Graduate Students
Fall 2026 Cohort
Ryan Bearden
- Judgment and decision making
- Individual differences in decision making
- Decision making under risk and uncertainty
Kadence Hahn
- Risk-related processes
- Decision making within forensic contexts
- Trauma
- Emotion regulation
Sydney Mockensturm
- Nocebo/placebo effects and treatment side effects
- Health communications and treatment engagement
- Health-related decision-making
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
Education 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
Education 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
Education 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
Education 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
Education 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
Education 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
