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Overview

Clayton Neighbors is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States and has a research profile that centers on psychology and medicine. Their contributions span several subfields including epidemiology, applied psychology, clinical psychology, general health professions, and social psychology.

The scientist's research addresses a range of topics primarily related to behavioral health, substance use, and mental health. Key areas of work include substance abuse treatment and outcomes, behavioral health and interventions, mental health research topics, cannabis and cannabinoid research, homelessness and social issues, suicide and self-harm studies, and smoking behavior and cessation.

Clayton Neighbors has published extensively in several journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • Journal of American College Health
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Some of their recent papers include the following:

  • "A Marijuana Consequences Checklist for Young Adults with Implications for Brief Motivational Intervention Research" (2020) published in Prevention Science
  • "Stressful life events and gambling: The roles of coping and impulsivity among college students" (2020) published in Addictive Behaviors
  • "Injunctive and descriptive normative feedback for college drinking prevention: Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?" (2022) published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • "Flow mediates the relationship between problematic smartphone use and satisfaction with life among college students" (2021) published in Journal of American College Health
  • "Cannabis Outcome Expectancies, Cannabis Use Motives, and Cannabis Use among a Small Sample of Frequent Using Adults" (2021) published in Cannabis

Clayton Neighbors frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors. The list of frequent co-authors includes:

  • Kristen P. Lindgren
  • Lindsey M. Rodriguez
  • Angelo M. DiBello
  • Mary M Tomkins
  • Chelsie M. Young

Best Publications

  • Are social norms the best predictor of outcomes among heavy-drinking college students?

    Clayton Neighbors;Christine M. Lee;Melissa A. Lewis;Nicole Fossos

  • Targeting Misperceptions of Descriptive Drinking Norms: Efficacy of a Computer-Delivered Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention

    Clayton Neighbors;Mary E. Larimer;Melissa A. Lewis

  • Interventions to reduce harm associated with adolescent substance use

    John W. Toumbourou;Timothy R. Stockwell;Timothy R. Stockwell;Clayton Neighbors;G. A. Marlatt

  • Difficulties regulating emotions: Do binge eaters have fewer strategies to modulate and tolerate negative affect?

    Ursula Whiteside;Eunice Chen;Clayton Neighbors;Dorian Hunter

  • Social norms approaches using descriptive drinking norms education: a review of the research on personalized normative feedback.

    Melissa A. Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • Gender-specific misperceptions of college student drinking norms.

    Melissa Ardelle Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • Feedback interventions for college alcohol misuse: What, why and for whom?

    Scott T. Walters;Clayton Neighbors

  • A tutorial on count regression and zero-altered count models for longitudinal substance use data

    David C. Atkins;Scott A. Baldwin;Cheng Zheng;Robert J. Gallop

  • Marijuana motives: young adults' reasons for using marijuana.

    Christine M. Lee;Clayton Neighbors;Briana A. Woods

  • Exploring college student gambling motivation.

    Clayton Neighbors;Ty W. Lostutter;Jessica M. Cronce;Mary E. Larimer

  • Normative misperceptions and temporal precedence of perceived norms and drinking

    Clayton Neighbors;Amanda J Dillard;Melissa A Lewis;Rochelle L Bergstrom

  • Personalized mailed feedback for college drinking prevention: a randomized clinical trial.

    Mary E. Larimer;Christine M. Lee;Jason R. Kilmer;Patricia M. Fabiano

  • Appearance-Related Social Comparisons: The Role of Contingent Self-Esteem and Self-Perceptions of Attractiveness:

    Heather Patrick;Clayton Neighbors;C. Raymond Knee

  • The relative impact of injunctive norms on college student drinking: the role of reference group.

    Clayton Neighbors;Roisin M. O'Connor;Melissa A. Lewis;Neharika Chawla

  • Normative misperception and the impact of descriptive and injunctive norms on college student gambling.

    Mary E. Larimer;Clayton Neighbors

  • Body Image Concerns and Contingent Self-Esteem in Male and Female College Students.

    Joel R. Grossbard;Christine M. Lee;Clayton Neighbors;Mary E. Larimer

  • Group Identification as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Perceived Social Norms and Alcohol Consumption

    Clayton Neighbors;Joseph W. LaBrie;Justin F. Hummer;Melissa A. Lewis

  • Optimizing personalized normative feedback: the use of gender-specific referents.

    Melissa Ardelle Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • Being Controlled by Normative Influences: Self-Determination as a Moderator of a Normative Feedback Alcohol Intervention

    Clayton Neighbors;Melissa Ardelle Lewis;Rochelle L. Bergstrom;Mary E. Larimer

  • Effectiveness of social norms media marketing in reducing drinking and driving: a statewide campaign.

    H. Wesley Perkins;Jeffrey W. Linkenbach;Melissa A. Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • The relationship among alcohol use, related problems, and symptoms of psychological distress: Gender as a moderator in a college sample

    Irene Markman Geisner;Mary E Larimer;Clayton Neighbors

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa A. Lewis
Melissa A. Lewis University of North Texas Health Science Center
Christine M. Lee
Christine M. Lee University of Washington
Mary E. Larimer
Mary E. Larimer University of Washington
Michael J. Zvolensky
Michael J. Zvolensky University of Houston
Eric R. Pedersen
Eric R. Pedersen University of Southern California
Debra Kaysen
Debra Kaysen Stanford University
Joseph W. LaBrie
Joseph W. LaBrie Loyola Marymount University
C. Raymond Knee
C. Raymond Knee University of Houston
Roger A. Roffman
Roger A. Roffman University of Washington
David C. Atkins
David C. Atkins University of Washington

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