2004 — 2008 |
Viken, Richard J |
T32Activity Code Description: To enable institutions to make National Research Service Awards to individuals selected by them for predoctoral and postdoctoral research training in specified shortage areas. |
Research Training in Clinical Science @ Indiana University Bloomington
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Clinical Science Program at Indiana University is dedicated to one goal: Training first-rate clinical scientists in the broad discipline of psychology, preparing trainees to contribute to the advancement of knowledge aimed at solving psychological clinical problems. Clinical scientists are distinguished from other psychological scientists primarily by their problem focus, which centers on describing, measuring, predicting, explaining, preventing, and ameliorating problems in psychopathology, i.e., problems manifest in abnormal intra-personal and interpersonal behavior, affect, cognition, and health. Consistent with this definition, Indiana's program is committed to preparing trainees for research careers in which they investigate clinically relevant problems by applying the very best theories and methods available from throughout psychological science (and beyond). Clinical science trainees are trained broadly as integrative psychological scientists through Indiana's unique Hybrid Training Model, in which all trainees specialize in both clinical science and at least one other substantive area, typically cognitive science or neuroscience. The program's core faculty also is a hybrid mix of scientists representing clinical, cognitive, and neural perspectives. The program is designed to remove barriers between areas and to produce scientists who can pursue novel and truly integrative solutions to psychological clinical problems. This application seeks to continue and extend Indiana's Clinical Science Program for another five years (years 21-25), with funding for six pre-doctoral and three post-doctoral trainees per year. This hybrid training model has been evolving over many years, but has been in full force for at least seven years. The record of trainees produced under this hybrid model demonstrates the success of Indiana's program, and justifies its continuation and expansion.
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2014 — 2015 |
Treat, Teresa A [⬀] Viken, Richard J |
R21Activity Code Description: To encourage the development of new research activities in categorical program areas. (Support generally is restricted in level of support and in time.) |
Alocohol Effects On Transfer of Men's Learning About Women's Cues
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Male-initiated sexual aggression toward female acquaintances is a major public-health problem in adolescence and early adulthood, and risk of sexual aggression is strongly associated with alcohol use. The efficacy of existing prevention programs for sexual aggression has been disappointing, suggesting that additional pathways to change should be investigated. Because alcohol intoxication is such an important contextual variable for sexual aggression, it is also important to evaluate the generalizability of any changes to the intoxicated state. The current project seeks to translate emerging methods from cognitive and learning sciences into a novel cognitive-training procedure and to evaluate the degree to which training effects are maintained during intoxication in the laboratory. Ultimately, we hope that extended versions of the proposed training procedure could be used to supplement existing prevention efforts in sexual aggression. The goals are (1) To evaluate whether a novel cognitive-training procedure enhances men's learning about women's social cues and whether those training effects transfer to other tasks assessing attention, decision-making, and behavioral intention to exhibit sexual aggression; (2) To examine alcohol effects on men's processing of women's affective cues, their decision making, and their behavioral intention to exhibit sexual aggression; and (3) To determine whether the training program moderates or reduces alcohol effects on attention, decision making and behavioral intention to exhibit sexual aggression. One-hundred eighty 21- 25 year old participants will complete either the training program or a control task, after which they will be randomly assigned to consume either no alcohol or a moderate dose of alcohol. Both groups will complete social-cognitive tasks assessing attention, decision making, and behavioral intention. In another session, participants will complete assessments of drinking patterns, alcohol expectancies, rape supportive attitudes, and past history of sexual aggression. Multilevel and general linear modeling will be used to evaluate the influence of training condition and intoxication on cognitive processing as well as the interactions of training and alcohol effects. The explicit translational goal of the project isto take emerging theory and methods from basic cognitive and learning science and develop them into procedures with the potential of contributing to effective prevention efforts in sexual aggression, and which will be robust to the important contextual effects of alcohol intoxication.
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