Carrie Cuttler
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of British Columbia, 2008
Contact Information
Email: carrie.cuttler@wsu.edu
Office: Johnson Tower 211
Phone: (509) 335-0681
Office Hours: Tuesdays from 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Website: Health and Cognition Lab
Classes Taught
- Psychology 311: Elementary Statistics in Psychology
- Psychology 312: Experimental Methods in Psychology
- Psychology 333: Abnormal Psychology
- Psychology 361: Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology
- Psychology 490: Cognition and Memory
- Psychology 511: Experimental Design, T-Tests, and Analysis of Variance
- Psychology 512: Non-Experimental Design, Correlation, and Regression
Research Interests
Research in Dr. Cuttler’s Health and Cognition Lab focuses on elucidating the potentially beneficial and detrimental effects of chronic cannabis use and acute cannabis intoxication. Our current and recent work focuses on examining links between cannabis use and mental health (e.g., depression, anxiety, OCD), physical health (e.g., pain, sleep), stress, and cognition (e.g., memory, decision-making, executive functioning, creativity, attention). Further, we are interested in examining effects of cannabis with different concentrations of THC and CBD as well as effects of cannabis concentrates to better understand their influence on mental health, physical health, and cognition.
Selected Publications
Cuttler, C., Spradlin, A., Nusbaum, A.T., Whitney, P., Hinson, J.M., & McLaughlin, R. (2019). Joint effects of stress and chronic cannabis use on prospective memory. Psychopharmacology, 236, 1973-1983. doi: 10.1007/s00213-019-5184-9
Sexton, M., Cuttler, C., & Mischley, L. (2019). A survey of acute effects of cannabis and withdrawal symptoms. Differential responses across user types and age. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 25, 326-335. doi: 10.1089/acm.2018.0319
Spradlin, A., & Cuttler, C. (2019). Problems associated with using cannabis to cope. Cannabis, 2, 29-38. doi: 10.26828/cannabis.2019.01.001
‡Cuttler, C., ‡Sexton, M., & Mischley, L. (2018). Driving under the influence of cannabis: An examination of driving beliefs and practices of medical and recreational cannabis users in the United States. Cannabis, 1, 1-13. doi: 10.26828/cannabis.2018.02.001
Cuttler, C., Spradlin, A., & McLaughlin, R. J. (2018). A naturalistic examination of the perceived effects of cannabis on negative affect. Journal of Affective Disorders, 235, 198-205. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.04.054
Wilson, M., Gogulski, H. Y., Cuttler, C., Bigand, T. L., Oluwoye, O., & Barbosa-Leiker, C. (2018). Cannabis use moderates the relationship between pain and negative affect in adults with opioid use disorder. Addictive Behaviors, 77, 225-231. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.10.012
Cuttler, C., & Spradlin, A. (2017). Measuring cannabis consumption: Psychometric properties of the Daily Sessions, Frequency, Age of Onset, and Quantity of Cannabis Use Inventory (DFAQ-CU). PLOS ONE. 12(5): e0178194 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178194
Cuttler, C., Spradlin, A., Nusbaum, A. T., Whitney, P., Hinson, J. M. & McLaughlin, R. J. (2017). Blunted stress reactivity in chronic cannabis users. Psychopharmacology, 234, 2299-2309. doi: 10.1007/s00213-017-4648-z
LaFrance, E., & Cuttler, C. (2017). Inspired by Mary Jane? Mechanisms underlying enhanced creativity in cannabis users. Consciousness and Cognition, 56, 68-76. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.10.009
Nusbaum, A.T., Whitney, P., Cuttler, C., Spradlin, A., Hinson, J. M., McLaughlin, R. J. (2017). Altered attentional control strategies but spared executive functioning in chronic cannabis users. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 181, 116-123. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.09.019
Spradlin, A., Mauzay, D., & Cuttler, C. (2017). Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder predict cannabis misuse. Addictive Behaviors, 72, 159-164. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.03.023
‡ co-first author
