Dr Amber Copeland

Department of Psychology

Research Associate

Amber Copeland

A.copeland@sheffield.ac.uk

Cathedral Court

Full contact details

Dr Amber Copeland
Department of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT

Qualifications

PhD: Psychology (University of Sheffield)
MSc: Research Methods in Psychology (University of Liverpool)
BSc: Psychology (University of Liverpool)

Research interests

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

Journal articles

Copeland A, Jones A, Acuff SF, Murphy JG & Field M (2022) Meaning in life: investigating protective and risk factors for harmful alcohol consumption. Addiction Research and Theory.
Copeland A, Stafford T, Acuff SF, Murphy JG & Field M (2022) 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.
Copeland A, Stafford T & Field M (2022) 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).
Pennington CR, Jones A, Bartlett JE, Copeland A & Shaw DJ (2021) Raising the bar: improving methodological rigour in cognitive alcohol research. Addiction, 116(11), 3243-3251.
Copeland A, Jones A & Field M (2020) The association between meaning in life and harmful drinking is mediated by individual differences in self-control and alcohol value. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 11.
Copeland A, Stafford T & Field M () Recovery from nicotine addiction: A diffusion model decomposition of value-based decision-making in current smokers and ex-smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
Dora J, Copeland A, Field M & Kevin K () Modeling the value-based decision to consume alcohol in response to emotional experiences. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Chapters

Copeland A, Stafford T & Field M (2021) Recovery from addiction: A synthesis of perspectives from behavioral economics, psychology, and decision modeling, The Handbook of Alcohol Use (pp. 563-579). Elsevier

Preprints

Copeland A, Stafford T & Field M (2022) Recovery from nicotine addiction: A diffusion model decomposition of value-based decision-making in current smokers and ex-smokers, Center for Open Science.
Dora J, Copeland A, Field M & King KM (2022) Modeling the value-based decision to consume alcohol in response to emotional experiences, Center for Open Science.