Meet Our Graduate Students

Graduate Student	Research/Training Interests
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
Rachel Bond Area: Clinical Phone: 419-318-7004 Rachel.Bond@rockets.utoledo.edu	Social manifestations of generalized anxiety disorder Cyberpsychology Fear of missing out
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
Maria Elena Canini Area: Clinical MariaElena.Canini@rockets.utoledo.edu	Mindfulness and acceptance-based interventions Mindfulness interventions for the community - with incarcerated individuals, adolescents in juvenile detention and foster care, first responders, families, students, and women on their monthly cycle Emotion regulation and resiliency training
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
Bailey Crittenden Area: Clinical Erin.Crittenden@rockets.utoledo.edu	Youth personality vulnerability/risk factors to psychopathology Personality development Personality assessment
Raegan Cupp Area: Clinical Raegan.Cupp@rockets.utoledo.edu	Mindfulness interventions Mindfulness in school-based settings
Zachary DeMoss Area: Clinical Zachary.DeMoss@rockets.utoledo.edu	Suicide Emotion Regulation Psychophysiology
Ruam Pedro Francisco De Assis Pimentel Area: Experimental Office: UH 1069 Ruampedro.Franciscodeassispimentel@rockets.utoledo.edu	Personality Psychological assessment Neuroscience Data science
Estella Fox Area: Clinical Estella.Fox@rockets.utoledo.edu	Social media addiction Problematic phone use Emotion regulation
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
Riley Grady Area: Experimental Office: UH 1880A Riley.Grady@rockets.utoledo.edu	Children's experience in the legal system Children viewing police lineups Nervous laughter
Kayla Hall Area: Clinical Office: UH 5070B Kayla.Hall2@rockets.utoledo.edu	The roles of negative urgency, distress tolerance, and other emotion regulation strategies in the development/maintenance of PTSD Risk and resiliency factors in the development of PTSD and substance use diagnoses Interventions that target maladaptive coping in individuals with PTSD and substance use diagnoses
Caleb Hallauer Area: Clinical Office: UH 5150J Caleb.Hallauer@rockets.utoledo.edu	Internet gaming disorder Problematic social media use Trauma and technology use
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
Elyse Hutcheson Area: Clinical Office: UH 5070A Elyse.Hutcheson@rockets.utoledo.edu	Anxiety symptoms and technology use Intolerance of uncertainty in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders Problematic social media and smartphone use
Christopher Jurgens Area: Clinical Office: UH 5070C Christopher.Jurgens@rockets.utoledo.edu	Positive psychological interventions Online community psychology Theoretical processes of change in interventions
Ann Karmol Area: Experimental Ann.Karmol@rockets.utoledo.edu	Judgement and decision-making Heuristics and biases Individual differences Behavioral economics Science communication and misinformation Moral psychology
Lauren Kramer Area: Clinical Office: UH 1880D Lauren.Kramer3@rockets.utoledo.edu	Child/adolescent internalizing disorders Risk and resilience factors for child/adolescent psychopathology Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic construct Adverse childhood experiences Parental influence on child/adolescent anxiety
Andrew Kurtz Area: Clinical Office: UH 5040B Andrew.Kurtz6@rockets.utoledo.edu	Investigation of the contexts in which self-destructive behaviors occur in SGMs by using novel experimental paradigms Impact of invalidation and validation on maladaptive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors Prevention and treatment of self-destructive behaviors in sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) Emotion dysregulation and trauma in SGMs Development of culturally sensitive interventions to improve SGM health
Grace Kim Area: Experimental Grace.Kim2@rockets.utoledo.edu
Frances Lauten Area: Experimental Office: UH 1900 Frances.Lauten@rockets.utoledo.edu	Children's eating behaviors Preventative measures for disordered eating and eating disorders Impact of parental disordered eating on the eating patterns of their young children
Justin R. Leiter-McBeth Area: Clinical Justin.LeiterMcBeth@rockets.utoledo.edu	Mindfulness Emotion regulation Interoceptive awareness Psychophysiology
Adam Mann Area: Clinical Office: UH 5040A Adam.Mann2@rockets.utoledo.edu	Nonsuicidal self-injury Suicide Sexual and gender minority populations/LGBTQ
Samantha Mayer Area: Clinical Samantha.Mayer2@rockets.utoledo.edu	Trauma in the context of authority figures Trauma and health behavior
Ingrid Morales-Ramirez Area: Clinical Ingrid.Morales-Ramirez@rockets.utoledo.edu	Racial/ethnic minority groups Anxiety Positive psychology Depression First-generation college students
Samuel Oswald Area: Experimental Office: UH 6508 Samuel.Oswald@rockets.utoledo.edu	Social comparison theory Self-esteem Implicit measures Competitive video game performance
Emily Roemhild Area: Clinical 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
Jessica Saki Area: Experimental Jessica.Saki@rockets.utoledo.edu	Moral decision making Moral behaviors Moral dilemmas Emotion regulation Rejection
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)
Katherine Sheehan Area: Clinical Office: UH 5280 Katherine.Sheehan@rockets.utoledo.edu	Comorbid emotional dysregulation, especially suicidality/ self-injury, and anxiety disorders/ OCD Transdiagnostic symptoms presentations Improving treatment outcomes in cases with comorbidities Stigmatization of mental illness
Adelyn Sherrard Area: Experimental Adelyn.Sherrard@rockets.utoledo.edu	Children's eating behavior Parental feeding practices Coparenting
Alexa Skolnik Area: Clinical Office: UH 5280 Alexa.Skolnik@rockets.utoledo.edu	Person-specific mechanisms that drive etiology, maintenance, and treatment of traumatic stress disorders
Tara Spitzen Area: Clinical Tara.Spitzen@rockets.utoledo.edu	Suicide and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) Emotion dysregulation Emotion duration Relief Ecological momentary assessment (EMA)
Emily Spotts Area: Experimental Office: UH 6504 Emily.Jason@rockets.utoledo.edu	Placebo/nocebo effects and treatment side effects Alteration of treatment perceptions Effects of message types on treatment choice
Mackenzie Trevethan Area: Clinical Office: UH 1880D Mackenzie.Trevethan@rockets.utoledo.edu	Child anxiety Familial relationships Early prevention and intervention Minority populations
Michael Vang Area: Experimental Office: UH 6509 Michael.Vang@rockets.utoledo.edu	Preventative health behaviors Physician-patient communication Placebo and nocebo effect
Teona Velehorschi Area: Clinical Teona.Velehorschi@rockets.utoledo.edu	Stress and anxiety, particularly in performance settings Physical exercise and emotion regulation strategies Clinical sport psychology
Ariana Vidaña Area: Clinical 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
Avleen Walia Area: Clinical Avleen.Walia@rockets.utoledo.edu	Risk and resilience factors for child anxiety, rumination, and obsessive thinking Specific parenting behaviors influencing child anxiety and emotino regulation abilities Prevention of child anxiety and emotion dysregulation South Asian populations
Noelle Warfford Area: Clinical Noelle.Warfford@rockets.utoledo.edu	Psychological assessment Assessing psychosis, particularly using the Rorschach Assessing disordered thinking
Joshua Williams Area: Experimental Joshua.Williams10@rockets.utoledo.edu	Anxiety in the context of technology use, acceptance Social capital Locus of control, self-efficacy

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