{"id":3550,"date":"2017-09-14T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3550"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:42:44","slug":"tibor-palfai-phd","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/profile\/tibor-palfai-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibor P. A. Palfai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Palfai completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University<\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Palfai&#8217;s primary research interests are: (1) understanding the cognitive-motivational processes underlying health risk behaviors (e.g., hazardous\/harmful drinking, substance use, risky sexual decisions) and (2) developing psychological interventions to reduce these risks.<\/span><span>\u00a0 <\/span><span>Specific areas of research include, (1) web and mobile-based interventions to reduce hazardous drinking and substance use, (2) laboratory studies on the effect of alcohol on self-control and decision making processes related to health risk behaviors, and (3) screening and brief intervention to modify HIV-risk factors and (4) developing integrated, behavioral interventions for patients in medical settings (e.g., HIV-care, primary care) who are experiencing co-occurring conditions (e.g., chronic pain and heavy drinking).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13845,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13845"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3550\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}