The puzzle of addiction lies in understanding the decision to take drugs despite negative consequences and goals to pursue other activities. Powerful motivational forces—such as craving—reliably precede these decisions, yet the mechanism remains unclear. My work combines computational modeling with naturalistic sampling and task-based neuroimaging to understand the algorithmic link between craving and behavior.

I’m currently a PhD student in the Addiction & Decision Neuroscience Lab at Rutgers University, with Anna Konova. Previously, I was a post-baccalaureate research assistant at the University of Kansas within the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment, with Richard Yi, and the Behavioral Science Lab, with Tim Pleskac.

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Publications

Collado, A., Grunevski, S., Brockstein, H., & Alvord, M. (2025). Resilience moderates the association between discrimination distress on substance use expectancies among Latinx adolescents. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2025.2467191

Hudson, J., Grunevski, S., Sebelius, J., & Yi, R. (2024). Art-delivered episodic future thinking reduces delay discounting: A phase IIa proof-of-concept trial. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 158, 209255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2023.209255

Pleskac, T. J., Yu, S., Grunevski, S., & Liu, T. (2023). Attention biases preferential choice by enhancing an option’s value. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(4), 993-1010. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001307 [CODE AND DATA REPOSITORY]

Adaryukov, J., Grunevski, S., Reed, D., & Pleskac, T. J. (2022). I’m wearing a mask, but are they?: Perceptions of self-other differences in COVID-19 health behaviors. PLOS ONE, 17(6), e0269625. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269625 [CODE AND DATA REPOSITORY]

Collado, A., Felton, J., Grunevski, S., Doran, K., & Yi, R. (2022). Working memory training reduces cigarette smoking among low-income individuals with elevated delay discounting. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 24(6), 890-896. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac005

Grunevski, S., Smith, A. P., & Yi, R. (2022). Are you sure: Preference and ambivalence in delay discounting. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 782991. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.782991