Selected Publications

Chang, Y-C, & Ladd, B.O. (2022). Effects of content and valence of episodic future thinking on delay discounting and alcohol demand. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000862.

Garrison, E., Gilligan, C., Ladd, B.O., & Anderson, K.G. (2021). Social anxiety, cannabis use motives, and social context’s impact on willingness to use cannabis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 4882.

Ladd, B.O., Murphy, J.G. & Borsari, B. (2021). Integration of motivational interviewing and behavioral economic theories to enhance brief alcohol interventions: Rationale and preliminary examination of client language. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 29(1), 90-98. DOI: 10.1037/pha0000363.

Magnan, R.E. & Ladd, B.O. (2019). “It’s all good”: Perceived benefits but not perceived risks or worries among adult marijuana users. Cannabis, 2, 112-119. DOI: 10.26828/cannabis.2019.02.001.

Fales, J.L., Ladd, B.O., & Magnan, R.E. (2019). Pain-relief as a motivation for cannabis use among young adult recreational users with and without chronic pain. Journal of Pain, 20, 908-916.

Ladd, B.O., Garcia, T.A., & Anderson, K.G. (2018). Towards an understanding of self-directed language as a mechanism of behavior change: A novel strategy for eliciting change talk under laboratory conditions. Addictive Behavior Reports, 7, 1-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.abrep.2017.11.002.

Ladd, O., Garcia, T.A., & Anderson, K.G. (2016). A novel application in the study of client language: Alcohol and marijuana-related statements in substance-using adolescents during a simulation task. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 30, 672-679. DOI: 10.1037/adb0000202.