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• Suffoletto B, Merrill JE, Chung T, Kristan J, Vanek M, Clark DB. A text message program as a booster to in-person brief interventions for mandated college students to prevent weekend binge drinking. Journal of American College Health. 2016; 64 (6) : 481-9 . full text PubMed
• Lopez-Vergara HI, Spillane NS, Merrill JE, Jackson KM. Developmental Trends in Alcohol Use Initiation and Escalation From Early to Middle Adolescence: Prediction by Urgency and Trait Affect. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 2016; 30 (5) : 578-587 . full text PubMed
• Merrill, Jennifer E., Miller, Mary Beth, Balestrieri, Sara G., Carey, Kate B. Do my peers approve? Interest in injunctive norms feedback delivered online to college student drinkers Addictive behaviors. 2016; 58 : 188-193 . full text
• Borsari B, Merrill JE, Yurasek A, Miller MB, Carey KB. Does a Brief Motivational Intervention Reduce Frequency of Pregaming in Mandated Students? Subst Use Misuse. 2016; 51 (8) : 1056-66 . full text PubMed
• Merrill JE, Carey KB. Drinking Over the Lifespan: Focus on College Ages. Alcohol research : current reviews. 2016; 38 (1) : 103-14 . PubMed
• Aston, Elizabeth R., Merrill, Jennifer E., McCarthy, Denis M., Metrik, Jane. Risk Factors for Driving After and During Marijuana Use Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2016; 77 (2) : 309-316 . full text
• Miller, Mary Beth, Merrill, Jennifer E., Yurasek, Ali M., Mastroleo, Nadine R., Borsari, Brian. Summer Versus School-Year Alcohol Use Among Mandated College Students Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2016; 77 (1) : 51-57 . full text
• Merrill JE, Kenney SR, Carey KB. The Effect of Descriptive Norms on Pregaming Frequency: Tests of Five Moderators. Subst Use Misuse. 2016; 51 (8) : 1002-12 . full text PubMed
• Merrill JE, Martin S, Abar CC, Jackson KM. Trajectories and correlates of reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking during adolescence Addictive behaviors. 2016; 52 : 1-7 . full text PubMed
• Merrill, Jennifer E., Wardell, Jeffrey D., Read, Jennifer P. Is Readiness to Change Drinking Related to Reductions in Alcohol Use and Consequences? A Week-to-Week Analysis Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2015; 76 (5) : 790-798 . full text
• Barnett, Nancy P., Merrill, Jennifer E., Kahler, Christopher W., Colby, Suzanne M. Negative Evaluations of Negative Alcohol Consequences Lead to Subsequent Reductions in Alcohol Use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 2015; 29 (4) : 992-1002 . full text PubMed
• Reid AE, Carey KB, Merrill JE, Carey MP. Social Network Influences on Initiation and Maintenance of Reduced Drinking Among College Students. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2015; 83 (1) : 36-44 . full text PubMed
• Thomas, Suzanne E., Merrill, Jennifer E., von Hofe, Johanna, Magid, Viktoriya. Coping Motives for Drinking Affect Stress Reactivity but Not Alcohol Consumption in a Clinical Laboratory Setting Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2014; 75 (1) : 115-123 . full text
• Merrill JE, Carey KB, Lust SA, Kalichman SC, Carey MP. Do students mandated to intervention for campus alcohol-related violations drink more than nonmandated students? Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 2014; 28 (4) : 1265-1270 . full text PubMed
• Merrill, Jennifer E., Wardell, Jeffrey D., Read, Jennifer P. Drinking Motives in the Prospective Prediction of Unique Alcohol-Related Consequences in College Students Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2014; 75 (1) : 93-102 . full text
• Merrill JE, Carey KB, Reid AE, Carey MP. Drinking reductions following alcohol-related sanctions are associated with social norms among college students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 2014; 28 (2) : 553-558 . full text PubMed
• Merrill JE, Reid AE, Carey MP, Carey KB. Gender and depression moderate response to brief motivational intervention for alcohol misuse among college students. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2014; 82 (6) : 984-92 . full text PubMed
• Wray TB, Merrill JE, Monti PM. Using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) to Assess Situation-Level Predictors of Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Consequences. Alcohol research : current reviews. 2014; 36 (1) : 19-27 . PubMed
• Jackson, Kristina M, Roberts, Megan E, Colby, Suzanne M, Barnett, Nancy P, Abar, Caitlin C, Merrill, Jennifer E. Willingness to Drink as a Function of Peer Offers and Peer Norms in Early Adolescence Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2014; 75 (3) : 404-414 . full text
• Merrill JE, Thomas SE. Interactions between adaptive coping and drinking to cope in predicting naturalistic drinking and drinking following a lab-based psychosocial stressor. Addictive behaviors. 2013; 38 (3) : 1672-8 . full text PubMed
• Merrill, Jennifer E., Vermont, Leah N., Bachrach, Rachel L., Read, Jennifer P. Is the Pregame to Blame? Event-Level Associations Between Pregaming and Alcohol-Related Consequences Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2013; 74 (5) : 757-764 . full text
• Merrill JE, Read JP, Colder CR. Normative perceptions and past-year consequences as predictors of subjective evaluations and weekly drinking behavior. Addictive behaviors. 2013; 38 (11) : 2625-34 . full text PubMed
• Read, Jennifer P., Merrill, Jennifer E., Griffin, Melissa J., Bachrach, Rachel L., Khan, Saba N. Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Alcohol Problems: Self-Medication or Trait Vulnerability? Am J Addict. 2013; 23 (2) : 108-116 . full text PubMed
• Merrill JE, Read JP, Barnett NP. The way one thinks affects the way one drinks: subjective evaluations of alcohol consequences predict subsequent change in drinking behavior. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 2013; 27 (1) : 42-51 . full text PubMed
• Bachrach RL, Merrill JE, Bytschkow KM, Read JP. Development and initial validation of a measure of motives for pregaming in college students. Addictive behaviors. 2012; 37 (9) : 1038-45 . full text PubMed
• Simons, Jeffrey S., Dvorak, Robert D., Merrill, Jennifer E., Read, Jennifer P. Dimensions and severity of marijuana consequences: Development and validation of the Marijuana Consequences Questionnaire (MACQ) Addictive behaviors. 2012; 37 (5) : 613-621 . full text
• Wardell JD, Read JP, Colder CR, Merrill JE. Positive alcohol expectancies mediate the influence of the behavioral activation system on alcohol use: a prospective path analysis. Addictive behaviors. 2012; 37 (4) : 435-43 . full text PubMed
• Read JP, Colder CR, Merrill JE, Ouimette P, White J, Swartout A. Trauma and posttraumatic stress symptoms predict alcohol and other drug consequence trajectories in the first year of college. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2012; 80 (3) : 426-39 . full text PubMed
• Wardell, Jeffrey D., Read, Jennifer P., Curtin, John J., Merrill, Jennifer E. Mood and Implicit Alcohol Expectancy Processes: Predicting Alcohol Consumption in the Laboratory Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 2011; 36 (1) : 119-129 . full text PubMed
• Read, Jennifer P., Merrill, Jennifer E., Bytschkow, Katrina. Before the Party Starts: Risk Factors and Reasons for “Pregaming” in College Students Journal of American College Health. 2010; 58 (5) : 461-472 . full text
• Merrill JE, Read JP. Motivational pathways to unique types of alcohol consequences. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 2010; 24 (4) : 705-11 . full text PubMed
• Merrill JE, Wardell JD, Read JP. Is expectancy reality? Associations between tension reduction beliefs and mood following alcohol consumption. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2009; 17 (6) : 434-44 . full text PubMed
• Read, Jennifer P., Beattie, Melissa, Chamberlain, Rebecca, Merrill, Jennifer E. Beyond the “Binge” threshold: Heavy drinking patterns and their association with alcohol involvement indices in college students Addictive behaviors. 2008; 33 (2) : 225-234 . full text PubMed
• Read JP, Merrill JE, Kahler CW, Strong DR. Predicting functional outcomes among college drinkers: Reliability and predictive validity of the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire Addictive behaviors. 2007; 32 (11) : 2597-2610 . full text PubMed

funded research

education and training

• PhD. State University of New York at Buffalo 2012

awards and honors

collaborator

• Aston, Elizabeth Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research)
• Barnett, Nancy Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Carey, Kate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Colby, Suzanne Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research), Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research)
• Jackson, Kristina Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research)
• Kahler, Christopher Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Chair of Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Metrik, Jane Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research), Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

credentials/licenses

• Clinical Psychologist. 2014-Present #PS01479