Dr Natalie Loxton
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research
Natalie is a registered psychologist and Lecturer in the School of Psychology (Griffith). Her major research area is using biologically-based personality theories in examining the addiction processes involved in the progression from hazardous drinking to alcohol dependence. She is also investigating the use of targeted interventions for young people at risk of alcohol problems and for adults in treatment for alcohol dependence.
Book
Dawe, S., Loxton, N. J., Hides, L., Kavanagh, D. J. and Mattick, R. P. (2002). Review of diagnostic screening instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders. 2nd ed. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
Book Chapters
Dawe, Sharon, Dingle, Genevieve and Loxton, Natalie J. (2013). Screening and assessment of comorbidity. Interventions for addictions: comprehensive addictive behaviors and disorders. (pp. 299-308) Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-398338-1.00031-2
Smillie, Luke D., Loxton, Natalie J. and Avery, Rachel E. (2011). Reinforcement sensitivity theory, research, applications and future. The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of individual differences. (pp. 101-131) edited by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Sophie von Strumm and Adrian Furnham. Malden, MA, United States: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch4
Loxton, Natalie, J. and Dawe, Sharon (2009). Personality and Eating Disorders. The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology. (pp. 687-703) edited by Philip J. Corr and Gerald Mathews. New York, United States of America: Cambridge University Press.
Dawe, Sharon, Loxton, Natalie J., Gullo, Matthew J., Staiger, Petra K., Kamouropoulos, Nicolas, Perdon, Laura and Wood, Andrew (2007). The role of impulsive personality traits in the initiation, development and treatment of substance misuse problems. Translation of addictions science into practice. (pp. 321-339) edited by Peter M. Miller and David J. Kavanagh. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Pergamon. doi: 10.1016/B978-008044927-2/50064-X
Journal Articles
Modecki, Kathryn, Phipps, Daniel J., Cox, Anita, Loxton, Natalie J., Hamilton, Kyra, Caton, Neil and Elwin, Melissa (2022). Unravelling reciprocal effects among young adults’ binge drinking, stress, and anticipated regret. Addictive Behaviors, 135 107432, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107432
Whatnall, Megan, Skinner, Janelle, Verdejo-Garcia, Antonio, Carter, Adrian, Brown, Robyn M., Andrews, Zane B., Dayas, Chris V., Hardman, Charlotte A., Loxton, Natalie, Sumithran, Priya and Burrows, Tracy (2021). Symptoms of addictive eating: what do different health professions think?. Behavioral Sciences, 11 (5) 60, 60. doi: 10.3390/bs11050060
Wilson, Daniel R., Loxton, Natalie J. and O'Donovan, Analise (2021). From BIS to binge: the role of negative affect in the pathway between personality and binge eating. Eating Behaviors, 41 101479, 101479. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2021.101479
Wilson, Daniel R., Loxton, Natalie J., Joynt, Tamsin and O'Donovan, Analise (2021). There is no such thing as a mindful binge: How mindfulness disrupts the pathway between anxiety and impulsivity on maladaptive eating behaviours. Personality and Individual Differences, 168 110393, 110393. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110393
Burrows, Tracy, Verdejo-Garcia, Antonio, Carter, Adrian, Brown, Robyn M., Andrews, Zane B., Dayas, Chris V., Hardman, Charlotte A., Loxton, Natalie, Sumithran, Priya and Whatnall, Megan (2020). Health professionals’ and health professional trainees’ views on addictive eating behaviours: A cross-sectional survey. Nutrients, 12 (9) 2860, 1-15. doi: 10.3390/nu12092860
Maxwell, Aimee L., Gardiner, Elliroma and Loxton, Natalie J. (2020). Investigating the relationship between reward sensitivity, impulsivity, and food addiction: A systematic review. European Eating Disorders Review, 28 (4) erv.2732, 368-384. doi: 10.1002/erv.2732
Pocuca, Nina, Hides, Leanne, Quinn, Catherine A., White, Melanie J., Mewton, Louise and Loxton, Natalie J. (2019). An exploratory study of the relationship between neuroticism and problematic drinking in emerging adulthood, and the moderating effect of social anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 145, 132-144. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.03.022
Tatnell, Drew G., Loxton, Natalie J., Modecki, Kathryn L. and Hamilton, Kyra (2019). Testing a model of reward sensitivity, implicit and explicit drinker identity and hazardous drinking. Psychology and Health, 34 (12), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2019.1606221
Shagar, Pravina Santhira, Donovan, Caroline L., Loxton, Natalie, Boddy, Jennifer and Harris, Neil (2019). Is thin in everywhere?: A cross-cultural comparison of a subsection of Tripartite Influence Model in Australia and Malaysia. Appetite, 134, 59-68. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.12.025
Wilson, Daniel R., Loxton, Natalie J., O'Shannessy, Dustin, Sheeran, Nicola and Morgan, Angela (2019). Similarities and differences in revised reinforcement sensitivities across eating disorder subtypes. Appetite, 133, 70-76. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.10.023
Hatzis, Denise, Dawe, Sharon, Harnett, Paul and Loxton, Natalie (2019). An Investigation of the Impact of Childhood Trauma on Quality of Caregiving in High Risk Mothers: Does Maternal Substance Misuse Confer Additional Risk?. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 50 (5), 835-845. doi: 10.1007/s10578-019-00886-5
Cummings, Daniel J., Loxton, Natalie J. and Poropat, Arthur E. (2019). The relevance/significance of stimuli appraisals for personality traits in an academic context. Learning and Individual Differences, 69, 225-231. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2018.04.008
Loxton, Natalie J. (2018). The Role of Reward Sensitivity and Impulsivity in Overeating and Food Addiction. Current Addiction Reports, 5 (2), 212-222. doi: 10.1007/s40429-018-0206-y
Kidd, Chloe and Loxton, Natalie J. (2018). Junk food advertising moderates the indirect effect of reward sensitivity and food consumption via the urge to eat. Physiology and Behavior, 188, 276-282. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.02.030
Gullo, Matthew J., Loxton, Natalie J., Price, Therese, Voisey, Joanne, Young, Ross McD. and Connor, Jason P. (2017). A laboratory model of impulsivity and alcohol use in late adolescence. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 97, 52-63. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.07.003
Cummings, Daniel J., Poropat, Arthur E. and Loxton, Natalie J. (2017). Chronic accessibility of academic stimuli: Conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism. Personality and Individual Differences, 115, 144-147. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.020
Maxwell, Aimee L., Loxton, Natalie J. and Hennegan, Julie M. (2017). Exposure to food cues moderates the indirect effect of reward sensitivity and external eating via implicit eating expectancies. Appetite, 111, 135-141. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2016.12.037
Loxton, Natalie J. and Tipman, Renee J. (2016). Reward sensitivity and food addiction in women. Appetite, 115, 28-35. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2016.10.022
Harnett, Paul H., Reid, Natasha, Loxton, Natalie J. and Lee, Nick (2016). The relationship between trait mindfulness, personality and psychological distress: a revised reinforcement sensitivity theory perspective. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 100-105. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.085
Loxton, Natalie J., Mitchell, Rohani, Dingle, Genevieve A. and Sharman, Leah S. (2016). How to tame your BAS: reward sensitivity and music involvement. Personality and Individual Differences, 97, 35-39. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.018
Goodwin, Belinda C., Browne, Matthew, Rockloff, Matthew and Loxton, Natalie J. (2016). Rash impulsivity predicts lower anticipated pleasure response and a preference for the supernormal. Personality and Individual Differences, 94, 206-210. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.01.030
Davis, Caroline, Loxton, Natalie J., Levitan, Robert D., Kaplan, Allan S., Carter, Jacqueline C. and Kennedy, James L. (2015). Corrigendum to "'Food addiction' and its association with a dopaminergic multilocus genetic profile" [Physiol. Behav. (2013) (118) 63-69]. Physiology and Behavior, 149, 340-340. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.05.028
Stratton, Richard, Donovan, Caroline, Bramwell, Shannon and Loxton, Natalie J. (2015). Don't stop till you get enough: factors driving men towards muscularity. Body Image, 15, 72-80. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2015.07.002
Loxton, Natalie J., Bunker, Richard J., Dingle, Genevieve A. and Wong, Valerie (2015). Drinking not thinking: A prospective study of personality traits and drinking motives on alcohol consumption across the first year of university. Personality and Individual Differences, 79, 134-139. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.02.010
Clark, D. Matthew T., Loxton, Natalie J. and Tobin, Stephanie J. (2015). Declining loneliness over time: evidence from American colleges and high schools. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41 (1), 78-89. doi: 10.1177/0146167214557007
Yilmaz, Z., Davis, C., Loxton, N. J., Kaplan, A. S., Levitan, R. D., Carter, J. C. and Kennedy, J. L. (2015). Association between MC4R rs17782313 polymorphism and overeating behaviors. International Journal of Obesity, 39 (1), 114-120. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2014.79
Clark, D. Matthew T., Loxton, Natalie J. and Tobin, Stephanie J. (2015). Multiple mediators of reward and punishment sensitivity on loneliness. Personality and Individual Differences, 72, 101-106. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.016
Kabbani, Rachel, Kambouropoulos, Nicolas, Loxton, Natalie J. and Bunker, Richard (2014). Examining the Affective Tone of Alcohol Craving in Young Drinkers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 28 (4), 1259-1264. doi: 10.1037/a0038261
Tobin, Stephanie J., Loxton, Natalie J. and Neighbors, Clayton (2014). Coping with causal uncertainty through alcohol use. Addictive Behaviors, 39 (3), 580-585. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.11.009
Gardiner, Elliroma, Jackson, Chris J. and Loxton, Natalie J. (2014). Left hemispheric lateral preference and high neuroticism predict disinhibition in two go/no-go experiments. Journal of Personality, 83 (1), 84-96. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12084
Gullo, Matthew J., Loxton, Natalie J. and Dawe, Sharon (2014). Impulsivity: four ways five factors are not basic to addiction. Addictive Behaviors, 39 (11), 1547-1556. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.01.002
Jackson, Chris J., Loxton, Natalie J., Harnett, Paul, Ciarrochi, Joseph and Gullo, Matthew J. (2014). Original and revised reinforcement sensitivity theory in the prediction of executive functioning: a test of relationships between dual systems. Personality and Individual Differences, 56 (1), 83-88. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.08.024
Dissabandara, Lakal O., Loxton, Natalie J., Dias, Shavindra R., Dodd, Peter R., Daglish, Mark and Stadlin, Alfreda (2014). Dependent heroin use and associated risky behaviour: the role of rash impulsiveness and reward sensitivity. Addictive Behaviors, 39 (1), 71-76. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.06.009
Maujean, Annick, Davis, Penelope, Kendall, Elizabeth, Casey, Leanne and Loxton, Natalie (2014). The daily living self-efficacy scale: a new measure for assessing self-efficacy in stroke survivors. Disability and Rehabilitation, 36 (6), 504-511. doi: 10.3109/09638288.2013.804592
Harnett, Paul H, Lynch, Samantha J., Gullo, MatthewJ., Dawe, Sharon and Loxton, Natalie (2013). Personality, cognition and hazardous drinking: support for the 2-Component Approach to Reinforcing Substances Model. Addictive Behaviors, 38 (12), 2945-2948. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.08.017
Hennegan, Julie M., Loxton, Natalie J. and Mattar, Ameerah (2013). Great expectations. Eating expectancies as mediators of reinforcement sensitivity and eating. Appetite, 71, 81-88. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2013.07.013
Davis, Caroline and Loxton, Natalie J. (2013). Addictive behaviors and addiction-prone personality traits: associations with a dopamine multilocus genetic profile. Addictive Behaviors, 38 (7), 2306-2312. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.02.012
Davis, Caroline, Loxton, Natalie J., Levitan, Robert D., Kaplan, Allan S., Carter, Jacqueline C. and Kennedy, James L. (2013). 'Food addiction' and its association with a dopaminergic multilocus genetic profile. Physiology and Behavior, 118, 63-69. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.05.014
Harnett, Paul H., Loxton, Natalie J. and Jackson, Chris J. (2013). Revised reinforcement sensitivity theory: implications for psychopathology and psychological health. Personality and Individual Differences, 54 (3), 432-437. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.019
Dissabandara, Lakal O., Loxton, Natalie J., Dias, Shavindra R., Daglish, Mark and Stadlin, Alfreda (2012). Testing the fear and anxiety distinction in the BIS/BAS scales in community and heroin-dependent samples. Personality and Individual Differences, 52 (8), 888-892. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.01.023
Clark, D. Matthew T. and Loxton, Natalie J. (2012). Fear, psychological acceptance, job demands and employee work engagement: An integrative moderated meditation model. Personality and Individual Differences, 52 (8), 893-897. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.01.022
Dissabandara, Lakal, Loxton, Natalie, Dias, Shavindra, Daglish, Mark and Stadlin, Alfreda (2011). Psychometric properties of three personality inventories translated to Sinhalese. Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, 2 (1), 13-17. doi: 10.4038/sljpsyc.v2i1.3160
Loxton, Natalie J., Dawe, Sharon and Cahill, Allison (2011). Does negative mood drive the urge to eat? The contribution of negative mood, exposure to food cues and eating style. Appetite, 56 (2), 368-374. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.01.011
Izadikhah, Z, Jackson, CJ and Loxton, N (2010). An integrative approach to personality: Behavioural Approach System, mastery approach orientation and environmental cues in the prediction of work performance. Personality And Individual Differences, 48 (5), 590-595. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.12.012
Loxton, Natalie J., Nguyen, Dan, Casey, Leanne and Dawe, Sharon (2008). Reward drive, rash impulsivity and punishment sensitivity in problem gamblers. Personality and Individual Differences, 45 (2), 167-173. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.03.017
Loxton, Natalie J., Wan, Venice L.-N., Ho, Ada M.-C., Cheung, Ben K.-L., Tam, Nicole, Leung, Freedom Y. K. and Stadlin, Alfreda (2008). Impulsivity in Hong Kong-Chinese club-drug users. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 95 (1-2), 81-89. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.12.009
Loxton, Natalie J. and Dawe, Sharon (2007). How do Dysfunctional Eating and Hazardous Drinking Women Perform on Behavioural Measures of Reward and Punishment Sensitivity?. Personality and Individual Differences, 42 (6), 1163-1172. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.09.031
Loxton, N. J. and Dawe, S. (2006). Reward and punishment sensitivity in dysfunctional eating and hazardous drinking women: Associations with family risk. Appetite, 47 (3), 361-371. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2006.05.014
Schweitzer, R. D., Buckley, L., Harnett, P. H. and Loxton, N. J. (2006). Predictors of failure by medical practitioners to report suspected child abuse in Queensland, Australia. Australian Health Review, 30 (3), 298-304. doi: 10.1071/AH060298
Harnett, Paul H., Loxton, Natalie J., Sadler, Trevor, Hides, Leanne and Baldwin, Andrea (2005). The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents in an adolescent in-patient sample. Australian And New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39 (3), 129-135. doi: 10.1080/j.1440-1614.2005.01533.x
Dawe, S., Gullo, M. J. and Loxton, N. J. (2004). Reward drive and rash impulsiveness as dimensions of impulsivity: Implications for substance misuse. Addictive Behaviors, 29 (7), 1389-1405. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2004.06.004
Dawe, S. and Loxton, N. J. (2004). The role of impulsivity in the development of substance use and eating disorders. Neuroscience And Biobehavioral Reviews, 28 (3), 343-351. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.03.007
Kane, T. A., Loxton, N. J., Staiger, P. K. and Dawe, S. (2004). Does the tendency to act impulsively underlie binge eating and alcohol use problems? An empirical investigation. Personality And Individual Differences, 36 (1), 83-94. doi: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00070-9
Blowers, Lucy C., Loxton, Natalie J., Grady-Flesser, Megan, Occhipinti, Stefano and Dawe, Sharon (2003). The relationship between sociocultural pressure to be thin and body dissatisfaction in preadolescent girls. Eating Behaviors, 4 (3), 229-244. doi: 10.1016/S1471-0153(03)00018-7
Loxton, Natalie J. and Dawe, Sharon (2001). Alcohol abuse and dysfunctional eating in adolescent girls: The influence of individual differences in sensitivity to reward and punishment. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 29 (4), 455-462. doi: 10.1002/eat.1042
Conference Papers
Alfreda, S., Dissabandara, L. O., Loxton, N. J., Ho, A. M. and Dodd, P. R. (2014). Impulsitivy personality traits and gene polymorphisms associated with heroin dependence in a Sri Lankan population. ISAM 2014: 16th International Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Meeting, Yokohama, Japan, 2-6 October, 2014. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agu052.56
Gullo, Matthew J., Brown, Gavin, Dawe, Sharon, Harnett, Paul, Lynch, Samantha J., Loxton, Natalie J., Connor, Jason P., George, Suzie M., Kelly, Adrian B. and Young, Ross M. C. D. (2013). Symposium: Through a shot glass, darkly: exploring the thinking-Feeling connection in impulsive alcohol use by adolescents. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 24-27 November 2013. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. doi: 10.1111/dar.12077
Harnett, Paul, Lynch, Samantha, Gullo, Matthew J., Dawe, Sharon and Loxton, Natalie J. (2013). Cognition and hazardous drinking in youth: support for the two-component approach to reinforcing substances (2-CARS) model. Australiasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference 2013 (APSAD), Brisbane, Australia, 24-27 November 2013. West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/dar.12077
Dissabandara, L., Loxton, N. J., Daglish, M. and Stadlin, A. (2012). Genotype-Phenotype Interaction Studies in Sri Lankan Heroin-Dependent Users. 16th World Congress of the International-Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA), Sapporo Japan, 09-12 September 2012. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01917.x
Loxton, N. J., Hennegan, J. and Mattar, A. P. (2011). Eating for pleasure or to reduce pain? Eating expectancies as mediators of reinforcement sensitivity and over-eating. 2011 International Society for the Study of Individual Differences Conference, London, United Kingdom, 25-28 July 2011.
Loxton, N. J. and Byrnes, S. (2011). "I'm lovin' it": Reward sensitivity and exposure to television food commercials on desire to eat. 2011 Annual Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences, Hobart, Australia, 1-2 December 2011.
Daglish, M. R. C., Dissabandara, L., Loxton, N., Dodd, P. R. and Stadlin, A. (2010). Impulsive personality predicts risky sexual behaviour in heroin addicts. Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, Harrogate, United Kingdom, 25-28 July, 2010. Oxford, England: Sage.
Chan, J. T. and Loxton, N. (2008). Mr Olympia, Schwarzenegger, the weekend warrior, and bigorexia: Individual differences and risk factors associated with the male drive for muscularity. Sports Medicine Australia 2008 Queensland State Conference, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia, 24 May 2008. Sports Medicine Aust. (Qld Branch).
Chan, J. T. and Loxton, N. (2008). Mr. Olympia, Schwarzenegger, the Weekend Warrior and 'Bigorexia': Individual differences and risk factors associated with the male drive for muscularity. Human Movement Studies Postgraduate Conference, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia, 30 May - 1 June 2008. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: The University of Queensland.