Peter Finn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5224997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Finn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Finn |
| SIGNATURE | FINN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0998-0442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Concerns About Sexual Assault in Undergraduate Students Are Greater in Women and Risky Drinking Contexts: Relevance for Drinking Habits, Problems, and Decisions
Background: This study investigated sex differences in concerns about unwanted sexual advances (CAUSA) in drinking contexts that varied in terms of the familiarity of people and location, and size of the party. Hypotheses tested were: women have more CAUSA than men, CAUSA are higher in unfamiliar large events than familiar small events for women more than men, and CAUSA will predict decisions to drink less especially in unfamiliar contexts. Metho…
‘I am a Drinker’: A Content, Correlational, and Factor Analytic Study of Measures of Drinker Identity Among College Students
Background: Drinker identity research has proliferated over the last decade, resulting in 10 self-report questionnaire measures of this construct. However, it is unknown to what extent these measures accurately reflect the theorized multi-dimensional conceptualization of drinker identity. Objectives: The current study set out to investigate and compare these different measures using content, correlational, and factor analyses. A content analysis …
Social/Party Incentives Increase the Risk of Heavier Alcohol Use in Impulsive Individuals
BACKGROUND: Impulsivity is associated with excessive drinking and negative alcohol-related consequences. However, studies have not used an in-vivo approach (i.e., daily diary) to examine how the effect of impulsivity on excessive alcohol use could be moderated by context-specific mechanisms, such as incentives. METHOD: = 102, 61.8% females), who, for two weeks, responded to questions about their total number of drinks and the incentives (alcohol …
Impulsive Decision Reduction Training for Youth (IDRT-Y) to Promote Adaptive Decision-Making: Results from a Pilot Trial
Decision biases contribute to disruptive behavior, substance use, and other risky behaviors in youth, yet few interventions directly target decision-making processes to promote adaptive outcomes. This study adapted Impulsive Decision Reduction Training for Youth (IDRT-Y) from an adult model to improve adolescent decision-making and reduce risky behaviors. In an open pilot trial, 26 youth (ages 10-17) with frequent, impairing risky behaviors were …
A New Perspective on “Drinking” Self: A Network Approach to Characterizing Drinking-Related Changes in Personality
Background Previous research suggests that self-knowledge, particularly perceptions of oneself as a “drinker,” may influence the development and progression of alcohol use and related problems, such as binge drinking. While existing studies have provided empirical evidence for the importance of assessing drinking self-perception within the five-factor model of personality framework, further examination with novel analytic methods, such as network…
The Impact of Gain- and Loss-Framed Messages on Young Adults’ Sexual Decision Making: An Experimental Study
The Emperor Has No Clothes: A Review of the ‘Pornography Addiction’ Model
A year in the college life: Evidence for the social investment hypothesis via trait self-control and alcohol consumption
The Effects of Impulsivity, Sexual Arousability, and Abstract Intellectual Ability on Men’s and Women’s Go/No-Go Task Performance
The Effects of Acute Ethanol Consumption on Sexual Response and Sexual Risk-Taking Intent
A Self-Regulatory Model of Behavioral Disinhibition in Late Adolescence: Integrating Personality Traits, Externalizing Psychopathology, and Cognitive Capacity
Two samples with heterogeneous prevalence of externalizing psychopathology were used to investigate the structure of self-regulatory models of behavioral disinhibition and cognitive capacity. Consistent with expectations, structural equation modeling in the first sample (N=541) showed a hierarchical model with 3 lower order factors of impulsive sensation seeking, antisociality/unconventionality, and lifetime externalizing problem counts, with a b…
Relations Between Substance Use and Personal Dispositions Towards Out-of-Control Sexual Behaviors Among Young Adults
This paper examines the extent of associations between the two personal dispositions “sexual sensation seeking” and “sexual compulsivity,” and use of alcohol and stimulants in a sample of 539 young adults. Men scored higher on measures of sexual compulsivity and sexual sensation seeking than women. Stimulant drug use was associated with a high level of sexually compulsive behaviors. Strong positive associations were also found between sexual sens…
Similar processes despite divergent behavior in two commonly used measures of risky decision making
Performance on complex decision-making tasks may depend on a multitude of processes. Two such tasks, the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART), are of particular interest because they are associated with real world risky behavior, including illegal drug use. We used cognitive models to disentangle underlying processes in both tasks. Whereas behavioral measures from the IGT and BART were uncorrelated, cognitive models reveal…
Designing ethical phishing experiments
While fraud has been part of human society for as long as we know, the automated type of fraud that is known as phishing is a relatively recent phenomenon. It is becoming clear to society that phishing is a problem of quite catastrophic dimensions. Phishing is a multifaceted techno-social problem for which there is no known single silver bullet. As a result of these insights, an increasing number of researchers and practitioners are attempting to…
Individual differences in the response to forgone payoffs: An examination of high functioning drug abusers
This study evaluates the effect of forgone payoffs in decision-making tasks used for studying individual differences. We investigate whether the disclosure of forgone payoffs (defined as payoffs associated with un-chosen alternatives) has selective effects for drug abusers. Evidence suggests that drug abusers are hypersensitive to signals of positive reward. Accordingly, because the forgone payoffs of risky high-variability options include reward…
Heart rate reactivity in HAD and LAD rats during Pavlovian fear conditioning
The sexual inhibition (SIS) and sexual excitation (SES) scales: II. Predicting psychophysiological response patterns
This study evaluated the predictive value of a newly developed measure of the propensity for sexual inhibition and excitation; the Sexual Inhibition Sexual Excitation Scales (SIS/SES). Sexual, cardiovascular, and startle responses were measured in a group of 40 sexually functional men during the presentation of threatening and nonthreatening erotic films. Two levels of performance demand were created and two films were combined with a distraction…
The sexual inhibition (SIS) and sexual excitation (SES) scales: I. Measuring sexual inhibition and excitation proneness in men
This study involves the development and initial validation of a questionnaire measuring the propensity for sexual inhibition and excitation in men: the Sexual Inhibition Sexual Excitation Scales (SIS/SES). The underlying theoretical model postulates that sexual response and associated behavior depend on dual control mechanisms, involving excitatory and inhibitory neurophysiological systems. The scales and their discriminant and convergent validit…
Constraint, alcoholism, and electrodermal response in aversive classical conditioning and mismatch novelty paradigms
The effects of acute plasma tryptophan manipulation on hostile mood: The influence of trait hostility
The effects of acute plasma tryptophan manipulation on changes in hostile, anxious, and depressive mood were studied in 48 males. Subjects consumed tryptophan-free or nutritionally balanced amino acid mixtures as a means of manipulating brain serotonin levels. Mood (hostility, anxiety, depression) was assessed pre- and 5 hr post-ingestion using the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist. Overall, the tryptophan manipulation resulted in significant c…
The effects of acute plasma tryptophan manipulation on hostile mood: The influence of trait hostility
Police handling of the mentally ill: Sharing responsibility with the mental health system
Clergy involvement in occupational safety and health
Risks entailed in teenage intoxication as perceived by junior and senior high school students
Transportation Education and the Social Studies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter FinnPeter Finn is Senior Education and Training Analyst and Project Director for Abt Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts
The sexual inhibition (SIS) and sexual excitation (SES) scales: I. Measuring sexual inhibition and excitation proneness in men
This study involves the development and initial validation of a questionnaire measuring the propensity for sexual inhibition and excitation in men: the Sexual Inhibition Sexual Excitation Scales (SIS/SES). The underlying theoretical model postulates that sexual response and associated behavior depend on dual control mechanisms, involving excitatory and inhibitory neurophysiological systems. The scales and their discriminant and convergent validit…
The sexual inhibition (SIS) and sexual excitation (SES) scales: II. Predicting psychophysiological response patterns
This study evaluated the predictive value of a newly developed measure of the propensity for sexual inhibition and excitation; the Sexual Inhibition Sexual Excitation Scales (SIS/SES). Sexual, cardiovascular, and startle responses were measured in a group of 40 sexually functional men during the presentation of threatening and nonthreatening erotic films. Two levels of performance demand were created and two films were combined with a distraction…
The Effects of Impulsivity, Sexual Arousability, and Abstract Intellectual Ability on Men’s and Women’s Go/No-Go Task Performance
Individual differences in the response to forgone payoffs: An examination of high functioning drug abusers
This study evaluates the effect of forgone payoffs in decision-making tasks used for studying individual differences. We investigate whether the disclosure of forgone payoffs (defined as payoffs associated with un-chosen alternatives) has selective effects for drug abusers. Evidence suggests that drug abusers are hypersensitive to signals of positive reward. Accordingly, because the forgone payoffs of risky high-variability options include reward…
The Effects of Acute Ethanol Consumption on Sexual Response and Sexual Risk-Taking Intent
The Impact of Gain- and Loss-Framed Messages on Young Adults’ Sexual Decision Making: An Experimental Study
A year in the college life: Evidence for the social investment hypothesis via trait self-control and alcohol consumption
Similar processes despite divergent behavior in two commonly used measures of risky decision making
Performance on complex decision-making tasks may depend on a multitude of processes. Two such tasks, the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART), are of particular interest because they are associated with real world risky behavior, including illegal drug use. We used cognitive models to disentangle underlying processes in both tasks. Whereas behavioral measures from the IGT and BART were uncorrelated, cognitive models reveal…
Risks entailed in teenage intoxication as perceived by junior and senior high school students
Transportation Education and the Social Studies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter FinnPeter Finn is Senior Education and Training Analyst and Project Director for Abt Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Clergy involvement in occupational safety and health
Risks entailed in teenage intoxication as perceived by junior and senior high school students
Police handling of the mentally ill: Sharing responsibility with the mental health system
The effects of acute plasma tryptophan manipulation on hostile mood: The influence of trait hostility
The effects of acute plasma tryptophan manipulation on changes in hostile, anxious, and depressive mood were studied in 48 males. Subjects consumed tryptophan-free or nutritionally balanced amino acid mixtures as a means of manipulating brain serotonin levels. Mood (hostility, anxiety, depression) was assessed pre- and 5 hr post-ingestion using the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist. Overall, the tryptophan manipulation resulted in significant c…
The effects of acute plasma tryptophan manipulation on hostile mood: The influence of trait hostility
Constraint, alcoholism, and electrodermal response in aversive classical conditioning and mismatch novelty paradigms
The sexual inhibition (SIS) and sexual excitation (SES) scales: II. Predicting psychophysiological response patterns
This study evaluated the predictive value of a newly developed measure of the propensity for sexual inhibition and excitation; the Sexual Inhibition Sexual Excitation Scales (SIS/SES). Sexual, cardiovascular, and startle responses were measured in a group of 40 sexually functional men during the presentation of threatening and nonthreatening erotic films. Two levels of performance demand were created and two films were combined with a distraction…
The sexual inhibition (SIS) and sexual excitation (SES) scales: I. Measuring sexual inhibition and excitation proneness in men
This study involves the development and initial validation of a questionnaire measuring the propensity for sexual inhibition and excitation in men: the Sexual Inhibition Sexual Excitation Scales (SIS/SES). The underlying theoretical model postulates that sexual response and associated behavior depend on dual control mechanisms, involving excitatory and inhibitory neurophysiological systems. The scales and their discriminant and convergent validit…
Heart rate reactivity in HAD and LAD rats during Pavlovian fear conditioning
Individual differences in the response to forgone payoffs: An examination of high functioning drug abusers
This study evaluates the effect of forgone payoffs in decision-making tasks used for studying individual differences. We investigate whether the disclosure of forgone payoffs (defined as payoffs associated with un-chosen alternatives) has selective effects for drug abusers. Evidence suggests that drug abusers are hypersensitive to signals of positive reward. Accordingly, because the forgone payoffs of risky high-variability options include reward…
Designing ethical phishing experiments
While fraud has been part of human society for as long as we know, the automated type of fraud that is known as phishing is a relatively recent phenomenon. It is becoming clear to society that phishing is a problem of quite catastrophic dimensions. Phishing is a multifaceted techno-social problem for which there is no known single silver bullet. As a result of these insights, an increasing number of researchers and practitioners are attempting to…
Relations Between Substance Use and Personal Dispositions Towards Out-of-Control Sexual Behaviors Among Young Adults
This paper examines the extent of associations between the two personal dispositions “sexual sensation seeking” and “sexual compulsivity,” and use of alcohol and stimulants in a sample of 539 young adults. Men scored higher on measures of sexual compulsivity and sexual sensation seeking than women. Stimulant drug use was associated with a high level of sexually compulsive behaviors. Strong positive associations were also found between sexual sens…
Similar processes despite divergent behavior in two commonly used measures of risky decision making
Performance on complex decision-making tasks may depend on a multitude of processes. Two such tasks, the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART), are of particular interest because they are associated with real world risky behavior, including illegal drug use. We used cognitive models to disentangle underlying processes in both tasks. Whereas behavioral measures from the IGT and BART were uncorrelated, cognitive models reveal…
A Self-Regulatory Model of Behavioral Disinhibition in Late Adolescence: Integrating Personality Traits, Externalizing Psychopathology, and Cognitive Capacity
Two samples with heterogeneous prevalence of externalizing psychopathology were used to investigate the structure of self-regulatory models of behavioral disinhibition and cognitive capacity. Consistent with expectations, structural equation modeling in the first sample (N=541) showed a hierarchical model with 3 lower order factors of impulsive sensation seeking, antisociality/unconventionality, and lifetime externalizing problem counts, with a b…
The Effects of Impulsivity, Sexual Arousability, and Abstract Intellectual Ability on Men’s and Women’s Go/No-Go Task Performance
The Effects of Acute Ethanol Consumption on Sexual Response and Sexual Risk-Taking Intent
A year in the college life: Evidence for the social investment hypothesis via trait self-control and alcohol consumption
The Emperor Has No Clothes: A Review of the ‘Pornography Addiction’ Model
The Impact of Gain- and Loss-Framed Messages on Young Adults’ Sexual Decision Making: An Experimental Study
A New Perspective on “Drinking” Self: A Network Approach to Characterizing Drinking-Related Changes in Personality
Background Previous research suggests that self-knowledge, particularly perceptions of oneself as a “drinker,” may influence the development and progression of alcohol use and related problems, such as binge drinking. While existing studies have provided empirical evidence for the importance of assessing drinking self-perception within the five-factor model of personality framework, further examination with novel analytic methods, such as network…
‘I am a Drinker’: A Content, Correlational, and Factor Analytic Study of Measures of Drinker Identity Among College Students
Background: Drinker identity research has proliferated over the last decade, resulting in 10 self-report questionnaire measures of this construct. However, it is unknown to what extent these measures accurately reflect the theorized multi-dimensional conceptualization of drinker identity. Objectives: The current study set out to investigate and compare these different measures using content, correlational, and factor analyses. A content analysis …
Social/Party Incentives Increase the Risk of Heavier Alcohol Use in Impulsive Individuals
BACKGROUND: Impulsivity is associated with excessive drinking and negative alcohol-related consequences. However, studies have not used an in-vivo approach (i.e., daily diary) to examine how the effect of impulsivity on excessive alcohol use could be moderated by context-specific mechanisms, such as incentives. METHOD: = 102, 61.8% females), who, for two weeks, responded to questions about their total number of drinks and the incentives (alcohol …
Impulsive Decision Reduction Training for Youth (IDRT-Y) to Promote Adaptive Decision-Making: Results from a Pilot Trial
Decision biases contribute to disruptive behavior, substance use, and other risky behaviors in youth, yet few interventions directly target decision-making processes to promote adaptive outcomes. This study adapted Impulsive Decision Reduction Training for Youth (IDRT-Y) from an adult model to improve adolescent decision-making and reduce risky behaviors. In an open pilot trial, 26 youth (ages 10-17) with frequent, impairing risky behaviors were …
Concerns About Sexual Assault in Undergraduate Students Are Greater in Women and Risky Drinking Contexts: Relevance for Drinking Habits, Problems, and Decisions
Background: This study investigated sex differences in concerns about unwanted sexual advances (CAUSA) in drinking contexts that varied in terms of the familiarity of people and location, and size of the party. Hypotheses tested were: women have more CAUSA than men, CAUSA are higher in unfamiliar large events than familiar small events for women more than men, and CAUSA will predict decisions to drink less especially in unfamiliar contexts. Metho…
Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Personality (6 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (6 works) · Poison control (5 works)