Faculty Scholar

Craig R. Colder, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Park Hall, Box 604110
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4110
Phone: 716-645-3650 Ext. 218
Fax: 716-645-3801
Email: ccolder@acsu.buffalo.edu

Craig Colder completed his B.S. in Psychology at St. Lawrence University, and then worked as a research assistant at the Laboratory of Developmental Psychology at the National Institute of Mental Health where he worked on several studies examining the impact of maternal depression on child development. He did his graduate training with Dr. Laurie Chassin at Arizona State University where he studied the development of substance abuse in children of alcoholics. Craig completed his pre-doctoral internship at Duke University Medical Center, receiving his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1994. He stayed at Duke as a Research Associate working on the Coping Power Program, an intervention that targeted aggressive boys with the goal of preventing substance abuse. As a National Institute on Drug Abuse post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago Prevention Research, he studied quantitative methods. Craig moved to the Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo in 2000, where he is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training. His research program focuses on initiation and escalation of adolescent substance use within a developmental framework. Craig is currently the principal investigator of two federally funded projects. One examines how shifts in appetitive motivation during adolescence converge with community and peer contexts to influence both implicit and explicit beliefs supportive of substance use and substance use. The other examines how shifts in appetitive motivation during adolescence interact with behavior problems and family and peer context to influence substance use.