Thomas M. Piasecki

Professor 4A McAlester Hall (573) 882-8877 piaseckit@missouri.edu Lab: Drug Motivation Laboratory

My main research interests center on motivational processes related to tobacco and alcohol use (e.g., craving, withdrawal, subjective reward, negative reinforcement, hangover). Much of my current research uses electronic diary methods to investigate the relations among contextual features, subjective processes, and drug use use in users’ natural environments. I am also interested in the measurement of drug-related individual differences, including tobacco dependence, motives for tobacco and alcohol use, and hangover. In collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, I investigate smoking cessation treatments and the process of relapse to smoking.

I am affiliated with the department's Alcohol Studies Program

I often collaborate with investigators from the following institutions:

Midwest Alcoholism Research Center
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin

Ph.D. 1999, University of Wisconsin

Dierker, L., Selya, A., Piasecki, T., Rose, J., & Mermelstein, R. (2013, Epub). Alcohol problems as a signal for sensitivity to nicotine dependence and future smoking. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Abstract

Arndt, J., Vail, K.E., Cox, C.R., Goldenberg, J.L., Piasecki, T.M. & Gibbons, F.X. (2013). The interactive effects of mortality reminders and tobacco craving on smoking topography. Health Psychology, 32, 525-532. Abstract

Slutske, W.S., Cho, S.B., Piasecki, T.M., & Martin, N.G. (2013). Genetic overlap between personality and risk for disordered gambling: Evidence from a national community-based Australian twin study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122, 250-255. Abstract

Jackson, K. M., Rohsenow, D. J., Piasecki, T. M., Howland, J., & Richardson, A. E. (2013). Tobacco smoking’s role in hangover symptoms among university students. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 74, 41-49. Abstract

Piasecki, T.M., Alley, K.J., Slutske, W.S., Wood, P.K., Sher, K.J. Shiffman, S., & Heath, A.C. (2012). Low sensitivity to alcohol: Relations with hangover occurrence and susceptibility in an Ecological Momentary Assessment investigation. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73, 925-32. Abstract

Cook, J.W., Fucito, L.M., Piasecki, T.M., Piper, M.E., Schlam, T.R., Berg, K.M. & Baker, T.B. (2012). Relations of alcohol consumption with smoking cessation milestones and tobacco dependence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 80, 1075-1085. Abstract

Piasecki, T.M., Wood, P.K., Shiffman, S., Sher, K.J. & Heath, A.C. (2012). Responses to alcohol and cigarette use during ecologically assessed drinking episodes. Psychopharmacology, 223, 331-344. Abstract

Robertson, B.M., Piasecki, T.M., Slutske, W.S., Wood, P.K., Sher, K.J., Shiffman, S. & Heath, A.C. (2012). Validity of the Hangover Symptoms Scale: Evidence from an electronic diary study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 36, 171-177. Abstract

Piasecki, T.M., Jahng, S., Wood. P.K., Robertson, B.M., Epler, A.J., Cronk, N.J., Rohrbaugh, J.W., Heath, A.C., Shiffman, S. & Sher, K.J. (2011). The subjective effects of alcohol-tobacco co-use: An ecological momentary assessment investigation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120,557-571. Abstract

Jahng, S., Solhan, M., Tomko, R., Wood, P.K., Piasecki, T.M., & Trull, T.J. (2011). Affect and alcohol use: An EMA study of outpatients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 572-584. Abstract

Kristjannson, S., Pergadia, M.L., Agrawal, A., Lessov-Schlaggar, C.N., McCarthy, D.M., Piasecki, T.M., Duncan, A.E., Bucholz, K.K., Madden, P.A., Sher, K.J. & Heath, A.C. (2011). Smoking outcome expectancies in young adult female smokers: Individual differences and associations with nicotine dependence in a genetically-informative sample. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 116, 37-44. Abstract

Piasecki, T.M., Piper, M.E., Baker, T.B. & Hunt-Carter, E.E. (2011). WISDM primary and secondary dependence motives: Associations with self-monitored motives for smoking in two college samples. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 114, 207-216. Abstract

Piasecki, T.M., Piper, M.E., & Baker, T.B. (2010). Tobacco dependence: Insights from investigations of self-reported motives. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 395-401. Abstract

Piasecki, T.M., Piper, M.E. & Baker, T.B. (2010). Refining the tobacco dependence phenotype using the Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives. II. Evidence from a laboratory self-administration assay. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 513-523. Abstract

Slutske, W.S., Piasecki, T.M., Blaszczynski, A. & Martin, N.G. (2010). Pathological gambling recovery in the absence of abstinence. Addiction, 105 , 2169-2175. Abstract

McCarthy, D.E., Piasecki, T.M., Jorenby, D.E., Lawrence, D.L., Shiffman, S. & Baker, T.B. (2010). A multi-level analysis of non-significant counseling effects in a randomized smoking cessation trial. Addiction, 105, 2195-2208. Abstract

Cronk, N.J. & Piasecki, T.M.(2010). Contextual and subjective antecedents of smoking in a college student sample. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 12, 997-1004. Abstract

Piasecki, T.M., Robertson, B.M. & Epler, A.J. (2010). Hangover and alcohol use disorders: Existing evidence and potential mechanisms. Current Drug Abuse Reviews, 3, 92-102. Abstract

Verster, J.C., Stephens, R., Penning, R., Rohsenow, D., McGeary, J., Levy, D., McKinney, A., Finnigan, F., Piasecki, T.M., Adan, A., Batty, G.D., Fliervoet, L.A.L., Heffernan, T., Howland, J., Kim, D., Kruisselbrink, L.D., Ling, J., McGregor, N., Murphy, R.J.L, van Nuland, M., Oudelaar, A.M., Parkes, A., Prat, G., Reed, N., Slutske, W.S, Smith, G..& Young, M., on behalf of the Alcohol Hangover Research Group. (2010). The Alcohol Hangover Research Group consensus statement on best practice in alcohol hangover research. Current Drug Abuse Reviews, 3, 116-126. Abstract

Slutske, W.S., Piasecki, T.M., Ellingson, J.M. & Martin, N.G. (2010). The family history method in disordered gambling research: A comparison of reports obtained from discordant twin pairs. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 13, 340-346. Abstract

Piasecki, T.M., Slutske, W.S., Wood, P.K., & Hunt-Carter, E.E. (2010). Frequency and correlates of diary-measured hangoverlike experiences in a college sample. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 24, 163-169. Abstract

Epler, A.J., Sher, K.J. & Piasecki, T.M.(2009). Reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking: A developmental perspective. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23, 428-442. Abstract