Jack Darkes, Ph.D.
Associate Director for the Alcohol & Substance Use Research Institute
Assistant Professor

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Jack Darkes is an associate scholar and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Florida. He also serves as the Associate Director for the Alcohol & Substance Use Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. in December, 1994, from The University of South Florida. He is a licensed Psychologist with the state of Florida and has served as both an outpatient psychotherapist and a psychotherapy supervisor to clinical graduate students for the Psychological Services Center at the USF. He has also volunteered time as a faculty advisor for a student helpline.

Dr. Darkes is a member of the American Psychological Association and Division 50 of the American Psychological Association (Division of Addictions), from which he received an Award for Excellence in Research in 1995. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 1989 through 1991, he was a member of the advisory Council for the USF Campus Alcohol and Drug Resource Center. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board for the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors and also serves as a reviewer for a number of journals.

Dr. Darkes's major research interests include:

• Learning factors and information processing (esp. in Substance Use)
• Empirically-derived alcohol abuse prevention and treatment strategies
• Psychopharmacology and neuropsychology of Substance Use
• Personality, psychological, and neuropsychological assessment
• Psychophysiology
• Learning factors in psychotherapy and behavior modification
• Clinical training and supervision issues

Selected Publications

Goldman, M.S., Darkes, J., Reich, R.R., & Brandon, K.O. (in press). From DNA to conscious thought: The influence of anticipatory processes on human alcohol consumption. In M. Munafo (Ed.) Cognition and Addiction. Oxford University Press: New Your, NY.

Weinberger, A.H., Darkes, J., Del Boca, F.K., & Goldman, M.S. (in press). Items as context: Effects of item order and ambiguity on factor structure and predictive validity. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Goldman, M.S., Reich, R.R., & Darkes (2006). Expectancy as a unifying construct in alcohol-related cognition. In R Wiers & A Stacy (Eds.) Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Greenbaum, P.E., Del Boca, F.K., Darkes, J., Wang, C-P., & Goldman, M.S. (2005). Variation in the drinking trajectories of freshman college students. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 229-238.

Sheffield, F.D., Darkes, J., Del Boca, F.K., & Goldman, M.S. (2005). Binge Drinking and Alcohol-Related Problems Among Community College Students: Implications for Prevention Policy. Journal of American College Health, 54, 137-141.

Darkes, J., Greenbaum, P.E., & Goldman, M.S. (2004). Alcohol expectancy mediation of biopsychosocial risk: Complex patterns of mediation. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 12, 27-38.

Del Boca, F. K., Darkes, J., Greenbaum, P.E., & Goldman, M.S. (2004). Up close and personal: Temporal variability in the drinking of individual college students during their first year. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,72, 155-164.

Goldman, M.S. & Darkes, J. (2004). Alcohol expectancy multi-axial assessment (A.E.Max): A memory network-based approach. Psychological Assessment, 16, 4-15.

Darkes, J., Goldman, M. S., Del Boca, F. K., & Brandon, K. O. (2003). The expectancy challenge: What are the essential elements? Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27, 104A.

Del Boca, F. K., & Darkes, J. (2003). The validity of self-reports of alcohol consumption: State of the science and challenges for research. Addiction, 98 (supplement 2), 1-12.

Reich, R., Noll, J. A., Goldman, M. S., Del Boca, F. K., & Darkes, J. (2003). An Implicit cognitive task for assessing alcohol expectancies: A psychometric analysis. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27, 106A.

Reich, R., Noll, J. A., Goldman, M. S., Del Boca, F. K., & Darkes, J. (2003). A dimensional approach to studying alcohol expectancies through first word responses. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27, 106A.

Steinberg, H. R., Goldman, M. S., Darkes, J., Greenbaum, P. E., & Del Boca, F. K. (2003). The role of individual differences in learning alcohol expectancy associations. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27, 105A.

Weinberger, A. H., Darkes, J., Del Boca, F. K., & Goldman, M. S. (2003). College students' motivations for drinking in bars: Gender and drinker type differences. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27, 105A.

Wiers, R. W., Wood, M. D., Darkes, Jack, Corbin, W. R., Jones, B. T., & Sher, K. J. (2003). Changing expectancies: Cognitive mechanisms and context effects. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27, 186-197.

Del Boca, F.K., Darkes, J., Goldman, M.S., & Smith, G.T. (2002). Advancing the expectancy concept via the interplay between theory and research. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 26, 926-935.

Sheffield, F.D., & Darkes, J. (2002). Alcohol, drug use and drinking problems: A Tri-ethnic comparison among community college students. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 26, 76A.

Baldwin, J.J., Del Boca, F.K., Darkes, J., Goldman, M.S., & Dwyer, T. (2001). Exploring the correspondence between collateral and self-report alcohol use frequency estimates. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 25 (supplement), 136A.

Del Boca, F.K., & Darkes, J. (2001). Is the glass half full or half empty? An evaluation of the status of expectancies as causal agents. Addiction, 96, 1670-1672.

Haas, A.L., Del Boca, F.K., Darkes, J., & Goldman, M.S. (2001). Drinking style as an alternative predictor of alcohol-related problems in college students. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 25 (supplement), 138A.

Sheffield, F.D., Darkes, J., Del Boca, F.K., & Goldman, M.S. (2001). Confirming the structure and validity of the Alcohol Expectancy Inventory - Short Form. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 25 (supplement), 38A.

Sheffield, F.D., Del Boca, F.K., Darkes, J., & Goldman, M.S. (2001, June). Binge drinking, drug use, and alcohol-related problems among community college students. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 25 (supplement), 138A.

Darkes, J., Goldman, M.S. Del Boca, F.K., & Greenbaum, P.E. (2000, June). Evaluating alternative factor structures for alcohol expectancies. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 24(supplement), 67A.

Del Boca, F.K., Greenbaum, P.E., Darkes, J., & Goldman, M.S. (2000, June). Using latent growth curve mixture modeling to investigate college student drinking patters. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 24 (supplement), 133A.

Weinberger, A., Darkes, J., Del Boca, F.K., & Goldman, M.S. (2000, June). Items as context: The effects of item order on factor structure and the prediction of drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 24 (supplement), 133A.

Baldwin, J. J., Darkes, J., Greenbaum, P.E.,& Goldman, M.S. (1999). Alcohol expectancies: A longitudinal examination of structure. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23 (supplement), 33A.

Darkes, J., Greenbaum, P.E., & Goldman, M.S. (1999). Gender and alcohol expectancy structure: Factorial invariance and predictive validity of the AEI-SF. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23 (supplement), 34A.

Goldman, M. S., Darkes, J., & Del Boca, F. K. (1999). Expectancy mediation of biopsychosocial risk for alcohol use and alcoholism. In I. Kirsch (Ed.), How expectancies shape experience (pp. 233-262). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Goldman, M. S., Del Boca, F. K., & Darkes, J. (1999). Alcohol expectancy theory: The application of cognitive neuroscience. In K. Leonard & H. Blane (Eds.), Psychological theories of drinking and alcoholism (pp. 203-246). New York: Guilford Press.

Greenbaum, P.E., Darkes, J., & Goldman, M.S. (1999, June). Alcohol expectancies: Mediators of biopsychosocial risk for drinking? Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23 (supplement), 34A.

Noll, J. A., Steinberg, H.R., Del Boca, F.K., Darkes, J., & Goldman, M.S. (1999, June). First associates to "Alcohol makes one…" in a large college sample. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23 (supplement), 73A.

Darkes, J., & Goldman, M. S. (1998). Expectancy challenge and drinking reduction: Structure and process in expectancy challenge. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 6, 64-76. [Article also abstracted in Clinician's Research Digest, 16(8), 2.]

Darkes, J., Greenbaum, P. E., & Goldman, M. S. (1998). Sensation seeking - disinhibition and alcohol use: Issues of criterion contamination. Psychological Assessment, 10, 71-76.

Darkes, J., Greenbaum, P. E., & Goldman, M. S. (1998). Hierarchical expectancy network structure and the prediction of drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 22 (supplement), 68A.

Del Boca, F. K., Darkes, J., & Goldman, M. S. (1998). Alcohol expectancies and drinking behavior during the first year of college. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 22 (supplement), 68A.

Darkes, J. (1997). The dementias: Diagnosis, management, and research. Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, 42, 358.

Darkes, J, Greenbaum, P. E., & Goldman, M. S. (1997). Hierarchical structure in an alcohol expectancy memory network. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 21(supplement), 54A.

Goldman, M. S., Greenbaum, P. E., & Darkes, J. (1997). A confirmatory test of hierarchical expectancy structure and predictive power: Discriminant validation of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire. Psychological Assessment, 9, 145-157.

Contact Information

University of South Florida
Department of Psychology
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, PCD4118G
Tampa, FL 33620-8200

Phone: 813.974.6963
Fax: 813.974.3409
Email: darkes@cas.usf.edu