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Craig Colder is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system. He is based in the College of Arts and Sciences and leads the Child and Adolescent Family Development Laboratory. His work integrates developmental, clinical, and cognitive perspectives to understand risk and resilience in youth.
His research focuses on the development of adolescent substance use and aggression, examining influences at multiple levels: individual (e.g., temperament, personality), family (e.g., parenting styles, parent-adolescent communication), and community (e.g., neighborhood disadvantage). He employs advanced longitudinal modeling techniques, including bifactor models and within-person analyses, to disentangle complex developmental pathways.
Colder’s recent publications span topics such as the validation of new assessment tools like the Parenting Styles Circumplex Inventory (PSCI), neurocognitive correlates of executive functioning in adolescence, and the role of effortful control in mitigating alcohol-related consequences. His work frequently appears in high-impact journals in developmental psychology, addiction science, and cognitive neuroscience.
- SUNY Distinguished Professor
He mentors graduate students as Director of Graduate Studies and has been involved in numerous clinical and community-based studies, including interventions targeting hazardous drinking during the transition to parenthood and bystander approaches to reduce sexual assault risk. His research often incorporates ecological momentary assessment and multi-informant designs to capture dynamic processes in real time.
