Dr. Jessica Perrotte

Biography

Dr. Jessica Perrotte joined the Texas State Department of Psychology in 2019 after receiving a PhD in psychology from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research focuses on identifying and exploring connections between broad sociocultural processes and cognitive factors in relation to health risk behaviors such as alcohol (mis)use. Much of her work is centered around Hispanic/Latina/o/e populations with an added emphasis on gender. Dr. Perrotte is the director of SCCAERAB (Social, Cultural, and Cognitive Approaches to Examining Risky and Addictive Behaviors), a highly active lab with several concurrent and ongoing projects. Though there is a strong emphasis on quantitative methods at SCCAERAB, the lab also incorporates qualitative methods to explore research questions from a more nuanced perspective. Dr. Perrotte's predoctoral and current program of research is supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health. 

Areas of Interest:

Social Psychology 

Cultural Psychology 

Health Psychology 

Clinical Psychology

Research Information:

Broadly, Dr. Perrotte’s research explores how health risk behaviors are situated within a network of interrelated factors. Much of her recent and ongoing work examines the links between broad sociocultural processes (e.g., acculturation, gender role socialization) and hazardous drinking among Latinx young adults.  

Selected Publications:

Perrotte, J. K., Meca, A., Piña-Watson, B., Ham, L., Grigsby, T. J., Cano, M. Á., Martin, J. L., & Kim, S. Y. (in press). A motivational framework to connect traditional feminine gender roles to alcohol use and consequences among Latina young adults in the U.S. Journal of Latinx Psychology.

Perrotte, J. K., Martinez, P., Castro, Y., Pinedo, M., Field, C., Tran, L., & Schepis, T. S. (in press). Trends in alcohol use disorder symptoms among U.S. adults disaggregated by sex, race, and age. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Perrotte, J. K., Castro, Y., Martinez, P., Field, C. A., Pinedo, M., & Schepis, T. S. (2025). Disaggregating trends in alcohol involvement among Hispanic, Black, and White female and male U.S. adolescents: 2002 to 2019. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. DOI: 10.15288/jsad.23-00390

Perrotte, J. K., Romero, D. N, Ceballos, N. A., Howard, K. J., & Graham, R. (2024). Contextualizing linguistic acculturation and alcohol use among Hispanic college students in the social digital environment. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000712 

Perrotte, J. K., Shrestha, N. R., MacPhail, D. C. G., Ximenes, M. C., Ali, Y. R., & Baumann, M. R. (2024). Thinking about drinking: Acculturation and alcohol-related cognitions among college-bound Latinas. Journal of American College Health, 72(8), 2597-2604. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2119858 

Howard, J. T., Perrotte, J. K., Flores, K., Leong, C., Nocito, J., & Howard, K. J. (2022). Trends in binge drinking and heavy alcohol consumption among pregnant women in the US, 2011 to 2020. JAMA Network Open, 5(8). Doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.24846