Dr Amber Copeland
School of Psychology
Research Associate
A.copeland@sheffield.ac.uk
Cathedral Court
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Dr Amber Copeland
School of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
School of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
- Qualifications
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- PhD: Psychology (University of Sheffield)
- MSc: Research Methods in Psychology (University of Liverpool)
- BSc: Psychology (University of Liverpool)
- Research interests
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I am mainly interested in the application of computational models of decision-making that derive from the field of cognitive neuroscience to addiction research, including alcohol use disorder and recovery from it.
My wider research interests include:
- ‘meaning in life’ and how this construct relates to patterns of substance use
- the development and application of novel quantitative techniques to explore behaviour change more broadly
- methodology, reproducibility, and open science.
Although based in the Department of Psychology, I also work alongside the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group in Sheffield’s School of Health and Related Research.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Value-based decision-making in regular alcohol consumers following experimental manipulation of alcohol value. Addictive Behaviors, 108069-108069.
- Recovery from nicotine addiction: a diffusion model decomposition of value-based decision-making in current smokers and ex-smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
- Meaning in life: investigating protective and risk factors for harmful alcohol consumption. Addiction Research and Theory.
- Behavioral economic and value-based decision-making constructs that discriminate current heavy drinkers versus people who reduced their drinking without treatment. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
- Methodological issues with value-based decision-making (VBDM) tasks: The effect of trial wording on evidence accumulation outputs from the EZ drift-diffusion model. Cogent Psychology, 9(1).
- Raising the bar: improving methodological rigour in cognitive alcohol research. Addiction, 116(11), 3243-3251.
- Raising the Bar: Improving Methodological Rigour in Cognitive Alcohol Research.
- The association between meaning in life and harmful drinking is mediated by individual differences in self-control and alcohol value. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 11.
- The iterative development and refinement of health psychology theories through formal, dynamical systems modelling: a scoping review and initial expert-derived ‘best practice’ recommendations. Health Psychology Review, 1-44.
- Modeling the value-based decision to consume alcohol in response to emotional experiences. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Chapters
- Recovery from addiction: A synthesis of perspectives from behavioral economics, psychology, and decision modeling, The Handbook of Alcohol Use (pp. 563-579). Elsevier
Conference proceedings papers
- A diffusion model decomposition of value-based decision-making in regular drinkers following experimental manipulation of alcohol demand. ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH, Vol. 47 (pp 75-75)
Preprints
- Value-based decision-making in regular cannabis users and non-users: A proof-of-concept study, Center for Open Science.
- The iterative development and refinement of health psychology theories through formal, dynamical systems modelling: A scoping review and initial ‘best practice’ recommendations, Center for Open Science.
- Value-based decision-making in regular alcohol consumers following experimental manipulation of alcohol value, Center for Open Science.
- The effect of proportional pricing on hypothetical alcohol purchasing in two online experiments, Center for Open Science.
- Recovery from nicotine addiction: A diffusion model decomposition of value-based decision-making in current smokers and ex-smokers, Center for Open Science.
- Modeling the value-based decision to consume alcohol in response to emotional experiences, Center for Open Science.
- Behavioral economic and value-based decision-making constructs that discriminate current heavy drinkers versus people who reduced their drinking without treatment, Center for Open Science.
- Meaning in life: Investigating protective and risk factors for harmful alcohol consumption, Center for Open Science.
- The association between meaning in life and harmful drinking is mediated by individual differences in self-control and alcohol value, Center for Open Science.
- Value-based decision-making in regular alcohol consumers following experimental manipulation of alcohol value. Addictive Behaviors, 108069-108069.