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Christian C. Garcia

Asst Professor (F2)

Education/Credentials
  • Ph.D.: University of Florida (Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • M.S. : University of Florida (Psychology)
  • B.S. : University of Florida (Psychology; Family, Youth, and Community Sciences)
  • A.A.: Miami Dade College - The Honors College
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Peer Reviewed Publications

Merrill, Jennifer E; Peterson, Roselyn; Garcia, Christian C; Howe, Lindy K; Carey, Kate B; Barnett, Nancy P; Jackson, Kristina M; Miller, Mary Beth 2026. Protective behavioral strategies and planned drinking relate to high intensity drinking and consequences at the day level. Addictive behaviors, 175 , 108591

Richards, Dylan K; Grubbs, Joshua B; Garcia, Christian C; Pearson, Matthew R; Field, Craig A 2026. Associations of psychological needs with alcohol use and related outcomes. Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 40 2, 176-188

Nixon, Sara Jo; Torres, Samuel A; Boissoneault, Jeff; Garcia, Christian C; Lewis, Ben 2025. Neurobehavioral concomitants of alcohol use in older healthy adults. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 19 , 1693330

Garcia, Christian C; Richards, Dylan K; Tuchman, Felicia R; Hallgren, Kevin A; Kranzler, Henry R; Aubin, Henri-Jean; O'Malley, Stephanie S; Mann, Karl; Aldridge, Arnie; Hoffman, Michaela; Anton, Raymond F; Witkiewitz, Katie 2024. Reductions in World Health Organization risk drinking level are associated with improvements in sleep problems among individuals with alcohol use disorder. Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 59 3,

Witkiewitz, Katie; Garcia, Christian C; Muthén, Bengt O 2024. Subjective stress and any drinking during alcohol treatment: Disentangling within and between person autoregressive effects. Neurobiology of stress, 29 , 100602

Nixon, Sara Jo; Garcia, Christian C; Lewis, Ben 2023. Women's use of alcohol: Neurobiobehavioral concomitants and consequences. Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 70 , 101079

Nixon, Sara Jo; Garcia, Christian C; Lewis, Ben 2023. Age as a potential modulator of alcohol-related deficits. Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), 107 , 12-18

Garcia, Christian C; Lewis, Ben; Nixon, Sara Jo 2022. Racially invariant stimuli may bias outcomes in assessment of emotion processing. Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 36 5, 499-504

Lewis, Ben; Garcia, Christian C; Price, Julianne L; Schweizer, Susanne; Nixon, Sara Jo 2022. Cognitive training in recently-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder improves emotional stroop performance: Evidence from a randomized pilot trial. Drug and alcohol dependence, 231 , 109239

Lewis, Ben; Price, Julianne L; Garcia, Christian C; Ebner, Natalie C; Nixon, Sara Jo 2021. The impact of emotional face stimuli on working memory performance among men and women with alcohol use disorder. Addictive behaviors, 114 , 106731

Garcia, Christian C; Lewis, Ben; Boissoneault, Jeff; Nixon, Sara Jo 2020. Effects of Age and Acute Moderate Alcohol Consumption on Electrophysiological Indices of Attention. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 81 3, 372-383

Lewis, Ben; Garcia, Christian C; Bohan, Riley; Nixon, Sara Jo 2020. Impact of polysubstance use on social and non-affective cognitive performance among treatment-seeking individuals with alcohol use disorders. Addictive behaviors, 106 , 106359

Lewis, Ben; Garcia, Christian C; Boissoneault, Jeff; Price, Julianne L; Nixon, Sara Jo 2019. Working Memory Performance Following Acute Alcohol: Replication and Extension of Dose by Age Interactions. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 80 1, 86-95

Lewis, Ben; Price, Julianne L; Garcia, Christian C; Nixon, Sara Jo 2019. Emotional Face Processing among Treatment-Seeking Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorders: Investigating Sex Differences and Relationships with Interpersonal Functioning. Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 54 4, 361-369

Lewis, Ben; Garcia, Christian C; Nixon, Sara Jo 2018. Drinking patterns and adherence to "low-risk" guidelines among community-residing older adults. Drug and alcohol dependence, 187 , 285-291

Lewis, Ben; Hoffman, Lauren; Garcia, Christian C; Nixon, Sara Jo 2018. Race and socioeconomic status in substance use progression and treatment entry. Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse, 17 2, 150-166