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	Stress and coping Chronic illness self-management Health behavior Principles of change (e.g., psychological flexibility) Psychotherapy processes and outcomes
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
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
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
Abigail Dempsey Area: Clinical Office: UH 5150J Abigail.Dempsey@rockets.utoledo.edu	Cyberpsychology
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
Alyssa Mason Area: Clinical Office: UH 5010C Alyssa.Mason@utoledo.edu	Handedness Hemispheric Lateralization Memory Dsylexia
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
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
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)
Shi (Jack) Shuai Area: Experimental - Cognitive Office: UH 5009 Shi.Shuai@rockets.utoledo.edu	Judgment and decision-making Individual differences Health decisions Marketplace decisions
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

Graduate Student

Research/Training Interests