Aesoon Park, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Email: aepark@syr.edu
Phone: (315) 443-2391
Address: 511 Huntington Hall

Education:

M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Korea University, South Korea

Internship, Yong-In Mental Hospital, South Korea

M.A. & Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia

Internship, Yale University

Certification/ licensure:

Licensed Psychologist (Class II) in South Korea

Awards:

Mark H. Thelen Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008
Graduate Poster Award, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, Association for Psychological Science, 2005
Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award, Research Society on Alcoholism, 2004

Research Interest:

My research interests focus on the interplay between person and environment as it affects substance use and related risky behaviors within developmental contexts.   I am also interested in statistical techniques that account for the multi-level and time-varying nature of human development (e.g., structural equation model, multilevel model, latent mixture model). 

Representative Publications:

Park, A., Sher, K. J., & Krull, J. L. (in press). Selection and socialization of risky drinking during the college transition: the importance of micro-environments associated with specific living units. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Park, A., Sher, K. J., Wood, P. K., & Krull, J. L. (2009). Dual mechanisms underlying accentuation of risky drinking via fraternity/sorority affiliation: The role of personality, peer norms, and alcohol availability. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 241-255.

Park, A., Sher, K. J., & Krull, J. L. (2008). Risky drinking in college changes as fraternity/sorority affiliation changes: A person-environment perspective. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 219-229.

Rutledge, P. C., Park, A., & Sher, K. J. (2008). 21st Birthday Drinking: Going to extremes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 511-516.
                       
Tragesser, S. L., Trull, T. J., Sher, K. J., & Park, A. (2008). Drinking motives as mediators of the relation between personality disorder symptoms and alcohol use disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 22, 525-537.

Tragesser, S. L., Sher, K. J., Trull, T. J., & Park, A. (2007). Personality disorder symptoms, drinking motives, and alcohol use and consequences: Cross-sectional and prospective mediation. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 15, 282-292.

Park, A., Sher, K. J., & Krull, J. L. (2006). Individual differences in the “Greek effect” on risky drinking: The role of self-consciousness. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20, 85-90.

Jackson, K. M., Sher, K. J., & Park, A. (2005). Drinking among college students – consumption and consequences. In M. Galanter (Ed). Recent Developments in Alcoholism: Research on alcohol problems in adolescents and young Adults (Volume XVII), pp. 85-117. New York: Plenum.