Andrew Littlefield

Doctoral Candidate, 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.

Awards and Honors
2011 Graduate Student Award, Graduate Student Association
2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Award
2010 Mark H. Thelen Outstanding Clinical Graduate Student Award

Service to Scientific Community
Invited Ad Hoc Reviewer

Addiction
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
Current Drug Abuse Reviews
Development and Psychopathology
European Addiction Research
Frontiers in Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Personalized Medicine
Preventing Chronic Disease
Psychological Methods
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment

Reviewed Abstracts
APA Conference's Division 28, Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse

Current Funding
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Grants F31 AA019596
Title: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Personality, Drinking Motives, and Alcohol Involvement: A Developmental Perspective

Research Papers

Bailey, D. H., Littlefield, A., & Geary, D. C. (in press). The co-development of skill at and preference for use of retrieval-based processes for solving addition problems: Individual and sex differences from first to sixth grade. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Winograd, R.P., Littlefield, A.K., Martinez, J., & Sher, K.J. (in press). The drunken self: The Five-Factor model as an organizational framework for characterizing perceptions of one's own drunkeness. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Agrawal, A., Nelson, E.C., Littlefield, A.K., Bucholz, K.K., Degenhardt, L., Henders, A.K., Madden, P.A.F., Martin, N.G., Montgomery, G.W., Pergadia, M.L., Sher, K.J., Heath, A.C., & Lynskey, M.T. (in press). Cannabinoid receptor (CNR1) genotype moderates the effects of childhood physical abuse on anhedonia and depression. Archives of General Psychiatry.

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.

Talley, A.E., Sher, K.J., Steinley, D., Wood, P.K., & Littlefield, A.K. (in press). Patterns of alcohol use and consequences among empirically derived sexual minority subgroups. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Winograd, R.P., Littlefield, A.K., & Sher, K. J. (in press). Do people who “Mature Out” of drinking see themselves as more mature? Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Littlefield, A.K., & Sher, K.J. (2012). Smoking desistance and personality change in emerging and young adulthood. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntr219

Littlefield, A. K., Agrawal, A., Ellingson, J., Kristjansson, S., Madden, P. A. F., Bucholz, K. K., Slutske, W. S., Heath, A. C., & Sher, K. J. (2011). Does variance in drinking motives explain the genetic overlap between personality and alcohol use disorder symptoms? A twin study of young women. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 35, 2242-2250. PMID: 21790670

Vergés, A., Littlefield, A. K., & Sher, K. J. (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, 468-477. PMID: 21319922

Martens, M.P., Martin, J.L., Littlefield, A.K., Murphy, J.G., & Cimini, M.D. (2011). Changes in protective behavioral strategies and alcohol use among college students. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 118, 504-507. PMID: 21612879

Talley, A., Tomko, R., Littlefield, A.K., Sher, K.J., & Trull, T. (2011). The influence of general identity disturbance on reports of substance use disorders and related outcomes among sexual minority adults with a history of substance use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25, 530-541. PMID: 21480677

Littlefield, A.K., Vergés, A., McCarthy, D.M., & Sher, K. J. (2011). Interactions between explicit alcohol expectancies and cognitive functioning in the prediction of alcohol use and associated problems: A further examination. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25, 542-546. PMID: 21443299

Agrawal, A., Lynskey, M.T., Todorov, A.A., Schrage, A. J., Littlefield, A.K., et al. (2011). A candidate gene association study of alcohol consumption in young women. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 35, 550-558. PMID: 21143251

Kristjansson, S.D., Agrawal, A., Littlefield, A.K., et al. (2011). Drinking motives in female smokers: Factor structure, alcohol dependence, and genetic influences. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 35, 345-354. PMID: 21083669

Blonigen, D.M., Littlefield, A.K., Hicks, B., & Sher, K.J. (2010). Course of antisocial behavior during emerging adulthood: Developmental differences in personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 729-733. PMID: 21243066

Littlefield, A.K., & Sher, K.J. (2010). The Multiple, Distinct Ways that Personality Contributes to Alcohol Use Disorders. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 767-782. PMID: 21170162

Littlefield, A.K., Sher, K.J., & Vergés, A. (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 Drugs and Alcohol, 71, 864-869. PMID: 20946743

Talley, A.E., Sher, K.J., & Littlefield, A.K. (2010). Sexual minority status and substance use outcomes in emerging adulthood. Addiction,105,1235-1245. PMID: 20491728

Littlefield, A.K., Sher, K.J., & Wood, P.K. (2010). A personality-based description of maturing out of alcohol problems: Extension with a Five-Factor Model and robustness to modeling challenges. Addictive Behaviors, 35, 948-954. PMID: 20598445

Littlefield, A.K., Sher, K.J., & Steinley, D. (2010). Developmental trajectories of impulsivity and their association with alcohol use and related outcomes during emerging and young adulthood I. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 34, 1409-1416. PMID: 20528822

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. PMID: 20141246

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. PMID: 20046817

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. PMID: 19413410

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. PMID: 19261227

Book Chapters:
Littlefield, A.K., & Winograd, R.P. (In press). Maturing Out. In P. Miller (ed), Encyclopedia of Addictive Behaviors. Oxford: Elsevier.

Littlefield, A.K., & Sher, J.K. (in press). Personality and substance use disorders. To appear in K. J. Sher (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Substance Use Disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.

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

Sher, K. J., Martinez, J. A., & Littlefield, A. K. (2011). Alcohol use disorders. In D. H. Barlow (Ed.), Handbook of Clinical Psychology, pp. 405-445. New York: Oxford University Press.

Littlefield, A.K., & Sher, K. J. (2010). Alcohol use disorders in young adulthood. In J. E. Grant and M. N. Potenza (Eds.), Young Adult Mental Health, pp. 292-310. New York: Oxford University Press.

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.