014). Alcohol cues, approach bias, and inhibitory control: Applying a dual process model of addiction to alcohol sensitivity. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 28, 85-96.https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0031565
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2013

Levitt, A., Schlauch, R. C., Bartholow, B. D., & Sher, K. J. (2013). Gender differences in natural language factors of subjective intoxication in college students: An experimental vignette study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 37, 2145–2151. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.12200
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Bartholow, B. D. (2013). Event-related brain potentials and the role of cognitive control in implicit racial bias. In N. Ellemers, B. Derks, & D. T. Scheepers (Eds.), The neuroscience of prejudice and intergroup relations (pp. 190-208). London, UK: Psychology Press.
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Hilgard, J., Engelhardt, C. R., & Bartholow, B. D. (2013). Individual differences in motives, preferences, and pathology in video games: The gaming attitudes, motives, and experiences scales (GAMES). Frontiers in Psychology, 4(608), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00608
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Engelhardt, C. R., & Bartholow, B. D. (2013). Effects of situational cues on aggressive behavior. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 762-774. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12067
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Fleming, K. A., Bartholow, B. D., Sable, J., Pearson, M., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2013). Effects of alcohol on sequential information processing: Evidence for temporal myopia. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27, 184-190.https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0028535
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Shin, E., & Bartholow, B. D. (2013). Category-based inhibition of focused attention across consecutive trials. Psychophysiology, 50, 365-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12022
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Bartholow, B. D., & Bolls, P. (2013). Media psychophysiology: The brain and beyond. In K. Dill (Ed.), Oxford handbook of media psychology (pp. 474-495). New York: Oxford University Press.
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2012

McCarthy, D. M., Niculete, M. E., Treloar, H. R., Morris, D. M., & Bartholow, B. D. (2012). Acute alcohol effects on impulsivity: Associations with drinking and driving behavior. Addiction, 107, 2109-2114. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03974.x
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Stepanova, E. V., Bartholow, B. D., Saults, J. S., & Friedman, R. S. (2012). Alcohol-related cues promote automatic racial bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 905-911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2012.02.006
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Weinberg, A., Hilgard, J., Bartholow, B. D., & Hajcak, G. (2012). Emotional targets: Evaluative categorization as a function of context and content. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 84, 149–154.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.01.023
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Bartholow, B. D., Henry, E. A., Lust, S. A., Saults, J. S., & Wood, P. K. (2012). Alcohol effects on performance monitoring and adjustment: Affect modulation and impairment of evaluative cognitive control. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 173–186. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0023664
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2011

Engelhardt, C.E., Bartholow, B.D., & Saults, J.S. (2011). Violent and nonviolent video games differentially affect physical aggression for individuals high versus low in dispositional anger. Aggressive Behavior, 37, 539-546. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.20411
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Bartholow, B. D., & Dickter, C. L. (2011). Person perception. In J. Decety & J. T. Cacioppo (Eds.), Handbook of social neuroscience (pp. 404-418). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Amodio, D. M., & Bartholow, B. D. (2011). Event-related potential methods in social cognition. In A. Voss, C. Stahl, & C. Klauer (Eds.), Cognitive methods in social psychology (pp. 303-339).
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Engelhardt, C. R., Bartholow, B. D., Kerr, G. T. & Bushman, B. J. (2011). This is your brain on violent video games: Neural desensitization to violence predicts increased aggression following violent video game exposure. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1033-1036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.03.027
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Loersch, C., & Bartholow, B. D. (2011). The color of safety: Ingroup-associated colors make beer safer. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 190-194.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.09.001
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2010

Bartholow, B. D. (2010). Event-related brain potentials and social cognition: On using physiological information to constrain social-cognitive theories. Social Cognition, 28, 723-747. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2010.28.6.723
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Shin, E., Lust, S. A., Henry, E. A., Hopfinger, J. B., & Bartholow, B. D. (2010). Electrophysiological evidence of alcohol-related attentional bias in social drinkers low in alcohol sensitivity. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 24, 508-515. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0019663
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Bartholow, B. D., & Henry, E. A. (2010). Response conflict and affective responses in the control and expression of race bias. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 871-888. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00299.x
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Sestir, M. A., & Bartholow, B. D. (2010). Violent and nonviolent video games produce opposing effects on aggressive and prosocial outcomes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 934-942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.06.005
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Bushman, B. J., & Bartholow, B. D. (2010). Aggression. In R. F. Baumeister & E. J. Finkel (Eds.), Advanced social psychology (pp. 303-340). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Freeman, N., Friedman, R. S., Bartholow, B. D., & Wulfert, E. (2010). Effects of alcohol priming on social disinhibition.Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 18, 135-144. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0018871
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Bartholow, B. D., Lust, S. A., & Tragesser, S. (2010). Specificity of P3 event-related potential reactivity to alcohol cues in individuals low in alcohol sensitivity. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 24, 220-228. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0017705
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Dickter, C. L., & Bartholow, B. D. (2010). Ingroup categorization and response conflict: Interactive effects of target race, flanker compatibility and infrequency on N2 amplitude. Psychophysiology, 47, 596-601.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.00963.x
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Henry, E. A., Bartholow, B. D., & Arndt, J. (2010). Death on the brain: Effects of mortality salience on the neural correlates of ingroup and outgroup categorization. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5, 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsp041
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Bartholow, B. D. (2010). On the role of conflict and control in social cognition: Event-related brain potential investigations. Psychophysiology, 47, 201-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00955.x
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2009

Ito, T. A., & Bartholow, B. D. (2009). The neural correlates of race. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 524-531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2009.10.002
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Bartholow, B. D., Riordan, M. A., Saults, J. S., & Lust, S. A. (2009). Psychophysiological evidence of response conflict and strategic control of responses in affective priming. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 655-666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.015
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Levitt, A ., Sher, K. J., & Bartholow, B. D. (2009). The language of intoxication. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 33, 448-454. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00855.x
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Lust, S. A., & Bartholow, B. D. (2009). Self-reported and P3 event-related potential evaluations of condoms: Does what we say match how we feel? Psychophysiology, 46, 420-424. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00775.x
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Bartholow, B. D., & Amodio, D. M. (2009). Using event-related brain potentials in social psychological research: A brief review and tutorial. In E. Harmon-Jones & J. S. Beer (Eds.), Methods in social neuroscience (pp. 198-232). New York: Guilford Press.
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2008

Bartholow, B. D., & Dickter, C. L. (2008). A response conflict account of the effects of stereotypes on racial categorization.Social Cognition, 26, 273-291. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2008.26.3.314
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2007

Carnagey, N. L., Anderson, C. A., & Bartholow, B. D. (2007). Media violence and social neuroscience: New questions, new opportunities. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 178-182. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-8721.2007.00499.x
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Bartholow, B. D., Henry, E. A., & Lust, S. A. (2007). Effects of alcohol sensitivity on P3 event-related potential reactivity to alcohol cues. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21, 555-563. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0893-164X.21.4.555
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Sher, K. J., Bartholow, B. D., Peuser, K., Erickson, D., & Wood, M. D. (2007). Stress-response dampening effects of alcohol: Attention as a mediator and moderator. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 362-377. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0021-843X.116.2.362
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Dickter, C. L., & Bartholow, B. D. (2007). Event-related brain potential evidence of ingroup and outgroup attention biases. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsm012
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Sestir, M., & Bartholow, B. D. (2007). Aggressive cognition and its link with aggressive behavior. In T. A. Gannon, T. Ward, A. R. Beech, & D. Fisher (Eds.), Violent offenders’ cognition: Theory, research, and practice (pp. 157-157-178). Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
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Bartholow, B. D., & Dickter, C. L. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience of person perception: A selective review focused on the event-related brain potential. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Social neuroscience: Integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior (pp. 376-400). New York: Guilford Press.
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Wiers, R. W., Bartholow, B. D., van den Wildenberg, E., Thrush, C., Engels, R., Sher, K. J., Grenard, J., Ames, S. L., & Stacy, A. (2007). Automatic and controlled processes and the development of addictive behaviors in adolescents: A review and a model. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 86, 263-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2006.09.021
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Friedman, R. S., McCarthy, D. M., Bartholow, B. D., & Hicks, J. (2007). Interactive effects of alcohol outcome expectancies and alcohol cues on non-consumptive behavior. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 15, 102-114. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/1064-1297.15.1.102
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2006

*Bartholow, B. D., Bushman, B. J., & Sestir, M. A. (2006). Chronic violent video game exposure and desensitization: Behavioral and event-related brain potential data. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 532-539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2005.08.006
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>> *This article was digested in Science, Vol. 311, p. 313, 2006. PDF
Bartholow, B. D., Dickter, C. L., & Sestir, M. A. (2006). Stereotype activation and control of race bias: Cognitive control of inhibition and its impairment by alcohol. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 272-287. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0022-3514.90.2.272
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Bartholow, B. D., & Heinz, A. (2006). Alcohol and aggression without consumption: Alcohol cues, aggressive thoughts, and hostile perception bias. Psychological Science, 17, 30-37.https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9280.2005.01661.x
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2005

Bartholow, B. D., Sestir, M. A., & Davis, E. (2005). Correlates and consequences of exposure to video game violence: Hostile personality, empathy, and aggressive behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1573-1586. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0146167205277205
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Bartholow, B. D., Pearson, M. A., Dickter, C., Sher, K. J., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2005). Strategic control and medial frontal negativity: Beyond errors and response conflict. Psychophysiology, 42, 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00258.x
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Bartholow, B. D., Anderson, C. A., Carnagey, N. L., & Benjamin, A. J. Jr. (2005). Interactive effects of life experience and situational cues on aggression: The weapons priming effect in hunters and nonhunters. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 48-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2004.05.005
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2004

Bartholow, B. D., & O’Neill, S. E. (2004). Alcohol use and the fraternity and sorority experience: Recent research findings and suggestions for advisors. Perspectives, summer (invited).
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2003

Bartholow, B. D., Pearson, M. A., Gratton, G., & Fabiani, M. (2003). Effects of alcohol on person perception: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 627-638. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0022-3514.85.4.627
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Bartholow, B. D., Sher, K. J., & Krull, J. L. (2003). Changes in heavy drinking over the third decade of life as a function of collegiate fraternity and sorority involvement: A prospective, multilevel analysis. Health Psychology, 22, 616-626. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0278-6133.22.6.616
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Bartholow, B. D., Pearson, M. A., Sher, K. J., Wieman, L. C., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2003). Effects of alcohol consumption and alcohol susceptibility on cognition: A psychophysiological examination. Biological Psychology, 64, 167-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0301-0511(03)00108-X
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2002

Bartholow, B. D., & Anderson, C. A. (2002). Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior: Potential sex differences.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 283-290. https://doi.org/10.1006/jesp.2001.1502
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Wood, P. K., Sher, K. J., & Bartholow, B. D. (2002). Alcohol use disorders and cognitive abilities in young adulthood: A prospective study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 897-907. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0022-006X.70.4.897
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2001

Bartholow, B. D., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., & Bettencourt, B. A. (2001). A psychophysiological analysis of cognitive processing of and affective responses to social expectancy violations. Psychological Science, 12, 197-204. https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1467-9280.00336
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Sher, K. J., Bartholow, B. D., & Nanda, S. (2001). Short- and long-term effects of fraternity and sorority membership on heavy drinking: A social norms perspective. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 15, 42-51.https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0893-164X.15.1.42
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2000

Bartholow, B. D., Sher, K. J., & Strathman, A. (2000). Moderation of the expectancy – alcohol use relation by private self-consciousness: data from a longitudinal study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1410-1421. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0146167200263008
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Kernahan, C. A., Bartholow, B. D., & Bettencourt, B. A. (2000). Effects of category-based expectancy violation on affect-related evaluations: Toward a comprehensive model. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 22, 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15324834BASP2202_2
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Sher, K. J., Bartholow, B. D., & Wood, M. D. (2000). Personality and substance use disorders: A prospective study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 818-829.
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Pre 2000

Sher, K. J., Trull, T. J., Bartholow, B. D. & Veith, A. (1999). Personality and alcoholism: Issues, methods, and etiological processes. In K. E. Leonard & H. T. Blane (Eds.), Psychological theories of drinking and alcoholism (2nd Ed., pp. 54-105). New York: Guilford Press.
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Bettencourt, B. A., & Bartholow, B. D. (1998). The importance of status legitimacy for intergroup attitudes among numerical minorities. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 759-775. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1998.tb01247.x
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Anderson, C. A., Benjamin, A. J. Jr., & Bartholow, B. D. (1998). Does the gun pull the trigger? Automatic priming effects of weapon pictures and weapon names. Psychological Science, 9, 308-314. https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1467-9280.00061
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