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Overview

Phillip K. Wood is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States and works primarily within the field of psychology. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, statistics and probability, epidemiology, applied psychology, and clinical psychology.

The main focus of Wood's scholarly work includes exploring mental health research topics, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, behavioral health and interventions, gambling behavior and treatments, statistical methods and Bayesian inference, cognitive abilities and testing, as well as advanced causal inference techniques.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wood cover a range of subjects related to psychopathology, substance use, and psychological methodology:

  • "Time to get personal? The impact of researchers choices on the selection of treatment targets using the experience sampling methodology," 2020, Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • "How Robust Is the p Factor? Using Multitrait-Multimethod Modeling to Inform the Meaning of General Factors of Youth Psychopathology," 2021, Clinical Psychological Science
  • "Incipient alcohol use in childhood: Early alcohol sipping and its relations with psychopathology and personality," 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • "How robust is the p-factor? Using multitrait-multimethod modeling to inform the meaning of general factors of psychopathology in youth," 2021, Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)
  • "Not all symptoms of alcohol dependence are developmentally equivalent: Implications for the false-positives problem," 2021, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Wood frequently publishes in journals that focus on developmental and clinical psychological science. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal
  • Journal of Data Science
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)

Collaborations are a significant part of Wood's research output, working often with several coauthors. The notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Ashley L. Watts
  • Kenneth J. Sher
  • Timothy J. Trull
  • Douglas Steinley

Wood's research integrates statistical modeling, developmental psychology, and clinical outcomes to address complex questions related to youth psychopathology, alcohol use and dependence, and treatment efficacy. Their work often employs multitrait-multimethod methodologies to clarify latent constructs in psychopathology research.

Best Publications

  • Surveying the damage: a review of research on consequences of alcohol misuse in college populations.

    H Wesley Perkins

  • Characteristics of children of alcoholics: putative risk factors, substance use and abuse, and psychopathology.

    Kenneth J. Sher;Kimberly S. Walitzer;Phillip K. Wood;Edward E. Brent

  • Revised NESARC personality disorder diagnoses: gender, prevalence, and comorbidity with substance dependence disorders.

    Timothy J. Trull;Seungmin Jahng;Rachel L. Tomko;Phillip K. Wood

  • Male Gender Role Conflict, Depression, and Help Seeking: Do College Men Face Double Jeopardy?

    Glenn E. Good;Phillip K. Wood

  • Analysis of Affective Instability in Ecological Momentary Assessment: Indices Using Successive Difference and Group Comparison via Multilevel Modeling.

    Seungmin Jahng;Phillip K. Wood;Timothy J. Trull

  • Personality and the predisposition to engage in risky or problem behaviors during adolescence.

    M Lynne Cooper;Phillip K Wood;Holly K Orcutt;Austin Albino

  • Affective instability: measuring a core feature of borderline personality disorder with ecological momentary assessment.

    Timothy J. Trull;Marika B. Solhan;Sarah L. Tragesser;Seungmin Jahng

  • Characteristics of borderline personality disorder in a community sample: comorbidity, treatment utilization, and general functioning.

    Rachel L. Tomko;Timothy J. Trull;Phillip K. Wood;Kenneth J. Sher

  • Clinical assessment of affective instability: comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall.

    Marika B. Solhan;Timothy J. Trull;Seungmin Jahng;Phillip K. Wood

  • Blue-Collar Scholars?: Mediators and Moderators of University Attrition in First-Generation College Students.

    Julia A. Martinez;Kenneth J. Sher;Jennifer L. Krull;Phillip K. Wood

  • Alcohol Outcome Expectancies and Alcohol Use: A Latent Variable Cross-Lagged Panel Study

    Kenneth J. Sher;Mark D. Wood;Phillip K. Wood;Gail Raskin

  • Two separate verbal processing rates contributing to short-term memory span.

    Nelson Cowan;Noelle L. Wood;Phillip K. Wood;Timothy A. Keller

  • Is “Maturing out” of Problematic Alcohol Involvement Related to Personality Change?

    Andrew K. Littlefield;Kenneth J. Sher;Phillip K. Wood

  • Critical Thinking among College and Graduate Students.

    Patricia M. King;Phillip K. Wood;Robert A. Mines

  • Adolescent alcohol and tobacco use: onset, persistence and trajectories of use across two samples

    Kristina M. Jackson;Kenneth J. Sher;M. Lynne Cooper;Phillip K. Wood

  • Inquiring Systems and Problem Structure: Implications for Cognitive Development

    Phillip Karl Wood

  • Developmental range of reflective judgment: The effect of contextual support and practice on developmental stage.

    Karen Strohm Kitchener;Cindy L. Lynch;Kurt W Fischer;Phillip K. Wood

  • Anxiety and Drinking Behavior: Moderating Effects of Tension‐Reduction Alcohol Outcome Expectancies

    Matt G. Kushner;Kenneth J. Sher;Mark D. Wood;Phillip K. Wood

  • Transitioning into and out of large-effect drinking in young adulthood.

    Kristina M. Jackson;Kenneth J. Sher;Heather J. Gotham;Phillip K. Wood

  • Do Changes in Drinking Motives Mediate the Relation between Personality Change and “Maturing Out” of Problem Drinking?

    Andrew K. Littlefield;Kenneth J. Sher;Phillip K. Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth J. Sher
Kenneth J. Sher University of Missouri
Timothy J. Trull
Timothy J. Trull University of Missouri
Kristina M. Jackson
Kristina M. Jackson Brown University
Thomas M. Piasecki
Thomas M. Piasecki University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew K. Littlefield
Andrew K. Littlefield Texas Tech University
Bruce D. Bartholow
Bruce D. Bartholow University of Missouri
Saul Shiffman
Saul Shiffman University of Pittsburgh
Wendy S. Slutske
Wendy S. Slutske University of Missouri
Andrew C. Heath
Andrew C. Heath Washington University in St. Louis
Kathleen K. Bucholz
Kathleen K. Bucholz Washington University in St. Louis

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