The Psychology Colloquium series presents Dr. Dominic Parrott on “Using Laboratory Methods to Inform Interventions for Alcohol-Related Aggression” on Friday, Sept. 1, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 102.
Dr. Dominic Parro
Parrott is currently a Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University. He earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Georgia in 2003. His research aims to reduce interpersonal violence by (1) identifying risk and protective factors for perpetrating aggressive behavior and (2) informing intervention programming. This work uses different methodologies (e.g., laboratory, survey) to study different forms of aggression (e.g., physical, sexual) toward various targets (e.g., sexual minorities, women) and under different conditions (e.g., alcohol intoxication, in group settings).
Parrott’s current multisite research project extends prior work beyond the issue of whether alcohol is associated with intimate partner violence and instead examines how specific affective and cognitive processes mediate the relationship between alcohol intoxication and partner-directed aggression. In addition, this project will empirically examine how theoretically informed intervention manipulations may minimize the hypothesized effect of alcohol-facilitated cognitive impairments on aggression.
He also supervises a specialized practicum team that conducts brief motivational interventions for heavy drinking men and women. This work is consistent with his clinical interests in the assessment and treatment of adults with substance use and anger-related difficulties.
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