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David M. Fresco, PhD Professor Curriculum Vitae Department of Psychological Sciences 226 Kent Hall Annex Phone: 330-672-4049 Fax: 330-672-3786 Email:fresco@kent.edu Personal Website:http://www.personal.kent.edu/~dfresco |
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Joshua Pollock, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Fellow, PERL & KENL Graduate Institution: University of Akron Previous Research Experience: University of Akron EEG Laboratory Email: jpollo10@kent.edu Research Interests: I am interested in the neurophysiological markers of emotion regulation, emotional arousal, and cognitive regulation. My research utilizes neuroimaging approaches such as EEGs to investigate these processes and to look for a relationship between good performance on them and healthy aging. Dissertation: Modeling Age Differences in Real World Decision Making (Defended: May 2014) |
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Monica Fallon, M.A. Project Coordinator, Serenity Study Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona Master's Institution: University of Arizona Previous Research Experience: Grief, Loss, and Social Stress Laboratory Email: mfallon4@kent.edu Research Interests: I am interested in psychoneuroimmunology and the mechanisms in which stress contributes to the pathology of psychological disorders and chronic illnesses. Additionally, I am interested in novel and innovative methods that reduce stress as well as the effects of social support and mindfulness-based interventions in improving prognosis. Master's Thesis: The effects of yearning on the HPA-axis: Reactivity to a virtual trier social stress test (Defended: May 2014) |
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Megan Strowger, M.S. Project Coordinator, Serenity Study Undergraduate Institution: Drexel University Master’s Insitution: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Previous Research Experience: Social Anxiety Treatment and Research Program, Eating Disorder Research Program, Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab Phone: 330-672-2201 Email: mstrowge@kent.edu Research Interests: I am interested in the mechanisms of interoception and what role it plays in dispositional mindfulness and emotion processing. Particular clinical populations of interest are individuals with anxiety and mood disorders. My recent research utilized an interoceptive sound manipulation to see if exteroceptive exposure to interoceptive sounds would elicit demonstrable changes in emotional theory of mind and emotion recognition. Master’s Thesis: Interoceptive Sounds and Emotion Recognition (Defended: July 2016) |
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Kathrine Shepherd Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2011) Undergraduate Institution: Skidmore College Previous Research Experience: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Email: kshephe9@kent.edu Personal Website: Research Interests: Emotional processing dynamics in major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder; Implicit and explicit emotion regulation; Cognitive, neural, and physiological predictors of treatment response in mood disorders. Master's Thesis: Decentering from distress: Regulating negative emotion by increasing psychological distance (Defended: March 2014) |
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Luke Heggeness |
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Stanley Seah Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2016) Undergraduate Institution: National University of Singapore Previous Research Experience: Department of Psychological Medicine, National University Hospital (Singapore); Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore - Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation Lab; Pain Lab. Email: tseah@kent.edu Personal Website: Research Interests: Depression; emotion regulation; mindfulness and acceptance-based interventions; neural/biological markers and mechanisms of treatment |
| Visiting Scholars | |
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Layla PERL Mascot Research Interests: Mindfulness-based dog therapy (MBDT); separation anxiety; behavioral predictors of treat reception; structural equation modeling. |
