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Department of Psychology

Meet Our Graduate Students

Graduate Student

Research/Training Interests

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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
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Rachel Bond

Area: Clinical
Rachel.Bond@rockets.utoledo.edu

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  • Social manifestations of generalized anxiety disorder
  • Cyberpsychology
  • Fear of missing out
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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
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Maria Elena Canini

Area: Clinical
MariaElena.Canini@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Mindfulness and acceptance-based interventionsÌý
  • 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
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Elizabeth Champlin

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

  • Motivation and performance
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Bailey Crittenden

Area: Clinical
Erin.Crittenden@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Youth personality vulnerability/risk factors to psychopathology
  • Personality development
  • Personality assessment
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Raegan Cupp

Area: Clinical
Raegan.Cupp@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Mindfulness interventions
  • Mindfulness in school-based settings
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Zachary DeMoss

Area: Clinical
Zachary.DeMoss@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Suicide
  • Emotion Regulation
  • Psychophysiology
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Estella Fox

Area: Clinical
Estella.Fox@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Social media addiction
  • Problematic phone use
  • Emotion regulation
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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
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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
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Christopher Jurgens

Area: Clinical
Office: UH 5070C
Christopher.Jurgens@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Positive psychological interventions
  • Online community psychology
  • Theoretical processes of change in interventions
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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
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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
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Grace Kim

Area: Experimental
Grace.Kim2@rockets.utoledo.edu

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

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

  • Hemispheric differences in belief updating
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Adam Mann

Area: Clinical
Office: UH 5040A
Adam.Mann2@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Nonsuicidal self-injury
  • Suicide
  • Sexual and gender minority populations/LGBTQ
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Samantha Mayer

Area: Clinical
Samantha.Mayer2@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Trauma in the context of authority figures
  • Trauma and health behavior
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Ingrid Morales-Ramirez

Area: Clinical
Ingrid.Morales-Ramirez@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Racial/ethnic minority groups
  • Anxiety
  • Positive psychology
  • Depression
  • First-generation college students
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Jessica Saki

Area: Experimental
Jessica.Saki@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Moral decision making
  • Moral behaviors
  • Moral dilemmas
  • Emotion regulation
  • Rejection
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Vasavi ShanthiÌý

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

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

Area: Experimental
Adelyn.Sherrard@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Children's eating behavior
  • Parental feeding practices
  • Coparenting
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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
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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
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Mackenzie Tanner

Area: Clinical
Office: UH 1880D
Mackenzie.Trevethan@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Child anxiety
  • Familial relationships
  • Early prevention and intervention
  • Minority populations
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Michael Vang

Area: Experimental
Office: UH 6509
Michael.Vang@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Preventative health behaviors
  • Physician-patient communication
  • Placebo and nocebo effect
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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
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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
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Noelle Warfford

Area: Clinical
Noelle.Warfford@rockets.utoledo.edu

  • Psychological assessment
  • Assessing psychosis, particularly using the Rorschach
  • Assessing disordered thinking
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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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