Robert J. Wellman,, R. J. Wellman (0000-0003-3653-9545)

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Psychologist with specialty in addictive behaviors. Research interests in end-of-life decision making and in tobacco addiction (underlying physiological and behavioral processes, initiation and maintenance in adolescents & adults, measurement issues in classification and diagnosis, effects of media on initiation and maintenance of tobacco use, effective cessation strategies).

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University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School: Worcester, MA, US

2019-05-15 to present | Professor (Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, Division of Preventive & Behavioral Medicine)

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Robert J. Wellman,, R. J. Wellman

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3653-9545

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University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School: Worcester, MA, US

University of Massachusetts Medical School: Worcester, MA, US

University of Massachusetts Medical School: Worcester, MA, US

Fitchburg State University: Fitchburg, MA, US

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University of Connecticut: Storrs, CT, US

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American Academy of Pediatrics: Chicago, Illinois, US

American Academy of Pediatrics: Chicago, Illinois, US

Works (50 of 75)

Identifying high school smokers likely to persist in smoking at age 31

Natural course of co-use of alcohol and cannabis in adolescents and young adults in Montréal, Canada.

Who mixes tobacco with cannabis and does mixing relate to nicotine dependence?

Depressive Symptoms, Alcohol Beliefs and Heavy Episodic Drinking in Adolescents

Pediatric Resident Training in Tobacco Control and the Electronic Health Record

Can Asking Adolescents About Being Drunk and Their Subjective Experience of Intoxication Help in Screening for Risky Drinking?

Discrete time measures versus trajectories of drinking frequency across adolescence as predictors of binge drinking in young adulthood: a longitudinal investigation

Does use of other tobacco products change when cigarette smoking status changes: A descriptive study of young adults

Untangling Influences in the Longitudinal Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Drinking Frequency in High School

Intensity and frequency of physical activity and high blood pressure in adolescents: A longitudinal study

Single-parent status and smoke-free home rules among daily smokers

Parental Cannabis Use Is Associated with Cannabis Initiation and Use in Offspring

Reasons for quitting smoking in young adult cigarette smokers

Letter to the Editor Regarding “Students’ Cigarette Smoking and the Perceived Nicotine Content of Their E-cigarettes”

Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Depressive Symptoms in Children: A Longitudinal Study

Sex Differences in Attaining Cigarette Smoking and Nicotine Dependence Milestones Among Novice Smokers

Gender differences in risk factors for cigarette smoking initiation in childhood

Predictors of Cigarette Smoking Initiation in Early, Middle, and Late Adolescence

Measures of nicotine dependence in adolescents: An update of the evidence 2000–2010

Reasons Young Smokers Do Not Use NRT Even When it is Available Free-of-Charge: An Exploratory Study

Predictors of the Onset of Cigarette Smoking

E-cigarettes: addressing gaps in knowledge

Relationship between early symptoms of alcohol craving and binge drinking 2.5 years later

Relationships Between Current and Past Binge Drinking and Systolic Blood Pressure in Young Adults

Whither the e-cigarette?

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Autonomy over Tobacco Scale (AUTOS) in adults

Item Response Theory analysis of the Autonomy over Tobacco Scale (AUTOS)

Data Dilemmas and Difficult Decisions: On Dealing With Inconsistencies in Self-reports

State-of-the-Art Office-Based Interventions to Eliminate Youth Tobacco Use: The Past Decade

Recalled first reactions to inhaling nicotine predict the level of physical dependence

Cohort Profile: The Nicotine Dependence in Teens (NDIT) Study

Determinants of Sustained Binge Drinking in Young Adults

Sustained Waterpipe Use Among Young Adults

What Aspect of Dependence Does the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence Measure?

A comparison of the Autonomy over Tobacco Scale and the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence

Does progression through the stages of physical addiction indicate increasing overall addiction to tobacco?

Psychometric properties of the autonomy over tobacco scale in German

The natural history and diagnosis of nicotine addiction

A systematic review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual diagnostic criteria for nicotine dependence

Measures of nicotine dependence in adolescents: An update of the evidence 2000-2010

The Autonomy Over Smoking Scale

Assessing college students' autonomy over smoking with the hooked on nicotine checklist

Diminished autonomy over tobacco can appear with the first cigarettes

Imaging brain activation in nicotine-sensitized rats

R-rated film viewing and adolescent smoking

Revue systématique d’essais comparatifs randomisés d’interventions d’abandon du tabac chez les jeunes

Sensitization to nicotine: How the animal literature might inform future human research

Susceptibility to nicotine dependence: The development and assessment of nicotine dependence in youth 2 study

Symptoms of tobacco dependence after brief intermittent use: The development and assessment of nicotine dependence in youth-2 study

The hooked on nicotine checklist: A measure of diminished autonomy over tobacco

Peer review (92 reviews for 22 publications/grants)