Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER)
The Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER) focuses on research that seeks to understand and treat addictive behaviors and their co-occurring psychological conditions. CAPER is comprised of a multidisciplinary team with expertise in the domains of clinical and counseling psychology, as well as social and decisional sciences.
Capitalizing on active collaborations with top local, national, and international research teams, CAPER supports state-of-the-art bio-behavioral research with rigorous experimental designs. As a true translational research Center, CAPER also blends this basic process research with efforts to develop novel assessment and behavioral intervention approaches that work in real world community settings.