Samantha Walker, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist

After receiving her Ph.D. in 1999, Dr. Samantha Walker, a social psychologist, was awarded an NIAAA post-doctoral fellowship with the Prevention Research Center. Primarily, her research focus is on sources, pathways and processes of social influence contributing to adolescent high-risk behavior including sexual activities, and alcohol and substance use and abuse. Additional research interests concentrate on attitudes, beliefs and values involved in adolescents' decisions to engage in drinking and drug use behavior.

Currently, she is an associate research scientist, project coordinator and analyst at the Prevention Research Center. Dr. Walker has considerable training and experience in latent variable structural equations modeling and other multivariate techniques with several publications in the areas of social influence and aggression. Presently, she is completing two manuscripts: 1) the relationship of drinking locations on adolescent driving under the influence and riding with drunk drivers and 2) the effects of family and peer actual behavior and attitudes on adolescents' normative beliefs, alcohol expectancies, and intentions to drink and current alcohol use.

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