Department of Psychology

psychology faculty

Faculty Member

Research/Training Interests

Chair

J.D. Jasper
Chair & Professor 
Area: Experimental - Cognitive
Office: UH 5014A
Phone: 419-530-4130
jjasper@utnet.utoledo.edu

  • Judgment and decision making
  • Computerized process tracing techniques
  • Risk perception
  • Attitude and belief formation
  • Information integration
  • Individual differences
  • Health
  • Consumer behavior 

Associate Chair and Undergraduate Coordinator

Peter Mezo
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, & Undergraduate Coordinator
Area: Clinical
Office: UH 1880A
Phone: 419-530-4399
peter.mezo@utoledo.edu

  • Self-management and related models of self-regulation and coping
  • Factors associated with stress and depression among adults
  • Principles of evidence-based supervision, assessment, and treatment

Director of Clinical Training

Sarah Francis
Associate Professor & Director of Clinical Training
Area: Clinical
Office: UH 1430
Phone: 419-530-2771
sarah.francis@utoledo.edu

  • Child anxiety
  • Parental influences on child anxiety
  • Child anxiety sensitivity
  • Prevention of childhood anxiety

Experimental Coordinator

Jason Rose
Associate Professor
Area: Experimental - Social
Office: UH 6516
Phone: 419-530-2278
jason.rose4@utoledo.edu

  • Social comparison and comparative judgment
  • Perceived vulnerability/risk
  • Norm perception and influence
  • Optimism
  • Culture and self
  • Individual differences in judgment and decision-making

Psychology Clinic Director

Clarissa W. Ong
Assistant Professor & Director of the Psychology Clinic
Area: Clinical
Lab Website

  • Process-based therapy
  • Acceptance and commitment therapy
  • Obsessive-compulsive and related presentations (e.g., perfectionism, hoarding)
  • Internet-based treatment
  • Assessment and measure performance

Faculty

Wesley A. Bullock
Associate Professor
Area: Clinical
Office: UH 1420
Phone: 419-530-2719
wesley.bullock@utoledo.edu

  • Mindfulness and acceptance-based treatments
  • Mindfulness in forensic and school-based settings
  • Mental health recovery
  • Program evaluation

Stephen Christman
Professor
Area: Experimental - Cognitive
Office: UH 5018C
Phone: 419-530-4684
stephen.christman@utoledo.edu

  • Cognitive flexibility
  • Episodic memory
  • Handedness
  • Hemispheric asymmetry
  • Visual perception

Jon Elhai
Distinguished University Professor
Area: Clinical
Office: UH 1370
Phone: 419-530-2829
Email Dr. Elhai
Lab Website

  • Cyberpsychology
  • Internet addictions
  • Problematic smartphone/social media use and relations with mental health
  • Fear of missing out (FOMO)

Andrew Geers
Professor
Area: Experimental - Social
Office: UH 6524
Phone: 419-530-8530
andrew.geers@utoledo.edu

  • Goals and expectations
  • Formation of affect and emotion
  • Placebo effects
  • Initiation and maintenance of health beliefs and behavior
  • Decision-making 

Henry Heffner
Professor
Area: Experimental - Psychobiology & Learning
Office: UH 5002
Phone: 419-530-2257
henry.heffner@utoledo.edu

  • Role of auditory cortex
  • Comparative mammalian hearing
  • Tinnitus
  • Ethics of animal research

Kamala London Newton
Professor
Area: Experimental - Developmental
Office: UH 1880B
Phone: 419-530-2352
kamala.london@utoledo.edu

  • Forensic developmental psychology
  • Autobiographical memory and suggestibility in children
  • Disclosure of child maltreatment
  • Statistics 

Gregory Meyer
Professor
Area: Clinical
Office: UH 1065
Phone: 419-530-4312
gregory.meyer@utoledo.edu

  • Personality assessment
  • Test validation
  • Neuropsychological processes
  • Interpersonal perception
  • Clinical symptomatology
  • Meta-analysis

Joni Mihura
Professor
Office: UH 1067
Phone: 419-530-2716
joni.mihura@utoledo.edu

  • Personality assessment
  • Rorschach validity and utility
  • Doctoral training

Cin Cin Tan
Assistant Professor
Area: Experimental - Developmental
Office: UH 1880C
cincin.tan@utoledo.edu

  • Children eating behaviors (e.g., emotional eating, external eating)
  • Parent-child relationships (e.g., parenting, feeding behaviors)
  • Coparenting
  • Childhood obesity
  • Body weight stigma among children
  • Body talk

Mojisola Tiamiyu
Associate Professor
Area: Clinical
Office: UH 1063
Phone: 419-530-2853
mojisola.tiamiyu@utoledo.edu

  • Clinical-community psychology
  • Chronic illnesses, resilience, and post-traumatic growth
  • Cross-cultural psychology

 

 

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Last Updated: 3/4/24