Social Cognitive and Addiction Neuroscience Lab (SCANlab)

List of publications

for full publications listing.

Disclaimer: The PDFs available for download from this page are intended for fair use as defined by U.S. Copyright law, and may not be used for commercial purposes. The definitive versions of journal publications are available from the publishers’ websites.

In Press | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | Pre 2000

In Press

  • Acuff, S. F., Cofresi, R., Varner, A., Dennhardt, A. A., Sable, J., Bartholow, B., MacKillop, J., Murphy, J. G. (in press). Correspondence Between the Alcohol-P3 Event-related Potential and Alcohol Demand Phenotypes of Alcohol Reward Among Heavy Drinking Emerging Adults. Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research. Online ahead of print.

  • Joyner, K.J., Morris, D., McCarthy, D.M., Patrick, C.J., & Bartholow, B.D. (in press). Variants of the P3 event-related potential operate as indicators of distinct mechanisms contributing to problematic alcohol use. Neuropsychopharmacology.

  • Cofresí, R. U., Upton, S., Brown, A., Piasecki, T. M., Bartholow, B. D., & Froeliger, B. (in press). Mesocorticolimbic system reactivity to alcohol use-related visual cues as a function of alcohol sensitivity phenotype: a pilot fMRI study. Addiction Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addicn.2024.100156
    DOI

  • Kohen, C.B., Spychala, K.M., Davis-Stober, C.P., Piasecki, T.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (in press). Retrospective self-reports of sensitivity to the effects of alcohol: Trait-like stability and concomitant changes with alcohol involvement. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000967
    DOI

    • 2024

  • 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.
    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 & Intergroup relations, 26(8), 1750-1773 Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221131029
    PDF | DOI

  • 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.
    PDF

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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 DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

    • 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.
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

    • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

    • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • Bartholow, B.D. (2020). For Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology: Monica Fabiani and Gabriele Gratton. Psychophysiology, e13536. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13536
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

    • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

    • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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.

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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 PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000334
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

    • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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　
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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.
    PDF

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

    • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

  • 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
    PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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.

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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.

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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.

    • 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).

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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.
      PDF

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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.
      PDF

    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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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.

    • 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.
      PDF

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI
      >> *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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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).
      PDF

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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.
      PDF

    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.

    • 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
      PDF | DOI

    • 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
      PDF | DOI