苹果淫院

Research Areas:

Clinical Psychology听| Health Psychology

Research Summary:

Prof. Pihl's research coalesces around the perspective that differential susceptibility/etiology for a mental disorder is a function of variability in different motivational systems.听 Work is ongoing in four areas, a developmental study of a birth cohort of twins, investigations of populations at risk for drug abuse, the assessment of drug effects, and clinical interventions with drug abusing populations.

Selected References:

Morisano, D., Hirsh, J., Peterson, J., Pihl, R., & Shore, B. (2010). Personal goal setting inproves academic performance in university students. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95, 255-264.

Flanders, J., Simard, M., Paquette, D., Parent, S., Vitaro, F., Pihl, R., & S茅guin, J.听 (2010).听 Rough-and-Tumble play and the development of physical aggression and emotion regulation: A five year follow-up study.听Journal of Family Violence, 25, 357-367.

Pihl, R.O. (2010). Mental disorders are brain disorders: You think?听Canadian Psychologist, 51, 40-49.

Pihl, R.O. (2009).The etiology of substance abuse. In P. Blaney & T. Millan (Eds.)听 Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology 2nd Ed. 听(pp. 253-279): Oxford Press, New York.

Pihl, R.O., & Sutton, R. (2009). Drugs and aggression readily mix; so what now?听Substance Use and Misuse, 44, 1188-1203.

Nantel-Vivier, A., Kokko, K., Pastorelli, C., Gerbino, M., Paciello, M., Pihl, R.O., Vitaro, F., Cote, S., Caprara, G. & Tremblay, R. (2009). Prosocial development from childhood to adolescence:听 A multi-informant perspective with Canadian and Italian longitudinal studies.听 ournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, (5)听 590-598.

Mottillo, S., Filion, K., Belisle, P., Joseph, L., Gervais, A., O鈥橪oughlin, J., Paradis, G., Pihl, R.O., Pilote, L., Rinfret, S., Tremblay, M., & Eisenberg, M. (2009). Behavioral interventions for smoking cessation:听 A metal-analysis of randomized controlled trials.听 European Heart Journal, 30, 718-730.

Brunelle, C., Douglas, R., Pihl, R.O. & Stewart, S. (2009). Personality and substance use disorders in female offenders: A matched controlled study. Personality and Individual Differences,听46, 472-476.