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Ella Reitmeier, an MU Alcohol Research Training Summer School & Internship (MU-ARTSS) students presented their talk, Drinking Motives and Alcohol Use: The Moderating Effect of Impulsivity in a Young Adult Sample.
Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants Present their Research at the Summer 2025 Research Week!
Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants Present their Research at the Summer 2025 Research Week!
Jameson Huge, an Interpersonal Relationships REU student, presented his poster on Siblings and Alcohol Use: The Mediating effect of Relationship Quality.
RSA 2025
RSA 2025
Lab members presents posters at the Research Society on Alcohol conference, June 2025.
Iris Yan presents their first year project The Associations Between Drinking Motives and Alcohol Use!
Iris Yan presents their first year project The Associations Between Drinking Motives and Alcohol Use!
Iris presented their first year project at the T32 Alcohol and Addictions Research Group Meeting on 4/28/2025.
Jill Bernabe presented at the Spring 2025 Psychological Sciences Seminar Series talk (PSSSt) on their honors thesis!
Jill Bernabe presented at the Spring 2025 Psychological Sciences Seminar Series talk (PSSSt) on their honors thesis!
Jill presented their thesis The Joint Impact of Drinking Motives and Contexts on Alcohol Consumption on 4/18/2025.
Jill Bernabe presented their poster, An Investigation of the Joint Impact of Drinking Motives and Contexts on Alcohol Consumption in Young Adults.
Undergraduate Research Assistants Present their Research at the 2025 Mizzu Show me Research Week!
Undergraduate Research Assistants Present their Research at the 2025 Mizzu Show me Research Week!
Maanasa Vollu presented their poster on Alcohol Use as a Moderator of Emotion Dysregulation in Predicting Anxiety and Depression in Young Adults.
Research Assistant Jill Bernabe was awarded the Outstanding Honors Undergraduate Researcher award!
Research Assistant Jill Bernabe was awarded the Outstanding Honors Undergraduate Researcher award!
Jill was awarded the Outstanding Honors Undergraduate Researcher award on 4/15/2025 for their exemplary work in the Trull Lab. Lab managers Noura and Jacob were able to attend the ceremony.
Tionna Hough presented their F31 grant proposal idea Expanding Drinking Protective Behavioral Strategies for the LGBTQ+ Community!
Tionna Hough presented their F31 grant proposal idea Expanding Drinking Protective Behavioral Strategies for the LGBTQ+ Community!
Tionna presented their F31 grant proposal idea at the T32 Alcohol and Addictions Research Group Meeting on 11/18/2024.
Iyana Mbong presented their poster at the 2024 MU-ARTSS Poster Session!
Iyana Mbong presented their poster at the 2024 MU-ARTSS Poster Session!
Iyana Mbong participated in the MU Alcohol Research Training Summer School & Internship (MU-ARTSS) assisting on the High Intensity Drinking (HID) project. They presented their poster, Examining How Sensation Seeking and Drinking Motives Relate to Alcohol Consumption in Young Adults, at the MU-ARTSS poster session, alongside Dr. Trull.
Haley Hultz presented their poster, Work Hard, Play Harder: Do Personality, Drinking, & employment Relate to Drinking Consequences in Daily Life? at the MU-ARTSS poster presentation session.
Haley Hultz and Kirsten Hoyt present their work at the 2023 MU-ARTSS Poster Session!
Haley Hultz and Kirsten Hoyt present their work at the 2023 MU-ARTSS Poster Session!
Kirsten Hoyt presented their poster on Reasons for Drinking as a Moderator Between Personality Traits and Heavy Drinking Behaviors at the MU-ARTSS poser session.
Dr. Trull showing off a student poster at SAA 2023
Dr. Trull showing off a student poster at SAA 2023
Dr. Trull presented poster by Anthony Bokshan at the 2023 Society on Ambulatory Assessment (SAA).
Below is a representative list of publications concerning projects conducted in the Personality and Emotion Laboratory (since 2020):
A fairly comprehensive listing and available downloads of Dr. Trull's publications can be found at www.researchgate.net or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/timothy.trull.1/bibliograpahy/46367593/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending
Harpøth, T.S.D., Kongerslev, M.T., Trull, T.J., Hepp, J., Bateman, A.W., & Simonsen, E. (2020). Associations of positive and negative emotions with ego-resiliency and quality of life in borderline personality disorder: A daily diary study. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 11, 13-23.
https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000350
Trull, T. J., & Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2020). Ambulatory Assessment in Psychopathology Research: A Review of Recommended Reporting Guidelines and Current Practices. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129, 56-63.
https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000473
Hepp, J., Lane, S. P., Carpenter, R. W., & Trull, T. J. (2020). Linking daily life interpersonal stressors and health problems via affective reactivity in borderline personality and depressive disorders. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82, 90-98. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000728
Hua, J. P. Y., Trull, T. J., Merrill, A. M., McCarty, R. M., Straub, K. T., & Kerns, J. G. (2020). Daily-life affective instability in emotional distress disorders is associated with function and structure of posterior parietal cortex. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 296, 111028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychresns.2019.111028
Schermer, J.A, Colodro-Conde, L., Grasby, K.L., Hickie, I., Burns, J., Ligthart, L., Willemsen, G., Trull, T.J., Boomsma, D.I., & Martin, N.G. (2020). Genetic and environmental causes of individual differences in borderline personality features and loneliness are partially shared. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 23, 214-220.
Helle, A. C., Trull, T. J., Watts, A., McDowell, Y., & Sher, K. J. (2020). Psychiatric Comorbidity as a Function of Severity: DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorder and HiTOP Classification of Mental Disorders. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 44(3), 632-644.
Boness, C.L, Loeffelman, J.E., Steinley, D., Trull, T.J., Sher, K.J. (2020). Using Complete Enumeration to Derive “One-Size-Fits-All” Versus “Subgroup-Specific” Diagnostic Rules for Substance Use Disorder. Assessment, 27(6) 1075–1088.
Motschman, C. A., Hatz, L. E., McCarty, K. N., Merkle, E. C., Trull, T. J., & McCarthy, D. M. (2020). Event-level predictors of alcohol-impaired driving intentions. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 81, 647-654.
Bastiaansen, J.A., Yoram K. Kunkels, Y.K., Frank J. Blaauw, F.J., Boker, S.M., Ceulemans, E., Chen, M., Chow, S-M., de Jonge, P., Emerencia, A.C., Epskamp, S., Fisher, A.J., Ellen L. Hamaker, E.L., Kuppens, P., Lutz, W., Meyer, J., Moulder, R., Oravecz, Z., Riese, H., Rubel, J., Ryan, O., Servaas, M.N., Sjobeck, G, Snippe, E., Trull, T.J., Tschacher, W., van der Veen, D.C., Wichers, M., Wood, P.K., Woods, W.C., Wright, A.C., Albers, C.J., Bringmann, L.F. (2020). Time to get personal? The impact of researchers’ choices on the selection of treatment targets using experience sampling methodology. Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
Roos, C.R., Kober, H., Trull, T.J., MacLean, R.R., Mun, C.J. (2020). Intensive longitudinal methods for studying the role of self-regulation strategies in substance use behavior change. Current Addiction Reports. 7, 301–316.
Wycoff, A., Carpenter, R. W., Hepp, J., Lane, S. P., & Trull, T. J. (2020). Drinking motives moderate daily-life associations between affect and alcohol use in individuals with borderline personality disorder. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 34(7), 745–755. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000588
Hua, J. P. Y., Trull, T. J., Merrill, A. M., Myers, O. T. T., Straub, K. T., & Kerns, J. G. (2021). Daily-life negative affect in emotional distress disorders associated with altered frontoinsular emotion regulation and cortical gyrification. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 45(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10155-8
Hepp, J., Carpenter, R. W., Freeman, L. K., Vebares, T. J., & Trull, T. J. (2021). The environmental, interpersonal, and affective context of nonsuicidal self-injury urges in daily life. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 12(1), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000456
Harpøth, T.S.D., Yeung, E. W., Trull, T.J., Simonsen, E., & Kongerslev, M.T. (2021). Ego-resiliency in borderline personality disorder and the mediating role of positive and negative affect on its associations with symptom severity and quality of life in daily life. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 28 (4), 939-949. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2548
Griffin, S. A., & Trull, T. J. (2021). Alcohol use in daily life: Examining the role of trait and state impulsivity facets. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 35(2), 199-207. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000679
Harpøth, T.S.D., Hepp, J., Trull, T.J., Bateman, A.W., Kongerslev, M.T., & Simonsen, E. (2021). Positive affect is associated with decreased symptom severity in the daily lives of individuals with borderline personality disorder. Journal of personality disorders, 35(3), 355-372. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2019_33_453
Vergés, A., Lee, M. R., Martin, C. S., Trull, T. J., Martens, M. P., Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (2021). Not all symptoms of alcohol dependence are developmentally equivalent: Implications for the false-positives problem. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 35(4), 444-457.
Wycoff, A. M., Carpenter, R. W., Hepp, J., Piasecki, T. M., & Trull, T. J. (2021). Real-time reports of drinking to cope: Associations with subjective relief from alcohol and changes in negative affect. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(6), 641–650. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000684
Griffin, S. A., Freeman, L. K., Trull, T. J. (2021). Predictors of unplanned drinking in daily life: The influence of context, impulsivity, and craving in those with emotion dysregulation. Addictive behaviors, 118, 106901.
Hua, J. P. Y., Trull, T. J., Merrill, A. M., Tidwell, E. A., & Kerns, J. G. (2021). Functional connectivity between the ventral anterior cingulate and amygdala during implicit emotional conflict regulation and daily-life emotion dysregulation. Neuropsychologia, 158, 107905.
Fleming, M.N., Wycoff, A.W., Hepp, J., Griffin, S.A., Helle, A.C., Freeman, L.K., Vebares, T.J., & Trull, T.J. (2021). A Daily-Life Study of Interpersonal Stressors and Alcohol Use in Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder and Community Controls. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 228, 109021
Helle, A. C., Sher, K. J., & Trull, T. J. (2021). Individual symptoms or categorical diagnoses? An epidemiological examination of the association between alcohol use, personality disorders, and psychological symptoms. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 12(5), 484–490. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000459
Loeffelman, J., Steinley, D., Boness, C., Trull, T.J., Wood, P., Brusco, M. J., & Sher, K.J. (2021). Combinatorial Optimization of Clustering Decisions: An Approach to Refine Psychiatric Diagnoses. Multivariate and Behavioral Research, 56, 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2020.1717921
Helle, AC, Wycoff, AM, Griffin, SA, Fleming, M., Freeman, LK, Vebares, T, Rodriguez, EM, Zapata, MF, & Trull, TJ. (2022). Co-use of medication and alcohol: The influence on subjective effects of intoxication and affect. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Trull, T.J., Hepp, J., Wycoff, A.M., Vebares, T.J., Fleming, M.N., Hua, J.P.Y., Yeung, E., and Kerns, J.G. (2022). Relations between lab indices of emotion dysregulation and negative affect reactivity in daily life in two independent studies. Journal of Affective Disorders, 297, 217-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.10.031
Aslinger, EN, Lane, SP, Thomas, KM, Lynam, DR, & Trull, TJ (2022). The Influence of Narcissistic Vulnerability and Grandiosity on Momentary Hostility Leading up to and Following Interpersonal Rejection. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 13, 199-209.
Napolitano, SC, Lane, SP, McDonald, A, Trumbower, C, Hepp, J, & Trull, TJ. (in press). The importance of close social contact on borderline personality symptoms in daily life. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Wycoff, A.M., Motschman, C.A., Griffin, S.A., Helle, A.C., Piasecki, T.M., & Trull, T.J. (in press). Simultaneous Use of Alcohol and Cigarettes in a Mixed Psychiatric Sample: Daily-life Associations with Smoking Motives, Craving, Stimulation, Sedation, and Affect. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Haney, A.M., Motschman, C.A., Warner, O.M., Wesley, R.L., Wycoff, A.M., Trull, T.J., & McCarthy, D.M. (in press). Comparing associations between mood and breath alcohol concentration in the laboratory and natural environment. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Trull, T.J., Freeman, L.K., Fleming, M.N., Vebares, T.J., & Wycoff, A.M. (2022). Using ecological momentary assessment and a portable device to quantify standard tetrahydrocannabinol units for cannabis flower smoking. Addiction, 117, 2351-2358.
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