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Overview

Justin C. Strickland is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and psychology. Their research spans multiple domains within these areas, including epidemiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, applied psychology, and pharmacology.

The scientist's recent publications cover various aspects of behavioral health, substance use, and psychological constructs. Notable papers include:

  • Rejecting impulsivity as a psychological construct: A theoretical, empirical, and sociocultural argument. (2020, Psychological Review)
  • Changes in alcohol use during COVID-19 and associations with contextual and individual difference variables: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2021, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
  • Behavioral and psychosocial factors associated with COVID-19 skepticism in the United States. (2021, Current Psychology)
  • Sex differences in the acute effects of oral and vaporized cannabis among healthy adults. (2020, Addiction Biology)
  • An Assessment of the Rapid Decline of Trust in US Sources of Public Information about COVID-19. (2020, Journal of Health Communication)

Strickland's research topics emphasize substance abuse treatment and outcomes, behavioral health and interventions, decision-making and behavioral economics, cannabis and cannabinoid research, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, mental health research topics, and opioid use disorder treatment.

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Derek D. Reed
  • Jill A. Rabinowitz (26 collaborations)
  • Brett W. Gelino (23 collaborations)
  • Matthew W. Johnson (22 collaborations)
  • William W. Stoops (22 collaborations)

Their research is regularly published in a set of recurring scientific venues, including:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence (19 publications)
  • Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology (19 publications)
  • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (10 publications)
  • Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior (8 publications)
  • PsycEXTRA Dataset (7 publications)

Best Publications

  • The use of crowdsourcing in addiction science research: Amazon Mechanical Turk.

    Justin C Strickland;William W Stoops

  • Changes in alcohol use during COVID-19 and associations with contextual and individual difference variables: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Samuel F Acuff;Justin C Strickland;Jalie A Tucker;James G Murphy

  • Rejecting impulsivity as a psychological construct: A theoretical, empirical, and sociocultural argument

    Justin C. Strickland;Matthew W. Johnson

  • The anxiolytic effects of resistance exercise.

    Justin Charles Strickland;Mark Andrew Smith

  • The effects of sex, estrous cycle, and social contact on cocaine and heroin self-administration in rats

    Ryan T. Lacy;Ryan T. Lacy;Justin C. Strickland;Max A. Feinstein;Andrea M. Robinson

  • Behavioral and psychosocial factors associated with COVID-19 skepticism in the United States.

    Carl A. Latkin;Lauren Dayton;Meghan Moran;Justin C. Strickland

  • Unique prediction of cannabis use severity and behaviors by delay discounting and behavioral economic demand.

    Justin C. Strickland;Joshua A. Lile;William W. Stoops;William W. Stoops

  • Sex differences in the acute effects of oral and vaporized cannabis among healthy adults

    Dennis J. Sholler;Justin C. Strickland;Tory R. Spindle;Elise M. Weerts

  • An Assessment of the Rapid Decline of Trust in US Sources of Public Information about COVID-19.

    Carl A. Latkin;Lauren Dayton;Justin C. Strickland;Brian Colon

  • The Effects of Social Contact on Drug Use: Behavioral Mechanisms Controlling Drug Intake

    Justin C. Strickland;Mark A. Smith

  • Set and Setting: A Randomized Study of Different Musical Genres in Supporting Psychedelic Therapy

    Justin C. Strickland;Albert Garcia-Romeu;Matthew W. Johnson

  • Comparing exponential and exponentiated models of drug demand in cocaine users.

    Justin C Strickland;Joshua A Lile;Craig R Rush;William W Stoops

  • Naturalistic psilocybin use is associated with persisting improvements in mental health and wellbeing: results from a prospective, longitudinal survey

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  • Utilizing the commodity purchase task to evaluate behavioral economic demand for illicit substances: a review and meta-analysis.

    Justin C Strickland;Ethan M Campbell;Joshua A Lile;Joshua A Lile;William W Stoops

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder, drinking to cope, and harmful alcohol use: A multivariate meta-analysis of the self-medication hypothesis.

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  • Regulation of cocaine craving by cognitive strategies in an online sample of cocaine users.

    Justin C. Strickland;Anna R. Reynolds;William W. Stoops

  • Cognitive training and remediation interventions for substance use disorders: a Delphi consensus study

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  • Quantifying the Impact of Public Perceptions on Vaccine Acceptance Using Behavioral Economics.

    Steven R Hursh;Justin C Strickland;Lindsay P Schwartz;Derek D Reed

  • The continued rise of methamphetamine use among people who use heroin in the United States.

    Justin C. Strickland;William W. Stoops;Kelly E. Dunn;Kirsten E. Smith

  • Feasibility, acceptability, and validity of crowdsourcing for collecting longitudinal alcohol use data.

    Justin C. Strickland;William W. Stoops;William W. Stoops

  • Evaluating non-medical prescription opioid demand using commodity purchase tasks: test-retest reliability and incremental validity.

    Justin C Strickland;Joshua A Lile;Joshua A Lile;William W Stoops

  • Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Effects of Medicinal Cannabis Use in an Observational Trial

    Erin L. Martin;Justin C. Strickland;Nicolas J. Schlienz;Joel Munson

  • The effects of social learning on the acquisition of cocaine self-administration

    Mark A. Smith;Ryan T. Lacy;Justin C. Strickland

Frequent Co-Authors

William W. Stoops
William W. Stoops University of Kentucky
Craig R. Rush
Craig R. Rush University of Kentucky
Matthew W. Johnson
Matthew W. Johnson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Derek D. Reed
Derek D. Reed University of Kansas
Carl A. Latkin
Carl A. Latkin Johns Hopkins University
Carl G. Leukefeld
Carl G. Leukefeld University of Kentucky
Marcel O. Bonn-Miller
Marcel O. Bonn-Miller University of Pennsylvania
Brady Reynolds
Brady Reynolds University of Kentucky
David H. Epstein
David H. Epstein National Institute on Drug Abuse
Marilyn E. Carroll
Marilyn E. Carroll University of Minnesota

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