Dr Amber Copeland
Department of Psychology
Research Associate


A.copeland@sheffield.ac.uk
Cathedral Court
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Dr Amber Copeland
Department of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
Department 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
- 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.
- The association between meaning in life and harmful drinking is mediated by individual differences in self-control and alcohol value. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 11.
Chapters
- Recovery from addiction: A synthesis of perspectives from behavioral economics, psychology, and decision modeling, The Handbook of Alcohol Use (pp. 563-579). Elsevier
Preprints
- Recovery from nicotine addiction: a diffusion model decomposition of value-based decision-making in current smokers and ex-smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research.