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Cynthia D. Mohr

Cynthia D. Mohr

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Dr. Mohr’s research concerns psychosocial influences on subjective well-being and physical health and in particular the processes by which positive and negative facets of interpersonal relationships and emotions exert effects on health. To examine these processes, many of Dr. Mohr’s research studies draw on daily process methodology, which are time-intensive investigations where people record experiences, thoughts, moods, and behaviors daily or multiple times a day, for periods ranging from a week to a month. Dr. Mohr has also drawn on dyadic designs and cross-cultural collaborations to examine the nature of interpersonal influence in her research work.

One area of particular focus to Dr. Mohr’s research work has been the area of negative emotional experiences and alcohol consumption, based on motivational models of alcohol consumption that specify the conditions under which people consume alcohol and motivations therein. She has examined the day-to-day fluctuations between positive and negative experiences and subsequent alcohol consumption, and how these relationships vary as a function of social context. Further, she has considered the potential for positive experiences to buffer the effects of negative experiences on drinking.

Dr. Mohr's current research projects include a focus on Veteran family health and well-being. Specifically, Dr. Mohr is collaborating with Dr. Leslie Hammer on the Department of Defense funded Study for Employment Retention of Veterans (SERVe) Project. The aim of SERVe is to conduct a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of Veteran Supportive Supervisory Training (VSST) with pre- and post-training evaluation. VSST focuses on increasing support for veterans and their families in the civilian workforce with positive impacts expected at both home and work. As part of this larger study, Dr. Mohr is directing the Daily Family Study (DFS) in which veterans participating in SERVe and their spouses/cohabiting partners are invited to complete a brief daily online survey regarding daily activities, work, family and social life.

Primary Interests:

  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Close Relationships
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Health Psychology
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Person Perception

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Journal Articles:

  • Armeli, S., Tennen, H., Todd, M., Carney, A., Mohr, C., Affleck, G., & Hromi, A. (2003). A daily process examination of the stress-response dampening effects of alcohol. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 17, 266-276.
  • Arpin, S., Mohr, C.D., & Brannan, D. (2015). Perceived Isolation, Social Integration, and Health Behavior: A Daily Process Examination of Responses to Loneliness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(5): 615-628. DOI: 10.1177/0146167215569722
  • Brannan, D., Biswas-Diener, R., Mohr, C., Mortazavi, S. & Stein, N., (2013). Friends and family: A cross-cultural investigation of social support and subjective well-being. Journal of Positive Psychology, 8 (1), 65-75.
  • Kenny, D. A., Mohr, C. D., & Levesque, M. J. (2001). A social relations variance partitioning of dyadic behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 128-141.
  • Mohr, C., Arpin, S., McCabe, C., & Haverly, S. (2016). Capitalization and alcohol use: A moderated mediation model of relationship status, capitalization, drinking motives and alcohol consumption. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 35(4), 300-320.
  • Mohr, C. D., Armeli, S., Ohannessian, C. M., Tennen, H., Carney, M. A., Affleck, G., & Del Boca, F. K. (2003). Daily interpersonal experiences and distress: Are women more vulnerable? Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 22, 393-423.
  • Mohr, C. D., Armeli, S., Tennen, H., Carney, M., Affleck, G., & Hromi, A. (2001). Daily interpersonal experiences, context and alcohol consumption: Crying in your beer and toasting good times? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 489-500.
  • Mohr, C.D., Armeli, S., Tennen, H., Temple, M., Todd, M., Clark, J., & Carney, M.A. (2005). Moving beyond the keg party: A daily process investigation of college student drinking motivations. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19 (4), 392-403.
  • Mohr, C.D., Arpin, S. & McCabe, C. (2015). Daily affect variability and context-specific alcohol consumption. Drug and Alcohol Review, 34(6), 581-587. doi: 10.1111/dar.12253.
  • Mohr, C. D., Averna, S., Kenny, D. A., & Del Boca, F. K. (2001). “Getting by” or “Getting high with a little help from my friends”: An examination of adult alcoholics’ friendships. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 62, 637-645.
  • Mohr, C.D., Brannan, D., Wendt, S., Jacobs, L., Wright, R. & Wang, M. (2013). Daily mood-drinking slopes as predictors: A new take on drinking motives and related outcomes. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27(4), 944-955.
  • Mohr, C. D., & Kenny, D. A. (2006). The how and why of disagreement among perceivers: An exploration of Person Models. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42(3), 337-349.
  • Mohr, C. D., McCabe, C. T., Haverly, S. N., Hammer, L. B., & Carlson, K. F. (2018). Drinking motives and alcohol use: The SERVe Study of US current and former service members. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 79(1), 79-87.

Other Publications:

  • Mohr, C. D., Armeli, S., Tennen, H., & Todd, M. (2009). The complexities of modeling mood-drinking relationships: Lessons learned from daily process research (pp. 189-216). In J. Kassel (Ed.), Substance Abuse and Emotion. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Courses Taught:

  • Health Psychology
  • Interpersonal Relationships
  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • Social Psychology

Cynthia D. Mohr
Department of Psychology
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, Oregon 97207-0751
United States of America

  • Phone: (503) 725-3981
  • Fax: (503) 725-3904

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