Meet Our Graduate Students

Graduate Student	Research/Training Interests
Pallu Babu Area: Clinical Office: UH 5070C Phone: 419-530-2577 Pallavi.Babu@rockets.utoledo.edu	Positive psychology interventions/treatments and their clinical applications Risk and protective factors in relation to resilience Development and evaluation of accessible mental health and wellness-focused interventions for underserved communities
Margaret Baer Area: Clinical Office: UH 5030 Phone: 419-530-4681 Margaret.Baer@rockets.utoledo.edu	Co-occuring suicide ideation or attempts with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) Proximal risk factors for suicide ideation, suicide attempts, and NSSI Longitudinal and micro-longitudinal methods (e.g, ecological momentary assessment)
Anna Barbano Area: Clinical Office: UH 5020B Phone: 419-530-4681 Anna.Barbano@rockets.utoledo.edu	Post-traumatic psychopathology Post-trauma health and behaviors Individualized treatment outcomes
Benjamin Berry Area: Clinical Office: UH 1068 Phone: 419-530-2724 Benjamin.Berry@rockets.utoledo.edu	Psychological assessment Cognitive factors related to psychopathology Social cognition
Kirsten Buckingham Area: Clinical Office: UH 1061 Kirsten.Buckingham@rockets.utoledo.edu	Psychotic spectrum disorders Psychological assessment, specifically the Rorschach Performance Assessment System Prodromal psychosis
Alexander Buhk Area: Clinical Office: UH 1380 Phone: 419-530-2351 Alex.Buhk@rockets.utoledo.edu	Generalized anxiety disorder Emotion regulation Cardiovascular psychophysiology Mindfulness and acceptance Psychotherapy process and outcomes
Amy Capparelli Area: Experimental - Developmental Office: UH 1900F Phone: 419-530-2338 Amy.Capparelli@rockets.utoledo.edu	Animal assisted interviews Children in the legal system Rapport building & interviewing children False memories
Nikki Christ Area: Clinical Office: UH 5150J Phone:419-530-2312 Nicole.Christ@rockets.utoledo.edu	Symptoms of trauma exposure and PTSD Cardiovascular psychophysiology
Evan Clarkson Area: Experimental - Cognitive Office: UH 5015 Evan.Clarkson@rockets.utoledo.edu	Decision-making
Kelly Clemens Area: Experimental - Health Office: UH 6505 Kelly.Clemens@rockets.utoledo.edu	Placebo effects and treatment side effects Social factors influencing treatment adherence Social and cultural factors influencing health related help seeking Social barriers preventing access to woman's health services
Freeman Cumming Area: Experimental - Psychobiology Office: UH 5006 John.Cumming@rockets.utoledo.edu	Comparative mammalian hearing Behavior analysis Acoustics
Abigail Dempsey Area: Clinical Office: UH 5150J Abigail.Dempsey@rockets.utoledo.edu	Cyberpsychology
Susan Doyle Area: Clinical Office: UH 1880D Susan.Doyle@rockets.utoledo.edu	Child anxiety Parental influence on child anxiety Prevention programming for child anxiety
Keith Edmonds Area: Experimental - Social Office: UH 6510 Keith.Edmonds@rockets.utoledo.edu	Future directed thinking Disparities in health behaviors Social comparison Social cognition Substance abuse
Courtney Forbes Area: Clinical Office: UH 5030 Phone: 419-530-2701 Courtney.Forbes@rockets.utoledo.edu	Transdiagnostic mechanisms in mood and anxiety disorders Emotion dysregulation and health risk behaviors Mechanisms of change in evidence-based treatments
Elizabeth (Lizz) Gallinari Area: Experimental - Social Office: UH 6511 Elizabeth.Gallinari@rockets.utoledo.edu	Social comparison The impact of comparisons on social media How comparisons affect emotions and behavior
Caleb Hallauer Area: Clinical Office: UH 5150J Caleb.Hallauer@rockets.utoledo.edu	Internet gaming disorder Problematic social media use Trauma and technology use
Hannah Herc Area: Clinical Office: UH 6220 Hannah.Herc@rockets.utoledo.edu	Emotion regulation Coping skills Mindfulness Self-regulation
Noelle Herzog Area: Experimental Office: UH 6506 Noelle.Herzog@rockets.utoledo.edu	Social comparison Social media/cyberpsychology Attitude polarization Norm perception Risk vulnerability
Dingzhong Hu Area: Experimental - Cognitive Office: UH 5010B Dingzhong.Hu@rockets.utoledo.edu	Individual differences and similarities in aesthetic preference Psychological processes underlying the perception of art Objective analysis of art-related qualia
Justin R. Leiter-McBeth Area: Clinical Office: UH 6220 Justin.LeiterMcBeth@rockets.utoledo.edu	Mindfulness Emotion regulation Interoceptive awareness Psychophysiology
Jason Liou Area: Clinical Office: UH 6220 Jason.Liou@rockets.utoledo.edu	Mechanisms of change relating to suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, stress, and depression
Xin Lv Area: Clinical Office: UH 5070A Phone: 419-530-2574 Xin.Lv@rockets.utoledo.edu	Posttraumatic stress disorder Prevention and initial identification of PTSD
Shannon Manley Area: Clinical Office: UH 1880D Shannon.Manley@utoledo.edu	Child anxiety Social influences on child anxiety
Alyssa Mason Area: Clinical Office: UH 5010C Alyssa.Mason@utoledo.edu	Handedness Hemispheric Lateralization Memory Dsylexia
Emily Meadows Area: Clinical Office: UH 1880D Emily.Meadows@rockets.utoledo.edu	Internalizing and externalizing behavior problems among children and adolescents Development and implementation of school-based interventions Violence risk assessment for youth in schools and communities
Quincy Miller Area: Experimental - Developmental Office: UH 1900H Phone: 419-530-2388 Quincy.Miller@rockets.utoledo.edu	Forensic interviewing with children Child abuse disclosure
Emily O'Gorman Area: Clinical Office: UH 1069 Phone: 419-530-2724 Emily.Ogorman@rockets.utoledo.edu	Psychometrics and validity Dimensional structure of personality and personality disorders Personality development Transdiagnostic factors of personality and psychopathology
Samuel Oswald Area: Experimental Office: UH 6508 Samuel.Oswald@rockets.utoledo.edu	Social comparison theory Self-esteem Implicit measures Competitive video game performance
Christina Perez Area: Experimental - Developmental Office: UH 1900B Phone: 419-530-2338 Christina.Perez@rockets.utoledo.edu	Forensic developmental psychology Eyewitness testimony Children's memory and suggestibility
Ruam Pedro Francisco De Assis Pimentel Area: Experimental Office: UH 1069 Ruampedro.Franciscodeassispimentel@rockets.utoledo.edu	Personality Psychological assessment Neuroscience Data science
Kelsey Pritchard Area: Clinical Office: UH 6220 Kelsey.Pritchard@rockets.utoledo.edu	Emotion regulation Interpersonal processes Autonomic nervous system activity Depression and anxiety risk
Julia Richmond Area: Clinical Office: UH 5040A Julia.Richmond@rockets.utoledo.edu	Transgenerational transmission of borderline personality disorder Emotion regulation Parasympathetic nervous system activity Adolescent risk for developing borderline personality disorder
Emily Roemhild Area: Clinical Office: 1880D Emily.Roemhild@rockets.utoledo.edu	Parental influences on child/adolescent anxiety Role of familial accommodation in child/adolescent anxiety Role of emotion regulation and anxiety control in anxiety symptomology Self-efficacy in relation to anxiety development Early prevention and intervention Child and parent self-report disagreement on beliefs, behaviors, and anxiety symptomology
Emily Rooney Area: Clinical Office: UH 5150J Phone: 417-530-2312 Emily.Rooney@rockets.utoledo.edu	Trauma Risk and protective factors in the development of psychopathology Emotion regulation
Manali Roy Area: Clinical Office: UH 1062 Phone: 419-530-2411 Manali.Roy@rockets.utoledo.edu	Personality assessments, specifically the Rorschach Performance Assessment System Personality disorders with a focus on obsessive compulsive personality disorder
Kayla Scamaldo Area: Clinical Office: UH 5020B Kayla.Scamaldo@rockets.utoledo.edu	Emotion regulation and dysregulation in borderline personality disorder Substance abuse Experience sampling methods (e.g., ecological momentary assessment and electronically activated recorder Autonomic nervous system activity (e.g., heart rate variability, impedance, electrodermal activity)
Heather Schultz Area: Clinical Office: UH 1490 Phone: 419-530-2727 Heather.Schultz3@rockets.utoledo.edu	Severe and persistent mental illness Mental health community integration and rehabilitation programs What consumers of mental health services find most beneficial to their recovery
Shi (Jack) Shuai Area: Experimental - Cognitive Office: UH 5009 Shi.Shuai@rockets.utoledo.edu	Judgment and decision-making Individual differences Health decisions Marketplace decisions
Larson Sholander Area: Clinical Office: UH 1068 Phone: 419-530-2724 Larson.Sholander@rockets.utoledo.edu	Efficacy and limitations of personality assessments, particularly projective instruments such as the Rorschach The ways in which personality traits and personality disorders are revealed or manifested through social media
Tara Spitzen Area: Clinical Office: UH 5040B Tara.Spitzen@rockets.utoledo.edu	Suicide and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) Emotion dysregulation Emotion duration Relief Ecological momentary assessment (EMA)
Kristina Todorovic Area: Experimental - Developmental Office: UH 1900A kristina.Todorovic@rockets.utoledo.edu	Forensic developmental psychology Children's memory and suggestibility Interviewer-provided social support Juror decision making
Ariana Vidaña Area: Clinical Office: UH 5030 Phone: 419-530-2355 Ariana.Vidana@rockets.utoledo.edu	Emotion dysregulation in PTSD and substance use disorders Interpersonal relationships in substance use treatment Assessing substance use treatment outcomes in minority populations
Noelle Warfford Area: Clinical Office: UH 1062 Phone: 845-905-0457 Noelle.Warfford@rockets.utoledo.edu	Psychological assessment Assessing psychosis, particularly using the Rorschach Assessing disordered thinking

Department of Psychology

Meet Our Graduate Students

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