Research Interests:
Substantively, my research interests are concentrated on understanding individual differences in emotion regulation as they relate to vulnerability for maladaptive behaviors. Methodologically, I am interested in integrating a wide range of techniques and technologies to explore this issue. To this end, I have completed research that explored the influence of impulsivity on everyday behaviors (e.g. smoking, risky sexual practices) and on criminal conduct (e.g. illicit drug use, driving under the influence, and criminal violence). Each of these studies employed either survey or neuroimaging techniques. My current research attempts to provide a more integrated methodological approach to understanding individual differences across more diverse cognitive and emotional domains, again, as they affect the self-regulation of behavior.
Publications:
Baskin-Sommers, A.R, Zeier, J.D, & Newman, J.P (2009). Self-Reported Attentional Control Differentiates the Major Factors of Psychopathy. Personality and Individual Differences, in press.
Sommers, I., White, T., & Baskin-Sommers, A. (2008). The Neurobiology of Addiction.
Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
White, T.L., Baskin-Sommers, A. Cohen, R.A., Sweet, L.H. (2007, June 14). Age and brain responses to reward and d-amphetamine in healthy volunteers using a novel impulsivity/risk task (BART). NeuroImage, 36 (Supplement 1): S107.
Baskin-Sommers, A. & Sommers, I. (2006). The co-occurrence of substance use and high risk behaviors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 38 (5), 609-11.
Graham, A., Papandonatos, G., Bock, B., Cobb, N., Baskin-Sommers, A., Niaura, R., & Abrams, D.B. (2006). Internet- versus telephone-administered questionnaires in a randomized trial of smoking cessation. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 8, S49-S57.
Baskin-Sommers, A. & Sommers, I. (2006). Methamphetamine use and violence among young adults. Journal of Criminal Justice, 34, 661-674.
