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Tibor P. Palfai is a researcher affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their work has a strong focus on the intersection of medicine and psychology, contributing extensively to studies addressing HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and behavioral health interventions.

Their research spans several interconnected fields of study, including:

  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Within these broader disciplines, Palfai's subfields focus on:

  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • General Health Professions
  • Applied Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Their work extensively covers topics such as:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Palfai has published multiple articles in prominent journals, including AIDS and Behavior, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, and Addictive Behaviors. Some of their recent publications include:

  • How Alcohol Influences Mechanisms of Sexual Risk Behavior Change: Contributions of Alcohol Challenge Research to the Development of HIV Prevention Interventions, 2021, AIDS and Behavior
  • Cannabis use and sexual risk among MSM who drink: Understanding why more frequent cannabis users may engage in higher rates of condomless sex, 2022, Drug and Alcohol Dependence (co-authored by María José Bustamante)
  • Electronic screening and brief intervention to reduce cannabis use and consequences among graduate students presenting to a student health center: A pilot study, 2020, Addictive Behaviors (co-authored by Tracie M. Goodness)
  • Daily Associations Among Alcohol Intoxication, Partner Familiarity, Participant Effortful Control, Urgency, and PrEP Uptake on Sexual Behavior in Men Who Have Sex with Men, 2021, Archives of Sexual Behavior (co-authored by Stephen A. Maisto)
  • Drinking motives mediate the associations between urgency and hazardous/harmful alcohol use among moderate-to-heavy drinking men who have sex with men (MSM), 2020, Addictive Behaviors (co-authored by K. R. Anderson)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Palfai include:

  • Stephen A. Maisto
  • Jeffrey S. Simons
  • Kara M. Magane
  • Maya P. L. Kratzer
  • Jeffrey H. Samet

The researcher's work appears predominantly in journals specializing in substance abuse and behavioral health, such as:

  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
  • Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • Emotional attention, clarity, and repair : Exploring emotional intelligence using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale

    Peter Salovey;John D. Mayer;Susan Lee Goldman;Carolyn Turvey

  • Theory of mind and rule-based reasoning

    Douglas Frye;Philip David Zelazo;Tibor Palfai

  • Are Needs to Manage Uncertainty and Threat Associated With Political Conservatism or Ideological Extremity

    John T. Jost;Jaime L. Napier;Hulda Thorisdottir;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Examining the role of drinking motives in college student alcohol use and problems.

    Jennifer P. Read;Mark D. Wood;Christopher W. Kahler;Jay E. Maddock

  • Social influence processes and college student drinking: the mediational role of alcohol outcome expectancies

    Mark D. Wood;Jennifer P. Read;Tibor P. Palfai;John F. Stevenson

  • Alcohol-related motivational tendencies in hazardous drinkers: assessing implicit response tendencies using the modified-IAT.

    Tibor P Palfai;Brian D Ostafin

  • Screening and brief intervention for drug use in primary care: the ASPIRE randomized clinical trial.

    Richard Saitz;Tibor P. A. Palfai;Debbie M. Cheng;Daniel P. Alford

  • Attachment dimensions and drinking-related problems among young adults: The mediational role of coping motives

    Abigail M. McNally;Tibor P. Palfai;Rachel V. Levine;Bianca M. Moore

  • The Influence of Depressed and Elated Mood on Deductive and Inductive Reasoning

    Tibor P. Palfai;Peter Salovey

  • Technology-delivered adaptations of motivational interviewing for health-related behaviors: A systematic review of the current research.

    Rebecca M. Shingleton;Tibor P. Palfai

  • Compelled to consume: the Implicit Association Test and automatic alcohol motivation.

    Brian D. Ostafin;Tibor P. Palfai

  • Effects of naltrexone on alcohol self-administration in heavy drinkers.

    Dena Davidson;Tibor Palfai;Chris Bird;Robert Swift

  • Brief intervention for medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use: a randomized, controlled trial

    Richard Saitz;Tibor P. Palfai;Debbie M. Cheng;Nicholas J. Horton

  • Screening and brief intervention online for college students: the ihealth study.

    Richard Saitz;Tibor P. Palfai;Naomi Freedner;Michael R. Winter

  • The search for new ways to change implicit alcohol-related cognitions in heavy drinkers

    Reinout W. Wiers;W. Miles Cox;Matt Field;Javad Salehi Fadardi

  • Effects of suppressing the urge to drink on the accessibility of alcohol outcome expectancies

    Tibor P. Palfai;Peter M. Monti;Peter M. Monti;Suzanne M. Colby;Damaris J. Rohsenow;Damaris J. Rohsenow

  • Social environmental selection as a mediator of gender, ethnic, and personality effects on college student drinking.

    Christopher W. Kahler;Jennifer P. Read;Mark D. Wood;Tibor P. Palfai

  • Gender, alcohol consumption, and differing alcohol expectancy dimensions in college drinkers.

    Jennifer P. Read;Mark D. Wood;C. W. Lejuez;Tibor P. Palfai

  • Mapping the continuum of alcohol problems in college students: a Rasch model analysis.

    Christopher W. Kahler;David R. Strong;Jennifer P. Read;Tibor P. Palfai

  • Motivational interventions for heavy drinking college students: examining the role of discrepancy-related psychological processes.

    Abigail M. McNally;Tibor P. Palfai;Christopher W. Kahler

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Saitz
Richard Saitz Boston University
Stephen A. Maisto
Stephen A. Maisto Syracuse University
Peter Salovey
Peter Salovey Yale University
Mark D. Wood
Mark D. Wood University of Rhode Island
Christopher W. Kahler
Christopher W. Kahler Brown University
Jeffrey S. Simons
Jeffrey S. Simons University of South Dakota
Jennifer P. Read
Jennifer P. Read University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Peter M. Monti
Peter M. Monti Brown University
Damaris J. Rohsenow
Damaris J. Rohsenow Brown University
David H. Barlow
David H. Barlow Boston University

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