Sayette, Michael

Professor, Dept. of Psychology
PhD Rutgers-The State University
Clinical Program, Biological and Health Program, Clinical/Health Program

Contact

4303 Sennott Square
412-624-8799
Fax: 412-624-5407
sayette@pitt.edu

Research Interests: psychological theories of alcohol use and abuse, alcohol and stress, cigarette smoking, drug craving, cognitive and affective processes in addiction

Accepting Graduate Students: Yes

Selected Publications

Baumann, S.B., & Sayette, M.A., (in press). Smoking cues in a virtual world provoke craving in cigarette smokers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Kirchner, T.R., Sayette. M.A., Cohn, J.F., Moreland, R.L..& Levine, J.M. (in press). Effects of alcohol on group formation among male social drinkers. Journal of Studies on Alcohol.
Gwaltney, C.J., Shiffman, S., & Sayette, M.A. (2005). Situational correlates of abstinence self-efficacy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 649-660.
Sayette, M.A, Loewenstein, G., Kirchner, T.R., & Travis, T. (2005). Effects of smoking urge on temporal cognition. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19, 88-93.
Sayette, M. (2004). Self-Regulatory Failure and Addiction. In R.F.Baumeister and K.D. Vohs (Eds.), Handbook of Self-regulation. (pp. 447-465) Guilford Press: New York.
Wilson, S.J., Sayette, M.A. & Fiez, J.A. (2004). Prefrontal responses to drug cues: A Neurocognitive analysis. Nature Neuroscience. 7, 211-214.
Sayette, M.A., Wertz, J.M., Martin, C.S., Cohn, J.F., Perrott, M.A., & Hobel, J. (2003). Effects of smoking opportunity on cue-elicited urge: A facial coding analysis. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 11, 218-227.
Waters, A.J., Shiffman, S., Sayette, M.A., Paty, J., Gwaltney, C , & Balabanis, M. (2003). Attentional Bias Predicts Outcome in Smoking Cessation. Health Psychology, 22, 378-387.
Sayette, M.A., Martin, C.S., Hull, J.G., Wertz, J.M, & Perrott, M.A. (2003). The effects of nicotine deprivation on craving response covariation in smokers. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 110-118.
Sayette, M.A., Martin, C.S., Perrott, M.A., & Wertz, J.M. (2001). Parental alcoholism and the effects of alcohol on semantic priming. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 9, 409-417.
Wertz, J.M. & Sayette, M.A. (2001). A review of the effects of perceived drug use opportunity on self-reported urge. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 9, 3-13.
Sayette, M.A., Shiffman, S., Tiffany, S.T., Niaura, R.S., Martin, C.S., & Shadel, W.G. (2000). The measurement of drug craving. Addiction, 95, S189-S210.
Sayette, M.A., & Parrott, D.J. (1999). Effects of olfactory stimuli on urge reduction in smokers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 7, 151-159.
Sayette, M.A. (1999). Cognitive theory and research. In Leonard, K. & Blane, H. (Eds.), Psychological theories of drinking and alcoholism (2nd Ed.) (pp. 247-291). New York, Guilford.
Sayette, M.A. (1993). An appraisal-disruption model of alcohol's effects on stress responses in social drinkers. Psychological Bulletin, 114, 459-476.

Honors and Awards

Distinguished Lecturer, German-American Academic Council (1999)

Labs

Alcohol and Smoking Research Laboratory

Graduate Student Advisees