Adrianna J. Valencia, B.S.

Graduate Student

Adrianna is a third-year student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at The University of Memphis. She is interested in understanding how discrimination and other social stressors are associated with addiction among individuals in marginalized and underrepresented populations. Adrianna is also interested in how to culturally center psychological treatment and maximize treatment effectiveness for these populations. 


Ask Adrianna about her contributions to the lab related to personalizing treatments to African American individuals!

SELECT PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

Ruggeri, K., … Valencia, A. J., …, & Garcia-Garzon, E. et al. (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nature of Human Behaviour, 6, 1386–1397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01392-w


Andersland, M. D., McPhail, A., Dow, C. V., Valencia, A. J., Pfund, R. A., Whelan, J. P. (2024, April). Expectations of the effects of nicotine on gambling behavior. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction Conference, Denver, CO.


Valencia, A. J., Ginley, M. K., Whelan, J. P., & Pfund, R. A. (2023, October). Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for gambling disorder among African American adults. Poster presented at the 2023 Tennessee Psychological Association Conference, Franklin, TN.