Kayce Hopper

Kayce Hopper (CV) is a fifth-year student in the Clinical Psychology program at Ole Miss. Kayce graduated from the College of Charleston in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. While at the College of Charleston, she completed her Senior Thesis, Negative Incentive Shifts in Food Reward Produce Ethanol Consumption in Rats, with Dr. Chad Galuska. After graduating from the College of Charleston, her Senior Thesis was incorporated into a manuscript, which she co-authored, titled Effects of Negative Incentive Shifts in Food Reward on Rats’ Consumption of Concurrent Ethanol Solutions. During her time as a post-baccalaureate, she was a research assistant at the Anxiety and Addictive Behaviors Lab and Clinic at Louisiana State University as well as an Applied Behavioral Analysis line technician at the Gulfsouth Autism Center in Baton Rouge, LA. Kayce’s research interests pertain to understanding how variables, such as distress tolerance, parental relationships, and anxiety sensitivity, mediate the relationship between anxiety and substance use in adolescents and young adults.