Craig Colder

PhD

Craig Colder.

Craig Colder

PhD

Craig Colder

PhD

SUNY Distinguished Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

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

  • Meisel, S. N., Ramer, N. E., Hopwood, C. J., & Colder, C. R. (2025). Development and initial validation of the Parenting Styles Circumplex Inventory (PSCI). Assessment, 32, 368-393. [PMID: 38664955].
  • Paige, K. J., Colder, C. R., Cope, L. M., Hardee, J. E., Heitzeg, M. M., Soules, M. E., & Weigard, A. S. (2024). Clarifying the longitudinal factor structure, temporal stability, and construct validity of go/no-go task-related neural activation across adolescence and young adulthood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 67, 101390. [PMID: 38759528].
  • Paige, K. J., Cope, L. M., Hardee, J. E., Heitzeg, M. M., Soules, M. E., Weigard, A. S., Colder, C. R. (2024). Leveraging bifactor modeling to test prospective direct and indirect effects of adolescent alcohol use and externalizing symptoms on the development of task-general executive functioning. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 1-22. [PMID: 39300841].
  • Ramer, N. E., Perhamus, G., & Colder, C. R. (2024). Reinforcement sensitivity theory and externalizing problems across early adolescence: Testing within-person reciprocal associations. Developmental Psychology, 60, 545-559.
  • Reynolds, A., Paige, K. J., Colder, C. R., Mushquash, C. J., Wendt, D. C., Burack, J. A., & O’Connor, R. M. (2024). Negative affect and drinking among Indigenous Youth: Disaggregating within-and between-person effects. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52, 865-876. [PMID: 38407776].
  • Zaso, M. J., Eiden, R. D., Leonard, K. E., Colder, C. R., & Livingston, J. A. (2024). Parent alcohol use and problems in children's alcohol-related learning and subsequent alcohol use. Substance Use & Misuse, 58, 1829-1838. [PMID: 37732503].
  • 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 CJ, & 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, e0292304.
  • Zaso, M. J., Read, J. P., & Colder, C. R. (2023). Social influences on alcohol outcome expectancy development from childhood to young adulthood: A narrative review. Current Addiction Reports, 10, 690-701.
  • 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].