Stephen Wilson

Associate Professor of Psychology

Stephen Wilson

Research Summary

Addictive behavior, with a specific focus on cigarette smoking.

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Brain Tobacco Products Smoking Nicotine Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cues Electronics Craving Smokers Young Adult Smoke Prefrontal Cortex Cigarette Smoking Alcohol Alcohols Equipment And Supplies Pharmaceutical Preparations Reward Neuroimaging Emotions Tobacco Use Disorder Emotion Food Checklist

Most Recent Publications

Constructing Craving: Applying the Theory of Constructed Emotion to Urge States

Stephen J. Wilson, 2022, Current Directions in Psychological Science on p. 347-354

Pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of random nicotine delivery on cigarettes per day and smoke exposure

Jessica M. Yingst, Courtney Lester, Craig Livelsberger, Sophia Allen, Erin Hammett, Susan Veldheer, Breianna Hummer, Candace Bordner, Junjia Zhu, Christopher N. Sciamanna, Trushin, N Trushin, Hock Tan, Stephen J. Wilson, Robert Twining, Jonathan Foulds, Patricia Sue Grigson, 2022, Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques on p. 30-37

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

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

A. Beltz, M. Demidenko, Stephen Wilson, S Berenbaum, 2022, Journal of Neuroscience Research on p. 1-12

Flavor and product messaging are the two most important drivers of electronic cigarette selection in a choice-based task

Allison N. Baker, Stephen J. Wilson, John E. Hayes, 2021, Scientific Reports

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, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience Research

Neural correlates of working memory’s suppression of aversive olfactory distraction effects

A. Weigard, Stephen J. Wilson, Zvi Shapiro, Hilary Galloway-Long, Cynthia Huang-Pollock, 2021, Brain Imaging and Behavior on p. 2254-2268

The feasibility of an in-scanner smoking lapse paradigm to examine the neural correlates of lapses

David M. Lydon-Staley, R. Ross MacLean, Emily B. Falk, Danielle S. Bassett, Stephen J. Wilson, 2021, Addiction Biology

Very Light Daily Smoking in Young Adults: Relationships between Nicotine Dependence and Lapse

M. Ashe, Stephen Wilson, 2021, Nicotine and Tobacco Research on p. 327-333

Development and Pilot Testing of Standardized Food Images for Studying Eating Behaviors in Children

Samantha Kling, Alaina Pearce, Marissa Reynolds, Hugh Garavan, Charles F. Geier, Barbara J. Rolls, Emma J. Rose, C Geier, Stephen J. Wilson, Kathleen L. Keller, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology on p. 1729

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

Adolescent brain maturation and smoking: What we know and where we're headed

David M. Lydon, Stephen J. Wilson, Amanda Child, Charles F. Geier, 2014, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews on p. 323-342

Neuroimaging craving: Urge intensity matters

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

Quitting-unmotivated and quitting-motivated cigarette smokers exhibit different patterns of cue-elicited brain activation when anticipating an opportunity to smoke.

Stephen J. Wilson, Michael A. Sayette, Julie A. Fiez, 2012, Journal of Abnormal Psychology on p. 198-211

Weak ventral striatal responses to monetary outcomes predict an unwillingness to resist cigarette smoking

Stephen J. Wilson, Mauricio R. Delgado, Sherry A. McKee, Patricia S. Grigson, R. Ross MacLean, Travis T. Nichols, Shannon L. Henry, 2014, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 1196-1207

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

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

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

Changes in alcohol-related brain networks across the first year of college: A prospective pilot study using fMRI effective connectivity mapping

Adriene M. Beltz, Kathleen M. Gates, Anna S. Engels, Peter C.M. Molenaar, Carmen Pulido, Robert Turrisi, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Rick O. Gilmore, Stephen J. Wilson, 2013, Addictive Behaviors on p. 2052-2059