University at Buffalo (UB)
Craig Colder
PhD
Research Interests
Individual, family, and community influences on child and adolescent aggression and substance abuse
Education
- PhD, Arizona State University
Current Research
My research interests are in identifying multiple levels of influence that contribute to the development of adolescent substance use. These levels include individual differences (e.g., temperament and personality), family influences, and community factors.
Selected Publications
- Zaso, M. J., Read, J. P., & Colder, C. R. (in press). Social influences on alcohol outcome expectancy development from childhood to young adulthood: A narrative review. Current Addiction Reports.
- Paige, K. J., Shaw, R., & Colder, C. R. (2023). The role of effortful control in mitigating negative consequences associated with emerging adult heavy drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 47, 512-526. [PMID: 36811151]
- Ramer, N. E., Fox, S. E., Meisel, S. N., Kiss, N., Page, J. L., Hopwood, C. J., & Colder, C. R. (2023) Variance Decomposition of the Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics (CAID) system: Assessing sources of influence and reliability of observations of parent-teen interactions. PLoS ONE 18(10): e0292304.
- Meisel S. N., Colder C. R., & Hopwood C. J. (2022). Assessing Parent-Adolescent Substance Use Discussions Using the Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics. Journal of Personality Assessment, 104, 800-812. [PMID: 35025716].
- Paige, K. J., Meisel, S. N., & Colder, C. R. (2021). An examination of reciprocal associations between substance use and effortful control across adolescence using a bifactor model of externalizing symptoms. Development and Psychopathology, 33, 1507-1519. [PMID: 32662367]
- Ramer, N. E, Paige, K. J., & Colder, C. R. (2021). Alcohol-Specific communication and emerging adult offspring’s perceived parental approval and drinking in the context of parent alcohol expectancies. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45, 251-263. [ PMID: 33232523]
- Scalco, M. D., Colder, C. R., , Read, J. P., Lengua, L. J., Wieczorek, W. F., & Hawk, L. W. (2021). Testing alternative cascades from internalizing and externalizing symptoms to adolescent alcohol use and alcohol use disorder through co-occurring symptoms and peers. Development and Psychopathology, 33, 29-46. [PMID: 32308172]