Associate Professor 210 McAlester Hall 573-882-0426 mccarthydm@missouri.edu http://web.missouri.edu/~mccarthydm/ Lab: Alcohol Cognitions Lab

* Cognitive factors that influence alcohol use disorder, alcohol-related problems (e.g., drinking and driving), eating disorders, and other addictive behaviors.

* Genetic, personality, and environmental factors related to additive behavior, particularly how these factors influence alcohol-related learning.

* Expectancy-activation models, studying effects of the activation of alcohol-related concepts in memory.

Pedersen, S.L. & McCarthy, D.M. (in press). An examination of subjective response to alcohol in African Americans. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Pedersen, S.L. & McCarthy, D.M. (2008). Person-environment transactions in youth drinking and driving. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 340-348.

McCarthy, D.M., Lynch, A., & Pedersen, S.L. (2007). Driving after use of alcohol and marijuana in college students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21, 425-430.

McCarthy, D.M. & Thompsen, D.M. (2006). Implicit and explicit measures of alcohol and smoking cognitions. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20, 436-444.

McCarthy, D.M., Pedersen, S.L., Thompsen, D.M. & Leuty, M.E. (2006). Development of a measure of drinking and driving expectancies for youth. Psychological Assessment, 18, 155-164.