Alvaro Vergés

146 Psychology Building (573) 884-1485 avhz6@mail.missouri.edu

In Press

Trull, T. J., Vergés, A., Jahng, S., Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (in press). The structure of DSM-IV-TR personality disorder symptoms in a large national sample. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment.

Littlefield, A. K., Vergés, A., Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (in press). Transactional models between personality and alcohol involvement: A further examination. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Vergés, A. Jackson, K. M., Bucholz, K. K., Grant, J. D., Trull, T. J., Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (in press). Deconstructing the age-prevalence curve of alcohol dependence: Why “maturing out” is only a small piece of the puzzle. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

2012

Grant, J. D., Vergés, A., Jackson, K. M., Trull, T. J., Sher, K. J., & Bucholz, K. K. (2012). Age and ethnic differences in the onset, persistence and recurrence of alcohol use disorder. Addiction, 107, 756-765.

Sher, K. J., Winograd, R., & Vergés, A. (2012). Alcohol: Psychosocial effects. In V. S. Ramachandran (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

Vergés, A. & Sher, K. J. (2012). Personality and contextual factors in college students’ drinking. In H. R. White and D. Rabiner (Eds.), College drinking and drug use, pp. 140-158. New York: Guilford.

2011

Vergés, A., Littlefield, A. K., & Sher, J. K. (2011). Did lifetime rates of alcohol use disorders increase by 67% in ten years? A comparison of NLAES and NESARC. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 868-877.

Vergés, A. & Sher, K. J. (2011). Alcohol use and the transition to college. The Addictions Newsletter, 18, 15-16.

Littlefield, A. K., Vergés, A., McCarthy, D. M., & Sher, J. K. (2011). Interactions between self-reported alcohol outcome expectancies and cognitive functioning in the prediction of alcohol use and associated problems: A further examination. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25, 542-546.

Martin, C. S., Steinley, D. L, Vergés, A., & Sher, K. J. (2011). Letter to the Editor: The proposed 2/11 symptom algorithm for DSM-5 substance use disorders is too lenient. Psychological Medicine, 41, 2008-2010.

2010

Vergés, A. (2010). Integrating contextual issues in ethical decision making. Ethics and Behavior, 20, 497-507.

Vergés, A., Steinley, D., Trull, T. J., & Sher, K. J. (2010). It's the algorithm! Why differential rates of chronicity and comorbidity are not evidence for the validity of the abuse-dependence distinction. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 650-661.

Littlefield, A. K., Vergés, A., & Sher, K. J. (2010). Three (or more) alcohol dependence symptoms but not clustered in the same 12 months: Diagnostic orphans from a longitudinal perspective. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 71, 864-869.