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44
Citations
13358
World Ranking
6824
National Ranking
685

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

W. Miles Cox is affiliated with Bangor University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a strong emphasis on applied, experimental and cognitive, social, epidemiological, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work focuses extensively on behavioral health and interventions, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, mental health research topics, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, digital mental health interventions, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and motivation and self-concept in sports.

Recent publications by W. Miles Cox include:

  • Assessing current concerns and goals idiographically: A review of the Motivational Structure Questionnaire family of instruments, 2021, Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Identifying the Main Components of Substance-Related Addiction Recovery Groups, 2021, Substance Use & Misuse

Other related recent papers within their research network include works published in Substance Use & Misuse, European Addiction Research, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and the Journal of Substance Use, covering topics such as neurofeedback training for alcohol dependence and attentional control training for alcohol use disorder.

Frequent co-authors contributing to work alongside W. Miles Cox include Javad Salehi Fadardi, Eric Klinger, Hannah Rettie, Lee Hogan, and Mansour Bagheri.

Their work has appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Journal of Substance Use
  • Journal of Addictive Diseases
  • Substance Use & Misuse
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology

In recognition of contributions to psychology, W. Miles Cox was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1990.

Best Publications

  • A Motivational Model of Alcohol Use

    W. Miles Cox;Eric Klinger

  • Attentional bias in addictive behaviors: A review of its development, causes, and consequences

    Matt Field;W. Miles Cox

  • A motivational model of alcohol use.

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  • The efficacy of motivational interviewing as a brief intervention for excessive drinking: A meta-analytic review.

    Eirini I. Vasilaki;Steven G. Hosier;W. Miles Cox

  • The addiction-stroop test: Theoretical considerations and procedural recommendations.

    W. Miles Cox;Javad Salehi Fadardi;Emmanuel M. Pothos

  • Alcohol attentional bias as a predictor of alcohol abusers' treatment outcome.

    W.Miles Cox;Lee M Hogan;Marc R Kristian;Julian H Race

  • Dimensions of Thought Flow in Everyday Life

    Eric Klinger;W. Miles Cox

  • Reversing the sequence: Reducing alcohol consumption by overcoming alcohol attentional bias

    Javad Salehi Fadardi;Javad Salehi Fadardi;W. Miles Cox

  • Incentive motivation, affective change, and alcohol use: A model

    W. Miles Cox;E. Klinger

  • Productivity Ratings of Graduate Programs in Psychology Based on Publication in the Journals of the American Psychological Association.

    W. Miles Cox;Viola Catt

  • Traumatic brain injury and substance misuse: a systematic review of prevalence and outcomes research (1994-2004).

    Beth L. Parry-Jones;Frances L. Vaughan;W. Miles Cox

  • Alcoholic subjects' attentional bias in the processing of alcohol-related words.

    Bjørn Helge Johnsen;Jon Christian Laberg;W. Miles Cox;Arild Vaksdal

  • Handbook of Motivational Counseling

    W. Miles Cox;Eric Klinger

  • Motivation and the Goal Theory of Current Concerns

    Eric Klinger;W. Miles Cox

  • A Motivational Model of Alcohol Use: Determinants of Use and Change

    W. Miles Cox;Eric Klinger

  • Handbook of motivational counseling : concepts, approaches, and assessment

    W. Miles Cox;Eric Klinger

  • Effects of alcohol cues on cognitive processing in heavy and light drinkers.

    W.Miles Cox;Giles N. Yeates;Cara M. Regan

  • Alcohol cognitive bias modification training for problem drinkers over the web.

    Reinout W. Wiers;Katrijn Houben;Javad Salehi Fadardi;Javad Salehi Fadardi;Paul Van Beek

  • Motivational structure: Relationships with substance use and processes of change

    W.Miles Cox;Eric Klinger

  • 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

  • Differentiating Heavy from Light Drinkers by Neural Responses to Visual Alcohol Cues and Other Motivational Stimuli

    Niklas Ihssen;W. Miles Cox;Alison Wiggett;Javad Salehi Fadardi;Javad Salehi Fadardi

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Klinger
Eric Klinger University of Minnesota
Emmanuel M. Pothos
Emmanuel M. Pothos City, University of London
Mary McMurran
Mary McMurran University of Nottingham
David Edmund Johannes Linden
David Edmund Johannes Linden Maastricht University
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Matt Field
Matt Field University of Sheffield
Natalia Lawrence
Natalia Lawrence University of Exeter
Bjørn Helge Johnsen
Bjørn Helge Johnsen University of Bergen
Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally Harvard University
Simon Dymond
Simon Dymond Swansea University

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