Doctoral Student, Clinical Psychology 105 Psychology Building 573-884-8544 akl9af@mail.missouri.edu

Broadly, my research interests include developmental changes in alcohol involvement and how these changes relate to other biological and psychosocial variables of interest, including personality development, changes in drinking motives, the acquisition of adult roles, and how the development and co-development of these constructs relate to genetic and other environmental factors.

In Press

Littlefield, A., Sher, K. J., & Steinley, D. (in press). Developmental Trajectories of Impulsivity and their Association with Alcohol Use and Related Outcomes during Emerging and Young Adulthood I. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Talley, A. E., Sher, K. J., & Littlefield, A. K. (in press). Sexual minority status and substance use outcomes in emerging adulthood. Addiction.

Sher, J.K., Martinez, J. A., & Littlefield, A.K. (In Press). Alcohol use and alcohol use disorders. To Appear In D. H. Barlow (Ed.), Clinical handbook of psychological disorders (5th Ed.). New York: Guilford Press.

Sher, K. J., Talley, A. E., Littlefield, A. K., & Martinez, J. A. (in press). Alcohol use and alcohol use disorders. In H. Friedman (Ed.), Handbook of Health Psychology. New York: Oxford.

2010

Littlefield, A.K., Sher, K.J., & Wood, P.K. (2010). Do changes in drinking motives mediate the relation between personality change and the “maturing out” of alcohol problems? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 93-105.

2009

Geary, D. C., Bailey, D. H., Littlefield, A. K., Wood, P. K., Hoard, M. K., & Nugent, L. (2009). First-grade predictors of mathematical learning disability: A latent class trajectory analysis. Cognitive Development, 4, 411-429.

Littlefield, A.K., Sher, K.J., & Wood, P.K. (2009). Is “maturing out” of problematic alcohol involvement related to personality change? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 360-374.

Agrawal, A., Grant, J., Littlefield, A.K., et al. (2009). Developing a quantitative measure of alcohol consumption for genomic studies on prospective cohorts. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70, 157-168.

Littlefield, A.K. & Sher, K.J. (2009). Alcohol use disorders in young adulthood. In J. E. Grant and M. N. Potenza (Eds.), Young Adult Mental Health., New York: Oxford University Press.

2008

Sher, K. J., & Littlefield, A. K. (2008). Codependency. In Pamela Korsmeyer & Henry Kranzler (Eds), Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior, 3rd ed., Vol. 3, pp. 407-413. New York: Macmillan
Reference.

Sher, K. J., & Littlefield, A. K. (2008). Risk factors for substance use, abuse, and dependence: Personality. In Pamela Korsmeyer & Henry Kranzler (Eds), Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior, 3rd ed., Vol. 3, pp. 407-413. New York: Macmillan Reference.