Department of Psychology

Meet Our Graduate Students

Graduate Student

Research/Training Interests

 

Jake Avendano

Area: Clinical
Jacob.Avendano@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Emotional flexibility, specifically context sensitivity and ER strategy repertoire
  • Emotion (dys)regulation, as measured by ecological momentary assessments
 

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
 

Caroline Born

Area: Clinical
Caroline.Born@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Adaptive regulation/coping skills in populations with severe mental illness
  • Crisis-related interventions
  • Suicidality
  • Third-wave CBT modalities
 

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
 

Elizabeth Champlin

Area: Experimental
Elizabeth.Champlin@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Motivation and performance
 

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

  • Judgment 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

  • Race on perceptions of child sexual abuse
  • False memory
  • False accusations
  • Eyewitness testimony
 

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
 

Steven Lenarduzzi

Area: Experimental
Steven.Lenarduzzi@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Hemispheric differences in belief updating
 

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 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)
 

Vasavi Shanthi 

Area: Clinical
Vasavi.Shanthi@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Problematic smartphone use, problematic social media use, internet addictions
  • Body image and eating disorders in adolescence. 
 

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
 

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
 
Last Updated: 10/26/23