Stephen Wilson

Professor of Psychology

Stephen Wilson

Research Summary

Addictive behavior, with a specific focus on cigarette smoking.

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Sex differences in dorsal striatal volume and interest in quitting smoking

Siyuan Huang, R. Ross MacLean, Adriene M. Beltz, F. Joseph McClernon, Rachel V. Kozink, Stephen J. Wilson, 2025, Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Psychomotor restlessness and agitation and tobacco withdrawal.

W Dyer, A Leventhal, Y Chung, Stephen Wilson, M Bello, 2025, Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco

ESM-Q: A consensus-based quality assessment tool for experience sampling method items

G Eisele, A Hiekkaranta, Y Kunkels, Rot MAH, W van Ballegooijen, S Bartels, J Bastiaansen, P Beymer, L Bylsma, R Carpenter, W Ellison, A Fisher, T Forkmann, M Frumkin, D Fulford, K Naragon-Gainey, T Greene, V Heininga, A Jones, E Kalokerinos, P Kuppens, K Modecki, F Müller, A Neubauer, V Panaite, M Schneider, J Sun, Stephen Wilson, C Zygar-Hoffmann, I Myin-Germeys, O Kirtley, 2025, Behavior Research Methods on p. 124

Ecological momentary assessment of delay discounting, reward valuation, and craving in very light cigarette users

Melinda L. Furer, Siyuan Huang, Joshua M. Smyth, Stephen J. Wilson, 2024, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior on p. 335-350

The Cerebellar Response to Visual Portion Size Cues Is Associated with the Portion Size Effect in Children

Bari Fuchs, Alaina Pearce, Barbara J. Rolls, Stephen J. Wilson, E Rose, C Geier, Hough Garavan, Kathleen L. Keller, 2024, Nutrients

Response to E Satter and B Lohse

Kathleen L. Keller, Alaina L. Pearce, Bari Fuchs, Barbara Jean Rolls, Stephen Wilson, Charles Geier, Emma Jane Rose, Hugh Garavan, 2024, Journal of Nutrition on p. 3854-3855

PACE: a Novel Eating Behavior Phenotype to Assess Risk for Obesity in Middle Childhood

Kathleen L. Keller, Alaina L. Pearce, Bari Fuchs, Barbara J. Rolls, Stephen J. Wilson, C Geier, E Rose, Hugh Garavan, 2024, Journal of Nutrition on p. 2176-2187

Does ‘portion size’ matter? Brain responses to food and non-food cues presented in varying amounts

Bari Fuchs, Alaina Pearce, Barbara J. Rolls, Stephen Wilson, E Rose, C Geier, Kathleen Keller, 2024, Appetite on p. 107289

Parameter Space and Potential for Biomarker Development in 25 Years of fMRI Drug Cue Reactivity: A Systematic Review

Arshiya Sangchooli, Mehran Zare-Bidoky, Ali Fathi Jouzdani, Joseph Schacht, James M. Bjork, Eric D. Claus, James J. Prisciandaro, Stephen J. Wilson, Torsten Wüstenberg, Stéphane Potvin, Pooria Ahmadi, Patrick Bach, Alex Baldacchino, Anne Beck, Kathleen T. Brady, Judson A. Brewer, Anna Rose Childress, Kelly E. Courtney, Mohsen Ebrahimi, Francesca M. Filbey, Hugh Garavan, Dara G. Ghahremani, Rita Z. Goldstein, Anneke E. Goudriaan, Erica N. Grodin, Colleen A. Hanlon, Amelie Haugg, Markus Heilig, Andreas Heinz, Adrienn Holczer, Ruth J. Van Holst, Jane E. Joseph, Anthony C. Juliano, Marc J. Kaufman, Falk Kiefer, Arash Khojasteh Zonoozi, Rayus T. Kuplicki, Marco Leyton, Edythe D. London, Scott Mackey, F. Joseph McClernon, William H. Mellick, Kirsten Morley, Hamid R. Noori, Mohammad Ali Oghabian, Jason A. Oliver, Max Owens, Martin P. Paulus, Irene Perini, Parnian Rafei, Lara A. Ray, Rajita Sinha, Michael N. Smolka, Ghazaleh Soleimani, Rainer Spanagel, Vaughn R. Steele, Susan F. Tapert, Sabine Vollstädt-Klein, Reagan R. Wetherill, Katie Witkiewitz, Kai Yuan, Xiaochu Zhang, Antonio Verdejo-Garcia, Marc N. Potenza, Amy C. Janes, Hedy Kober, Anna Zilverstand, Hamed Ekhtiari, 2024, JAMA Psychiatry

Prenatal androgen influences on the brain: A review, critique, and illustration of research on congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Adriene M. Beltz, Michael I. Demidenko, Stephen J. Wilson, Sheri A. Berenbaum, 2023, Journal of Neuroscience Research on p. 563-574

Most-Cited Papers

Development of a questionnaire for assessing dependence on electronic cigarettes among a large sample of ex-smoking e-cigarette users

Jonathan Foulds, Susan Veldheer, Jessica Yingst, Shari Hrabovsky, Stephen J. Wilson, Travis T. Nichols, Thomas Eissenberg, 2015, Nicotine and Tobacco Research on p. 186-192

Factors associated with electronic cigarette users' device preferences and transition from first generation to advanced generation devices

Jessica M. Yingst, Susan Veldheer, Shari Hrabovsky, Travis T. Nichols, Stephen J. Wilson, Jonathan Foulds, 2015, Nicotine and Tobacco Research on p. 1242-1246

Nicotine absorption during electronic cigarette use among regular users

Jessica M. Yingst, Jonathan Foulds, Susan Veldheer, Shari Hrabovsky, Neil Trushin, Thomas T. Eissenberg, J. Williams, John P. Richie, T. Nichols, Stephen J. Wilson, Andrea L. Hobkirk, 2019, PLoS One on p. e0220300

Neuroimaging craving: Urge intensity matters

Stephen J. Wilson, Michael A. Sayette, 2015, Addiction on p. 195-203

The role of negative affect and self-concept clarity in predicting self-injurious urges in borderline personality disorder using ecological momentary assessment

J. Wesley Scala, Kenneth N. Levy, Benjamin N. Johnson, Yogev Kivity, William D. Ellison, Aaron L. Pincus, Stephen J. Wilson, Michelle G. Newman, 2018, Journal of Personality Disorders on p. 36-57

Views of experienced electronic cigarette users

Raman Baweja, Katherine M. Curci, Jessica Yingst, Susan Veldheer, Shari Hrabovsky, Stephen J. Wilson, Travis T. Nichols, Thomas Eissenberg, Jonathan Foulds, 2016, Addiction Research and Theory on p. 80-88

A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus

H Ekhtiari, M Zare-Bidoky, A Sangchooli, A Janes, M Kaufman, J Oliver, J Prisciandaro, T Wüstenberg, R Anton, P Bach, A Baldacchino, A Beck, J Bjork, J Brewer, A Childress, Eric Claus, K Courtney, M Ebrahimi, F Filbey, D Ghahremani, P Azbari, R Goldstein, A Goudriaan, E Grodin, J Hamilton, C Hanlon, P Hassani-Abharian, A Heinz, J Joseph, F Kiefer, A Zonoozi, H Kober, R Kuplicki, Q Li, E London, J McClernon, H Noori, M Owens, M Paulus, I Perini, M Potenza, S Potvin, L Ray, J Schacht, D Seo, R Sinha, M Smolka, R Spanagel, V Steele, E Stein, S Steins-Loeber, S Tapert, A Verdejo-Garcia, S Vollstädt-Klein, R Wetherill, Stephen J. Wilson, K Witkiewitz, K Yuan, X Zhang, A Zilverstand, 2022, Nature Protocols on p. 567-595

Food portion size and energy density evoke different patterns of brain activation in children

Laural K. English, S. Nicole Fearnbach, Stephen J. Wilson, Jennifer O. Fisher, Jennifer S. Savage, Barbara J. Rolls, Kathleen L. Keller, 2017, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on p. 295-305

Delay discounting and the use of mindful attention versus distraction in the treatment of drug addiction: A conceptual review

Melinda L. Ashe, Melinda Furer, Michelle G. Newman, Stephen J. Wilson, 2015, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior on p. 234-248

The first day is always the hardest: Functional connectivity during cue exposure and the ability to resist smoking in the initial hours of a quit attempt

Shannon L. Zelle, Kathleen M. Gates, Julie A. Fiez, Michael A. Sayette, Stephen J. Wilson, 2017, NeuroImage on p. 24-32