James Epps
Associate Professor Lakeland
Contact
Office: PCD 1106
Phone: 813/974-0388
Email:
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Teaching
Ph.D. Area: Clinical
Research
Impact of contextual factors on cognitive precursors to anger and aggression
Current Courses
Presentations
Epps, J., Edington*, M., Hancock*, D., White*, A., & Fickey*, M.
(1997). Alcohol and aggression network activations. Presented
at the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of
Behavior Therapy at Miami Beach, FL.
Collins-Boyd*, J. & Epps, J. (1996). The effect of alcohol and
expectancies on hostile attributional bias in adults. Presented
at the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of
Behavior Therapy at New York, NY.
Edington*, M. & Epps, J. (1996). Alcohol myopia, selective
attention and expectancy interference. Presented at the meeting
of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy at
New York, Ny.
Epps, J. & Quinones*, B. (1996). Attributions of hostile intent
with known vs. unknown protagonists. Presented at the meeting
of the Association for the advancement of Behavior Therapy at
New York, NY.
Epps, J., Steinberg*, H. R., & Hunter*, B. (1995). The alcohol and
aggression expectancy questionnaire: Exploratory factor
analysis. Paper presented at the meeting of the Research
Society on Alcoholism, Steamboat Springs, CO.
Epps, J., Monk, C., Savage, S., & Marlatt, G. A. (1994, June).
Improving the validity of the balanced placebo design. A paper
presented at the meeting of the Research Society on
Alcoholism , Maui, HI.
Epps, J., Baer, J., Kivlahan, D., & Marlatt, G. A. (1993, January).
Alcohol use patterns and history of aggressive vs. nonaggressive
conduct disorder. Paper presented at the International
Conference on the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors ,
Albuquerque, NM.
Epps, J., & Kendall, P. C. (1992, November). Hostile attributional
bias in adults: Extending a cognitive-behavioral construct.
Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for the
Advancement of Behavior Therapy , Boston, MA.
Epps, J., Ronan, K. R., & Kendall, P. C. (1987, November). Moderatory
variables in a cognitive-behavioral treatment for conduct
disordered children. Paper presented at the meeting of the
Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy ,
Boston, MA.
Asterisk denotes student under my supervision
Recent Publications
Epps, J. (in press). Ethnoviolence. In C. Moose (ED.) Racial
and Ethnic Relations in America. Pasadena: Salem Press.
Epps, J. (in press). Ethnoviolence on college campuses. In C.
Moose (Ed.) Racial and Ethnic Relations in America.
Pasadena: Salem Press
Epps, J., Carlin, A. S., & Ward, N. G. (in press). Adult anger
expression and childhood physical abuse history: The effects of
event memory versus sel-labeling. Journal of Mental Health
and Aging.
Epps, J., & Kendall, P. C. (in press). Hostile attributional bias in
adults. Cognitive Therapy & Research .
Renk, K., Phares, V., & Epps, J. (in press) The relationship
between parental anger and behavior problems in children and
adolescents. Journal of Family Psychology.
Epps, J., Monk*, C., Savage*, S., & Marlatt, G. A. (1998).
Improving credibility of instructions in teh balanced placebo
design: A misattribution manipulation. Addictive Behaviors,
23(4), 427-435.
Epps, J. B. & Kendall, P. C. (1995). Hostile attributional bias in
adults. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 19(2), 159-178.
Hill-Epps, P., Heiman, J., & Epps, J. (1995). Subjective evaluation
of marital satisfaction in depressed and non-depressed couples.
Journal of Mental Health and Aging, 1(2), 97-109.
Kendall, P. C., Ronan, K. R., & Epps, J. (1991). Aggression in
children/adolescents: Cognitive-behavioral treatment perspectives
(pp. 341-360). In D. Pepler & K. Rubins (Eds.) Development
and treatment of childhood aggression , Hillsdale, NJ: The
Earlscourt Symposium.
Saxon, A. J., Calsyn, D. A., Wells, E. A., Jackson, T. R., Wrede, A.
F., & Epps, J. (1991). HIV risk status of new methadone
admissions. Published proceedings of the Committee on
Problems in Drug Dependence Annual Meeting , Palm Beach, FL,
June, 1991.
Kendall, P. C., & Epps, J. (1990). Medical treatments. In M. Johnston
& L. Wallace (Eds.) Stress and medical procedures , Oxford,
England: Oxford University Press, pp. 99-119.
Kendall, P. C., McLeer, S., Reber, M., Epps, J., & Ronan, K. R. (1990).
A cognitive-behavioral treatment for conduct disordered children.
Cognitive Therapy and Research , 14(3), 279-295.
Kendall, P. C., Howard, B. L., & Epps, J. (1988). The anxious
child: Cognitive-behavioral treatment strategies. Behavior
Modification , 12(2), 281-310.