Department of Health Behavior
Research. Lifestyle. Community.

R. Lorraine Collins, PhD
Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health and Health Professions
Professor, Department of Health Behavior

lcollins@buffalo.edu
327 Kimball Tower
716-829-6951
716-829-6040 (fax)

Education
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
PhD, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Clinical Internship, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
MS, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Jersey
BA, Psychology, First Class Honours, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Profile
Dr. Collins is a psychologist. Her current projects are: Restraint and attributions: Risk factors in alcohol abuse (funded by NIAAA), Women Bar Drinkers: Exploring Risks for HIV (funded by NIAAA), Knowledge exchange and skills training for therapists (funded by NIDA), Drug use and problem behaviors in minority youth (funded by NIDA), and Practicing self-control lowers the risk of smoking lapse (funded by NIDA).

Research Interests
Drinking restraint; malt liquor and marjuana use, psychosocial factors in substance use; women's issues; smoking.

Selected Publications

  • Collins RL, Bradizza CM, & Vincent PC. (2007). Young adult malt liquor drinkers: Prediction of alcohol problems and marijuana use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21, 138-146.
  • Collins RL, & Muraven M. (2007). Ecological momentary assessment for alcohol consumption. In A.A. Stone, S. Shiffman, A.A. Atienza, & L. Nebeling (Eds.), The science of real-time data capture: Self report in health research. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
  • Collins RL, Quigley BM, Leonard KE. (2007). Women's physical aggression in bars: An event-based examination of precipitants and predictors of severity. Aggressive Behavior, 33, 304-313.
  • Muraven M, Collins RL, Morsheimer ET, Shiffman S, Paty JA. (2005). The morning after: Limit violations and the self-regulation of alcohol consumption. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19, 253-262. Abstract
  • Muraven M, Collins RL, Morsheimer ET, Shiffman S, Paty JA. (2005). One too many: Prediciting future alcohol consumption following excessive drinking. Experimental and Clinical Psychophamacology, 13, 127-136. Abstract
  • Collins RL, Kashdan TB, Gollnisch G. (2003). The feasibility of using cellular phones to collect ecological momentary assessment data: Application to alcohol consumption. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 11, 73-78. Abstract

Professional Affiliations
American Psychological Association, International Society for Research on Aggression, Research Society on Alcoholism

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