Ph.D. The University of Minnesota
M.A. The University of Iowa
B.A., summa cum laude Wartburg College
structural equation modeling,
longitudinal methodology (e.g. state-trait, growth mixture models)
substance abuse research, especially in young adult populations
adult intellectual development
Philosophy of Science: For the past four years I have helped to organize the Transcontinental Karl Popper Conference, which takes place as a two-day, 24 hour zoom meeting.Here are the links to the conference over the years
- 2021 Transcontinental Karl Popper Conference.
- 2022 Transcontinental Karl Popper Conference.
- 2023 Transcontinental Karl Popper Conference.
- 2024 Transcontinental Karl Popper Conference.
- 2025 Transcontinental Karl Popper Conference (currently being planned Jan 11-12, 2025)
For those interested in the SAS examples I use in the Kutner's Applied Linear Statistical Models, I'm making them available at: http://sites.google.com/site/generallinearmodeling/
as I have time to make corrections and updates.
Structural Equation Modeling. The book I have pulled together is located here
Examples that fo code in Mplus, Onyx, and lavaan for the book can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/semexamples/
I regularly teach classes in Latent Variable Modeling (Psych 9720), and Advanced Latent Variable Models (Psych 9750).
I also teach undergraduate Research Methods (Psych 3010)
Phillip K. Wood (2023) Combined logistic and confined exponential growth models: Estimation using SEM software, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2023.2220918
Wood, P.K., Wiedermann, W., & Steinley, D. (2023) Equal precision measurement structural models, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 30(1), 32-39, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2022.2082971
Wood P. K. (2023). New Frontiers in Prevention Research Models: Commentary on the Special Issue. Prevention Science : The Official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 24(3), 517–524. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-023-01508-2
Watts, A. L., Makol, B. A., Palumbo, I. M., De Los Reyes, A., Olino, T. M., Latzman, R. D., DeYoung, C. G., Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (2022). How Robust Is the p Factor? Using Multitrait-Multimethod Modeling to Inform the Meaning of General Factors of Youth Psychopathology. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(4), 640–661. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211055170
Wood, P. K., Steinley, D., & Jackson, K. M. (2015). Right-sizing statistical models for longitudinal data. Psychological methods, 20(4), 470–488. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000037
Pagliaccio, D., Barch, D. M., Bogdan, R., Wood, P. K., Lynskey, M. T., Heath, A. C., & Agrawal, A. (2015). Shared Predisposition in the Association Between Cannabis Use and Subcortical Brain Structure. JAMA psychiatry, 72(10), 994–1001. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.1054
Schiederer, E. M., Wood, P. K., & Trull, T. J. (2015). The comorbidity of borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: revisiting the prevalence and associations in a general population sample. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2 (1), 1-16
Wang, T., Wood, P.K., & Heath, A. C. (2015) Can psychometric measurement models inform behavior genetic models?: A Bayesian model comparison approach. in Dependent data in social sciences research: Forms, issues, and methods of analysis, (M. Stemmler, A. von Eye & W. Wiedermann (Eds.) (pp. 231-259). Springer: Heidelberg
Wood, P. K., Steinley, D., and Jackson, K. M. (in press). Right-Sizing Statistical Models for Longitudinal Data. Psychological Methods. Lavaan, Amos, Mplus, and Ωnyx computer program examples can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/rightsizinglongitudinalmodels/longitudinal...
Wood, P. K. (2016). Unmeasured Reciprocal Interactions: Specification and Fit Using Structural Equation Models. Statistics and Causality (W. Wiedermann & A von Eye (Eds.) pp. 277-308. Springer: Heidelberg.
Jackson, K. M., Bucholz, K., Wood, P.K., Steinley, D., & Grant, J. D., & Sher, K. J. (2013). Towards the characterization and validation of alcohol use disorder subtypes: Integrating consumption and symptom data. Psychological Medicine, 44(1), 143-159 doi: 10.1017/S0033291713000573
Wood, P. K. (2013). The landscape of inductive developmental systems. in Handbook of Developmental Systems Theory and Methodology (P.C.M. Molenaar, R. M. Lerner, K. M. Newell, Eds.) pp. 465-484.
Wood, P. K., & Jackson, K. M. (2013). Escaping the snare of chronological growth and launching a free curve alternative: General deviance as latent growth model. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 739-754.
Piasecki, T. M., Cooper, M. L., Wood, P. K., Sher, K. J., Shiffman, S., & Heath, A. C. (2013). Dispositional drinking motives: Associations with appraised alcohol effects and alcohol consumption in an ecological momentary assessment investigation. Psychological Assessment. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0035153
Tomko, R. L., Trull, T. J., Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (2013). Characteristics of borderline personality disorder in a community sample: Comorbidity, treatment utilization, and general functioning. Journal of Personality Disorders.
Wood, P. K. (in press). Review of Structural Equation Modeling: A Bayesian Approach by Sik-Yum Lee, Journal of Classification.
Bartholow, B. D., Henry, E. A., Lust, S. A., Saults, J. S., & Wood, P. K. (2012). Alcohol effects on performance monitoring and adjustment: Affect modulation and impairment of evaluative cognitive control. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 173-186.
Littlefield, A. K., Verges, A., Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (2012). Transactional models between personality and alcohol involvement: A further examination. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 778-783. PMID: 22288908
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, 925-932.
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.
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. PMID: 21762183
Talley, A. E., Sher, K. J., Steinley, D., Wood, P. K., & Littlefield, A. K. (2012). Patterns of alcohol use and consequences among empirically derived sexual minority subgroups. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73, 290-302. PMID: 22333337
Tomko, R. L., Trull, T. J., Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (2013). Characteristics of borderline personality disorder in a community sample: Comorbidity, treatment utilization, and general functioning. Journal of Personality Disorders.
Tomko, R. L., Brown, W. C., Tragesser, S. L., Wood, P. K., Mehl, M. R., & Trull, T. J. (2012). Social context of anger in borderline personality disorder and depressive disorders: Findings from a naturalistic observation study. Journal of Personality Disorders, 26, 1-15.
Trull, T. J., Verges, A., Wood, P. K., Jahng, S., & 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. PMID: 22506626
Jahng, S., Trull, T. J., Wood, P. K., Tragesser, S. L., Tomko, R., Grant, J. D., Bucholz, K. K., & Sher, K. J. (2011). Distinguishing general and specific personality disorder features and implications for substance dependence comorbidity. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 656-669.
Jahng, S., Solhan, M. B., Tomko, R., Wood, P. K., Piasecki, T. A., & Trull, T. J. (2011). Affect and alcohol use: An EMA study of Outpatients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 572-584.
Piasecki., T. M., Wood, P. K., Shiffman, S. Sher, K. J., & Heath, A. C. (in press). Responses to alcohol and cigarette use during ecologically assessed drinking episodes. Psychopharmacology. PMID: 22538731
Vergés, A., Jackson, K. M., Bucholz, K. K., Grant, J. D., Trull, T. J., & Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (2012). Deconstructing the age-prevalence curve of alcohol dependence: Why 'maturing out' is only a small piece of the puzzle. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 511-523. PMID: 22060948
Wood, P. K. (2012). Dynamic factor models for longitudinally intensive data: Description and estimation via parallel factor models of Cholesky decomposition. in the Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling, Rick Hoyle (Ed.) (pp. 571-584). New York: Guilford.
Jahng, S., Trull, T. J., Wood, P. K., Tragesser, S. L., Tomko, R., Grant, J. D., Bucholz, K. K., & Sher, K. J. (2011). Distinguishing general and specific personality disorder features and implications for substance dependence comorbidity. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 656-669.
Jahng, S., Solhan, M. B., Tomko, R., Wood, P. K., Piasecki, T. A., & Trull, T. J. (2011). Affect and alcohol use: An EMA study of Outpatients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 572-584.
Piasecki, T. M., Jahng1, 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. PMID: 21443289
Cho, S.B., Wood, P.K. & Heath, A. (2009). Decomposing group differences of latent means of ordered categorical variables with the genetic factor model. Behavior Genetics, 39, 101-122.
Geary, D. C., Bailey, D. H., Littlefield, A., Wood, P., Hoard, M. K., & Nugent, L. (2009). First-grade predictors of mathematical learning disability: A latent class trajectory analysis. Cognitive Development, 24, 411-429.
Jacob, T., Koenig, L. B., Howell, D. N., Wood, P. K., & Haber, j. R. (2009). Drinking trajectories from adolescence to the fifties among alcohol-dependent men. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70, 859-869.
Littlefield, A., 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.
Martinez, J.A., Sher, K.J., Krull, J.L. & Wood, P.K. (2009). Blue-collar scholars?: Mediators and moderators of university attrition in first-generation college students. Journal of College Student Development, 50, 87-103.
Park, A., Sher, K. J., Krull, J. L., & Wood, P. K. (2009). Dual mechanisms underlying accentuation of risky drinking via fraternity/sorority affiliation: The role of personality, peer norms, and alcohol availability. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 118, 241-245.
Piasecki, T. M., Slutske, W. S., Wood, P. K. & Hunt-Carter, E. E. (In press) Frequency and correlates of diary-measured hangover-like experiences in a college sample. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Solhan, M. B., Trull, J., Jahng, S., & Wood, P. K. (2009). Clinical assessment of affective instability: Comparing EMA indices, quesitonnaire reports, and retrospective recall. Psychological Assessment, 21, 425-436.
Trull, T. J., Jahng, S., Tomko, R., Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (in press). Revised NESARC personality disorder diagnoses: gender, prevalence, and comorbidity with substance dependence disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders.
Jahng, S., Wood, P.K. & Trull, T.J. (2008) Analysis of affective instability in ecological momentary assessment: indices using successive difference and group comparison via multilevel modeling. Psychological Methods, 13, 354-375.
Martinez, J., Sher, K. & Wood, P.K. (2008) Is heavy drinking really associated with attrition from college?: The alcohol-attrition paradox. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 450-456.
Trull, T. J., Solhan, M. B., Tragesser, S. L., Jahng, S., Wood, P. K., Piasecki, T. M., & Watson, D. (2008). Affective instability: Measuring a core feature of borderline personality disorder with ecological momentary assessment. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 647-661.
Wood, P.K. (2008). Review of Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research. The American Statistician, 62, 2-3.
Kuo, P.-H., Wood, P. K., Morley, K. I., Madden, P. Martin, N. G., & Heath, A. C. (2007). Cohort trends in prevalence and spousal concordance for smoking. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 88, 122-129.
Wood, P.K., Sher, K. J., & Rutledge, P. (July, 2007). College student alcohol consumption, day of the week, and class schedule. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 31, 1195-1207
Grekin, E.R., Sher, K.J. & Wood, P.K. (2006). Personality and substance dependence symptoms: Modeling substance-specific traits. Psychology of Addictive Behavior, 20, 415-424.
Wood, P. K. (2004). The search for the syndrome that was there or the variable that wasn’t: Configural frequency analysis, conditional independence, and tetrad approaches for categorical data. Understanding Statistics, 3, 65-83.
Wood, P. K., Sher, K. J. & Barthelow (2002). Alcohol use disorders and cognitive abilities in young adulthood: A prospective study, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70,897-907.
Cooper, M.L., Wood, P.K., Orcutt, H.K, & Albino, A.W. (2003). Personality and the generalized predisposition to risk-taking during adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 390-410.