Graduate Students
Fall 2025 Cohort
Regina Campbell
- Evolutionary psychology
- Mate selection
- Decision making and food selection
Sreyashi Sen
- Development of children’s eating behaviors
- Eating pathology in children, including emotional eating and eating in the absence of hunger
- Parenting and food parenting practices
- Body image concerns and dieting in both parents and children
- Body image dissatisfaction and its developmental trajectory in early life, particularly during adolescence
Fall 2024 Cohort
Mercedes Stanek
Area Experimental
Office UH 1880D
Email mercedes.stanek@rockets.utoledo.edu
Degree B.S., Psychology, Ohio Northern University, 2024
Advisor Kamala London Newton, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
- Eyewitness and earwitness accuracy
- Interviewing practices
- Base rate perceptions
Fall 2023 Cohort
Elizabeth Champlin
Area Experimental
Office UH 5011
Email Elizabeth.Champlin@rockets.utoledo.edu
Degree B.A., Psychology, The Ohio State University, 2020
Advisor J.D. Jasper, Ph.D.
Research Interest:
- Motivation and performance
Steven Lenarduzzi
Area Experimental
Email Steven.Lenarduzzi@rockets.utoledo.edu
Degrees B.A., Psychology, Ohio University, 2016
M.A., Experimental Psychology, Cleveland State University, 2022
Advisor Stephen Christman, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
- Belief updating
- Abstract thinking
- Confirmation bias
- Hemispheric differences (handedness)
Elizabeth O’Donoghue
Area Experimental
Office UH 1880D
Degree B.A., Psychology, SUNY Purchase, 2012
Advisor Kamala London Newton, Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Forensic psychology
- Juror decision-making processes
Fall 2022 Cohort
Grace Kim
Area Experimental
Office UH 1900H
Email Grace.Kim2@rockets.utoledo.edu
Degrees B.A., Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California Irvine, 2020
B.A., Criminology Law and Society, UCI, 2020
Advisor Kamala London Newton, Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Race effects on child sexual abuse perceptions
- False memory
- False accusations
- Eyewitness testimony
Frances Lauten
Area Experimental
Office UH 1900
Email frances.lauten@rockets.utoledo.edu
Degrees B.A., Psychology, Sewanee: University of the South, 2018
M.A., Developmental Psychology, San Francisco State University, 2022
Advisor Cin Cin Tan, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
- 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
Fall 2021 Cohort
Riley Grady
Area Experimental
Office UH 1880A
Email Riley.Grady@rockets.utoledo.edu
Degree B.S., Forensic Psychology, Western Illinois University, 2021
Advisor Kamala London Newton, Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Children’s experience in the legal system
- Children viewing police lineups
- Nervous laughter
Emily Spotts
Area Experimental
Office UH 6504
Email Emily.Jason@rockets.utoledo.edu
Degree B.A., Psychology, University of Toledo, 2020
Advisor Andrew Geers, Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Placebo/nocebo effects and treatment side effects
- Alteration of treatment perceptions
- Effects of message types on treatment choice
Michael Vang
Area Experimental
Office UH 6509
Email Michael.Vang@rockets.utoledo.edu
Degree B.A., Public Health, University of California at Merced, 2021
Advisor Andrew Geers, Ph.D.
Research Interests
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Motivation, treatment expectation, affect, and treatment responses.
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Food parenting, emotion dysregulation, and eating behaviors
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Message framing
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Culture and cross-cultural research
Joshua Williams
Area Experimental
Email Joshua.Williams10@rockets.utoledo.edu
Degree B.A., Psychology and Sociology (Honors), University of Toledo, 2021
Advisor Jon Elhai, Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Anxiety in the context of technology use, acceptance
- Social capital
- Locus of control, self-efficacy
