Ashley Linden-Carmichael
Biography
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services. She received her PhD from Old Dominion University in applied experimental psychology in 2016. Prior to joining the University of Oregon in 2024, Dr. Linden-Carmichael was faculty for 8 years at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State and Assistant Training Director for their NIH T32 Prevention and Methodology Training Program.
Dr. Linden-Carmichael's research aims to identify patterns, underlying mechanisms, and consequences of higher-risk alcohol use among young adults. Her research leverages intensive longitudinal data and nuanced analytic methods to uncover ages, subgroups, and moments that confer greatest risk. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed journals, a book, and several book chapters. She has served as Principal or Co-Investigator on multiple federally funded grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Linden-Carmichael is a Field Editor for the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs and an editorial board member for Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Commitment to Mentoring:
Dr. Linden-Carmichael is highly committed to the professional and intellectual development of junior scientists. As a mentor, she uses a scaffolding approach tailored to individual student needs and career aspirations. She aims to help students develop their own sense of ‘productivity’ and ‘success’ to foster a sustainable work-life balance and avoid burnout. As her research is highly multidisciplinary and uses a range of methodological approaches, she provides numerous training opportunities to allow students to see the process through conceptualizing a research question, collecting a variety of data, and executing basic and sophisticated statistical analyses.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB):
Dr. Linden-Carmichael has a strong commitment to promote DEIB. As a researcher, much of her work focuses on understanding the unique social, environmental, and motivational predictors of substance use among non-college-attending young adults, an underserved community who are disproportionately from minoritized racial-ethnic groups. She also has explored how daily experiences of belongingness on campus differentially confer risk for alcohol use outcomes for students who identify as first-generation, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ as well as their intersectionality. As a teacher and mentor, she strives to create an inclusive classroom and laboratory environment in which underrepresented voices are elevated and embraced. She aims to enrich students’ learning by creating a multiculturally diverse and antiracist learning environment. Finally, she participates in DEIB service efforts in a number of ways including serving on diversity committees, reviewing graduate research awards for studying health and challenges faced by diverse and oppressed populations, and mentoring graduate students on social justice and health equity research. She is committed to continuing these practices as a new faculty member at UO.
Education
Ph.D., 2016, Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA)
Major: Applied Experimental Psychology
Advisor: Cathy Lau-Barraco, Ph.D.
M.S., 2012, Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA)
Major: Experimental Psychology
B.S., 2010, Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant, MI)
Majors: Psychology, Sociology
Honors and Awards
2017 - Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program Award, National Institutes of Health
2017 - Junior Investigator Award, Research Society on Alcohol
2016 - Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award Finalist, Research Society on Alcohol
2014 - National Research Service Award (F31), National Institutes of Health
Publications
Boness, C. L., & Linden-Carmichael, A. N. (2024). Interpretations and experiences of subjective effects for alcohol alone and when combined with cannabis: A mixed-methods approach. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 32, 329-339. doi: 10.1037/pha0000685
Van Doren, N.*, Bray, B.C., Soto, J. A., & Linden-Carmichael, A. N. (2024). Associations between day-level affect profiles and same-day substance use among young adults. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 38, 323-333. doi: 10.1037/adb0000979
Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Chiang, S.-C.*, Miller, S. E.*, & Mogle, J. (2023). A latent profile analysis of blackout drinking behavior among young adults. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 248, 109905. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109905
Stull, S. W.*, Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Scott, C. K., Dennis, M. L., & Lanza, S. T. (2023). Time-varying effect modeling with intensive longitudinal data: Examining dynamic links among craving, affect, self-efficacy, and substance use during addiction recovery. Addiction, 118, 2220-2232. doi: 10.1111/add.16284
Linden-Carmichael, A. N., & Calhoun, B. H.* (2022). Measuring subjective alcohol effects in daily life using contemporary young adult language. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 30, 151-158. doi: 10.1037/pha0000447
Cloutier, R. M.*, Calhoun, B. H.*, & Linden-Carmichael, A. N. (2022). Associations of mode of administration on cannabis consumption and subjective intoxication in daily life. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 36, 67-77. doi: 10.1037/adb0000726
Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Van Doren, N.*, Bray, B. C., Jackson, K., & Lanza, S. T. (2022). Stress and affect as daily risk factors for substance use patterns: An application of latent class analysis for daily diary data. Prevention Science, 23, 598-607. doi: 10.1007/s11121-021-01305-9
Cloutier, R. M.*, Calhoun, B. H.*, Lanza, S. T., & Linden-Carmichael, A. N. (2022). Assessing subjective cannabis effects in daily life with contemporary young adult language. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 230, 109205. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109205
Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Allen, H. K.*, & Lanza, S. T. (2021). The socio-environmental context of simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use among young adults: Examining day-level associations. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40, 647-657. doi: 10.1111/dar.13213
Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Allen, H. K.*, & Lanza, S. T. (2021). The language of subjective alcohol effects: Do young adults vary in their feelings of intoxication? Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 29, 670-678. doi: 10.1037/pha0000416
Linden-Carmichael, A. N., & Wardell, J. D. (2021). Combined use of alcohol and cannabis: Introduction to the Special Issue. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 35, 621-627. doi: 10.1037/adb0000772
Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Masters, L. D., & Lanza, S. T. (2020). “Buzzwords”: Crowd-sourcing and quantifying U.S. young adult terminology for subjective effects of alcohol and marijuana use. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 28, 632-637.
Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Van Doren, N.*, Masters, L. D., & Lanza, S. T. (2020). Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use in daily life: Implications for level of use, subjective intoxication, and positive and negative consequences. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 34, 447-453. doi: 10.1037/adb0000556
Research
Dr. Linden-Carmichael's research is aimed at understanding the within-person dynamics of psychosocial risk (e.g., motivations for use) and protective factors and consequences of high-risk alcohol use patterns among late adolescents and young adults. Most of her work relies on the use of intensive longitudinal data (daily diaries, ecological momentary assessments) and nuanced analytic methods (time-varying effect modeling, mixture modeling). She also incorporates qualitative approaches to ensure that our measurement best captures young adults’ subjective experiences of alcohol use, and aims to identify the optimal technology to ensure we effectively deliver intervention content to the right individual at the right time. Her current work focuses on (1) examining etiology of simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use, (2) uncovering the role of high-risk alcohol use (e.g., high-intensity drinking, blackout drinking) on next-day cognitive functioning, and (3) developing best practices for using an innovative statistical method (multilevel latent class analysis) to capture the heterogeneity of daily substance use patterns among young adults. She is a strong advocate for a team science approach to move the field forward and has benefitted from numerous interdisciplinary collaborations.