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6092
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3311

Overview

Bruce D. Bartholow is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States and has focused research efforts primarily in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Their body of work reflects a blend of experimental and cognitive psychology alongside cellular and molecular neuroscience, with particular attention to epidemiology and applied psychology.

The research topics covered by Bartholow include behavioral health and interventions, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, neural and behavioral psychology studies, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, memory and neural mechanisms, mental health research, and alcohol consumption and health effects.

Several recent papers highlight their ongoing contributions to psychological and neuroscientific literature. These include:

  • "The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data," published in 2023 in Psychological Bulletin
  • "Using multilevel models for the analysis of event-related potentials," published in 2021 in International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • "Neurobiology and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: progress toward ontogenetically informed and clinically useful nosology," published in 2020 in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
  • "Alcohol sensitivity in women after undergoing bariatric surgery: a cross-sectional study," published in 2020 in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
  • "Psychological Processes Underlying Effects of Alcohol Marketing on Youth Drinking," published in 2020 in Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs Supplement

Bartholow has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, indicating a network of research partnerships. Key collaborators include:

  • Roberto U. Cofresí
  • Thomas M. Piasecki
  • Hannah I. Volpert-Esmond
  • Christopher J. Patrick
  • Casey B. Kohen

Their work has been disseminated through several prominent publication venues. These include:

  • Addiction
  • Psychophysiology
  • Addiction Biology
  • Addiction Neuroscience
  • Psychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • Automatic and controlled processes and the development of addictive behaviors in adolescents: a review and a model.

    Reinout W. Wiers;Bruce D. Bartholow;Esther van den Wildenberg;Carolien Thush

  • Personality and substance use disorders: A prospective study.

    Kenneth J. Sher;Bruce D. Bartholow;Mark D. Wood

  • Chronic violent video game exposure and desensitization to violence: Behavioral and event-related brain potential data.

    Bruce D. Bartholow;Brad J. Bushman;Brad J. Bushman;Marc A. Sestir

  • Emotional foundations of cognitive control

    Michael Inzlicht;Bruce D. Bartholow;Jacob B. Hirsh

  • Correlates and Consequences of Exposure to Video Game Violence: Hostile Personality, Empathy, and Aggressive Behavior

    Bruce D. Bartholow;Marc A. Sestir;Edward B. Davis

  • Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior: Potential sex differences.

    Bruce D. Bartholow;Craig A. Anderson

  • Strategic control and medial frontal negativity: Beyond errors and response conflict.

    Bruce D. Bartholow;Melanie A. Pearson;Cheryl L. Dickter;Kenneth J. Sher

  • Does the Gun Pull the Trigger? Automatic Priming Effects of Weapon Pictures and Weapon Names

    Craig A. Anderson;Arlin James Benjamin;Bruce D. Bartholow

  • This is your brain on violent video games: Neural desensitization to violence predicts increased aggression following violent video game exposure

    Christopher R. Engelhardt;Bruce D. Bartholow;Geoffrey T. Kerr;Brad J. Bushman;Brad J. Bushman

  • Personality and alcoholism: Issues, methods, and etiological processes.

    Kenneth J. Sher;Timothy J. Trull;Bruce D. Bartholow;Angela Vieth

  • The neural correlates of race

    Tiffany A. Ito;Bruce D. Bartholow

  • Short- and long-term effects of fraternity and sorority membership on heavy drinking: a social norms perspective.

    Kenneth J. Sher;Bruce D. Bartholow;Shivani Nanda

  • A Psychophysiological Examination of Cognitive Processing of and Affective Responses to Social Expectancy Violations

    Bruce D. Bartholow;Monica Fabiani;Gabriele Gratton;B. Ann Bettencourt

  • Stereotype activation and control of race bias: cognitive control of inhibition and its impairment by alcohol.

    Bruce D. Bartholow;Cheryl L. Dickter;Marc A. Sestir

  • Individual differences in motives, preferences, and pathology in video games: the gaming attitudes, motives, and experiences scales (GAMES)

    Joseph Hilgard;Christopher R. Engelhardt;Bruce D. Bartholow

  • Alcohol effects on performance monitoring and adjustment: affect modulation and impairment of evaluative cognitive control.

    Bruce D. Bartholow;Erika A. Henry;Sarah A. Lust;J. Scott Saults

  • Toward a comprehensive understanding of executive cognitive function in implicit racial bias.

    Tiffany A. Ito;Naomi P. Friedman;Bruce D. Bartholow;Joshua Correll

  • Racial ingroup and outgroup attention biases revealed by event-related brain potentials

    Cheryl L. Dickter;Bruce D. Bartholow

  • Tracking the dynamics of the social brain: ERP approaches for social cognitive and affective neuroscience

    David M. Amodio;Bruce D. Bartholow;Tiffany A. Ito

  • Interactive effects of life experience and situational cues on aggression: The weapons priming effect in hunters and nonhunters

    Bruce D. Bartholow;Craig A. Anderson;Nicholas L. Carnagey;Arlin J. Benjamin

  • Screen Violence and Youth Behavior

    Craig A. Anderson;Brad J. Bushman;Brad J. Bushman;Bruce D. Bartholow;Joanne Cantor

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth J. Sher
Kenneth J. Sher University of Missouri
J. Scott Saults
J. Scott Saults University of Missouri
Thomas M. Piasecki
Thomas M. Piasecki University of Wisconsin–Madison
Craig A. Anderson
Craig A. Anderson Iowa State University
Brad J. Bushman
Brad J. Bushman The Ohio State University
Denis M. McCarthy
Denis M. McCarthy University of Missouri
Phillip K. Wood
Phillip K. Wood University of Missouri
Tiffany A. Ito
Tiffany A. Ito University of Colorado Boulder
Kathleen K. Bucholz
Kathleen K. Bucholz Washington University in St. Louis
Akira Miyake
Akira Miyake University of Colorado Boulder

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