Kate Carey

About

Kate B. Carey is a Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and serves as the Director of the Behavioral and Social Health Sciences PhD Program at Brown University. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1985 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in addiction and behavioral medicine at the Miriam Hospital/Brown University. Her research focuses on motivation to change substance use, the application of screening and brief intervention models for at-risk drinkers, the influence of social norms on drinking behavior, and the contribution of alcohol intoxication to sexual risk behavior. Her work aims to develop and evaluate interventions to reduce alcohol misuse and associated risky behaviors, particularly among college students and young adults. Through her extensive research, she has contributed to understanding the behavioral and social factors influencing substance use and sexual health, and she has been involved in developing innovative approaches such as motivational interviewing, normative feedback, and digital health interventions to promote healthier behaviors.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Medicine
• Organic chemistry
• Toxicology
• Internal medicine
• Biology
• Environmental health
• Clinical psychology
• Psychology
• Developmental psychology

Selected publications

• The impact of menthol flavoring in combusted tobacco on alternative product purchasing: A pilot study using the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace

  Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 2020 · 29 citations

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• Characterizing alcohol consumption and positive and negative consequences during simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use events

  Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs · 2023-10-10 · 19 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: Young adults who engage in simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use report heavy use of both substances. Event-level studies examining differences between consequences experienced on simultaneous use compared with single substance use days have been mixed. Although studies often control for alcohol use levels, few have examined how quantity of alcohol may influence consequences experienced on simultaneous use days. Furthermore, little research has examined the relationship between simult…

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• Technology-Based Substance Use Interventions for Emerging Adults and College Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction · 2024-12-26 · 4 citations

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  Objective: To synthesize randomized controlled trial evidence on technology-based interventions' (TBIs) effectiveness for substance use among emerging adults (EA)/college students (CS). Methods: Nine electronic databases were searched. Two reviewers independently screened studies, extracted data, and assessed evidence quality. We used robust variance estimation in meta-regression for effect size synthesis and moderator analysis. Results: Based on 130 studies, the overall between-group effect siz…

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• World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels Among Mandated College Students: Associations with Alcohol Use, Mental Health, and Academic Performance

  Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs · 2024-02-16 · 4 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking levels (i.e., low, moderate, high, or very high risk) have been used as a drinking-reduction endpoint in clinical trials. Yet, prior work has not attempted to quantify reductions in WHO risk levels among mandated students, who may also benefit from reduced drinking. We sought to validate WHO risk drinking levels in differentiating students' alcohol-related outcomes, depressive symptoms, and academic performance. Defining risk via typical dri…

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• The Drinking Dashboard for alcohol‐induced blackout: A randomized pilot trial

  Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research · 2025-05-30 · 2 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  BACKGROUND: Alcohol-induced "blackouts," or memory loss for events that occur while drinking, are prevalent and problematic among young adults. They also increase motivation to change. This study developed and pilot-tested a theoretically informed digital health intervention ("Drinking Dashboard") for alcohol-induced blackouts. METHODS: Data were collected using qualitative (Study 1) and quantitative (Study 2) methods. Participants in both studies were young adults (ages 18-30 years) across the…

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Recent grants

• Correcting Exaggerated Drinking Norms with a Mobile Message Delivery System

  NIH · $416k · 2017–2019

• NIH Grant K02AA015574

  NIH · $931k · 2010

• NIH Grant R01DA010010

  NIH · $826k · 2002

Frequent coauthors

• Michael P. Carey

  Brown University

  346 shared

• Jennifer E. Merrill

  145 shared

• Angelo M. DiBello

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  115 shared

• Mary Beth Miller

  University of Missouri

  104 shared

• Lori A. J. Scott‐Sheldon

  National Institute of Mental Health

  98 shared

• Brian Borsari

  79 shared

• Stephen A. Maisto

  Syracuse University

  67 shared

• Peter A. Vanable

  Syracuse University

  65 shared

Labs

• Kate Carey's LabPI

  N/A

Education

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

  Vanderbilt University

  1985

• Other, Addiction and Behavioral Medicine

  Miriam Hospital/Brown University

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