Faculty

Sarah Fischer , Ph.D. Assistant Professor Program Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2007 Office: Room 100 Ph: (706) 542-3017 Fax: (706) 542-3275 Email: fischer@uga.edu Dr. Fischer's detailed vita (PDF)

Research Interests

The focus of my program of research is on personality traits and psychosocial factors influencing the co-morbidity and maintenance of addictive behavior patterns. Specifically, my research investigates how different aspects of the broad trait impulsivity affect substance use and eating disordered behavior, such as binge eating and purging. I am especially interested in how the personality trait of impulsivity affects these behaviors in the context of negative mood states and in conjunction with outcome expectancies for addictive behaviors. A second interest is in mindfulness based interventions, as they may be particularly relevant for harmful behaviors that occur in the context of emotion dysregulation.