Phillip Gable, Ph.D.
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Philip Gable, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Philip Gable

Primary Concentration:

Social Psychology

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Website:  SCEN Lab Website

Contact Information:

Office:  356B Gordon-Palmer Hall
Phone:  205-348-7028
FAX:  205-348-8648
E-Mail:  pagable@gmail.com


Courses:

Biological Bases of Behavior (PY629)
Physiological Psychology (PY413)
Affective Neurophysiology (PY656)
Introductory Psychology (PY101)
Honors Introductory Psychology (PY105)
Dr. Gable will be accepting applications for graduate students for Fall 2019.

Research Interests:

Alcohol Cue Reactivity
​Tobacco Marketing
Emotional/Social Neuroscience
Cognition-Emotion Interaction
EEG, EMG, Reflex Physiology
Approach Motivation, Reward Processing, Motor Preparation
Attentional Scope, Memory, Time Perception

Selected Publications:

* Denotes student author
 
*Mechin, N., & *Neal, L.B., & Gable, P. A. (in press). Attenuating the alcohol allure: Attentional broadening reduces rapid motivational response to alcohol pictures. Psychopharmacology.
 
Gable, P. A., *Neal, L.B., & *Poole, B.D. (in press). Sadness speeds and disgust drags: Influence of motivational direction on time perception in negative affect. Motivation Science.
 
*Meadows, C.C., Gable, P. A., Lohse, K.R., Miller, M.W. (2016). Motivation and motor cortical activity can independently affect motor performance. Neuroscience. 339, 174-179.
 
*Mechin, N., Gable, P. A., & Hicks, J.A. (2016). Frontal asymmetry and alcohol cue reactivity: influence of core personality systems. Psychophysiology. 53, 1224-1231.
 
*Meadows, C.C., Gable, P. A., Lohse, K.R., Miller, M.W. (2016). The effects of reward magnitude on reward processing: An averaged and single trial event-related potential study. Biological Psychology. 118, 154-160.
 
*Threadgill, A. H., & Gable, P. A. (2016). Approach-motivated pregoal states enhance the reward positivity. Psychophysiology, 53, 733-738.
 
Gable, P. A., *Mechin, N., & *Neal, L.B., (2016). Booze cues and attentional narrowing: Neural correlates of virtual alcohol myopia. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 30, 377-382.
 
Gable, P.A., &  Harmon-Jones, E., (2016). Assessing the Motivational Dimensional Model of Emotion-Cognition Interaction: Comment on Domachowska, Heitmann, Deutsch, et al., (2015). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 67, 57-59.
 
*Neal, L.B. & Gable, P.A. (2016). Neurophysiological markers of multiple facets of impulsivity. Biological Psychology, 115, 64-68.

Gable, P. A., *Poole, B.D., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2015). Anger narrows perceptual and conceptual attentional scope. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(1), 163-174.
 
Gable, P. A., *Mechin, N., Hicks, J. A., & *Adams, D. A. (2015). Supervisory control system and frontal asymmetry: Neurophysiological traits of emotion-based impulsivity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 1310-315.
 
Hicks, J. A., Davis, W. E., Fields, S. A., & Gable, P. A. (2015). Heavy drinking, impulsivity and attentional narrowing following alcohol cue exposure. Psychopharmacology, 232, 2773-2779.
 
Gable, P. A., *Adams, D. L., & Proudfit, G., (2015). Transient tasks and enduring emotions: The impacts of affective content, task relevance, and picture duration on the sustained late positive potential. Cognitive Affective Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 45-54.
 
*Poole, B.D., & Gable, P.A. (2014). Affective motivational direction drives asymmetric frontal hemisphere activation. Experimental Brain Research, 232, 1-10. 
 
Gable, P. A., & *Poole, B. D. (2014). Influence of trait behavioral inhibition and behavioral approach motivation systems on the LPP and frontal assymetry to anger pictures. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 182-190.
 
Gable, P. A., & *Adams, D. L. (2013). Non-Affective motivation modulates the sustained LPP (1000-2000 ms). Psychophysiology, 12, 1251-1254.
 
Gable, P. A., *Poole, B. D., & *Cook, M. S., (2013). Asymmetrical hemisphere activation enhances global-local processing. Brain and Cognition, 83, 337-341. 
 
Hart, W. & Gable, P. A., (2013). Motivating goal pursuit: The role of affect motivational intensity and activated goals. Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology. 49, 922-926. 
 
Harmon-Jones, E., Gable, P. A. & Price, T., (2013). Does Negative Affect Always Narrow and Positive Affect Always Broaden the Mind? Considering the Influence of Motivational Intensity on Cognitive Scope. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 301-307.
 
Gable, P. A. & Harmon-Jones, E. (2013). Does arousal per se account for the influence of appetitive stimuli on attentional scope and the late positive potential? Psychophysiology, 50, 344-350. 
 
Gable, P. A. & *Poole, B.D. (2012). Time flies when you’re having approach-motivated fun: Effects of motivational intensity on time perception. Psychological Science, 23, 879-886. 
 
Hicks, J.A., Friedman, R. S., Gable, P. A., & Davis, W. E. (2012). Interactive effects of approach motivational intensity and alcohol cues on the scope of perceptual attention. Addiction, 101, 1074-1080.
 
Gable, P. A. & Harmon-Jones, E. (2012). Trait behavioral approach sensitivity (BAS) relates to early (< 150 ms) electrocortical responses to appetitive stimuli. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss072. 
 
Harmon-Jones, E., Gable, P. A., & Price, T. (2012).The influence of affective states varying in motivational intensity on cognitive scope. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00073.
 
Gable, P. A. & Harmon-Jones, E. (2012). Reducing attentional capture of emotion by broadening attention: Increased global attention reduces early electrophysiological responses to negative stimuli. Biological Psychology, 90, 150-153.
 
Harmon-Jones, E., Price, T., & Gable, P. A. (2012). The influence of affective states on cognitive broadening/narrowing: Considering the importance of motivational intensity. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 314-327.
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