David M. Fresco, PhD
Associate Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Psychology
226 Kent Hall Annex
Phone:  330-672-4049
Fax:  330-672-3786
Email:fresco@kent.edu
Personal Website:http://www.personal.kent.edu/~dfresco
Shauna Clen
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2007)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Connecticut
Previous Experience: University of Connecticut Psychology Department, Yale University Department of Psychology, and Hawaii Clinical Research Center
Curriculum Vitae
Email:  sclen@kent.edu
Personal Website:
Research Interests:  The onset, maintenance, and treatment of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder with a focus on the roles of emotional regulation, cognitive appraisals of inner experiences, repetitive thought, mindfulness, decentering, willingness, and values-based action.
Master's Thesis: Mood effects of concrete versus abstract depressive rumination (Defended: March 2010)
Doctoral Candidacy Exam:The experimental induction of sadness: A meta-analytic review. (Defended: January 2011)
Jessica Flynn
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2009)
Undergraduate Institution: Queen's University
Master's Institution: Queen's University
Curriculum Vitae
Email:  jflynn12@kent.edu
Personal Website:
Research Interests:  The development of emotion dysregulation and the role of dysregulated emotions in the expression and emergence of mood and anxiety disorders; primarily generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder. The effect of acceptance and mindfulness techniques on emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and depression. Physiology of emotion. Dynamic systems.
Master's Thesis: The relations between emotion regulation and emotional acceptance in adolescent girls. (Defended: Fall 2009)
Natasha Kalaida
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2010)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan
Previous Research Experience: University of Michigan Dept of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Addiction Research Center.
Email: nkalaida@kent.edu
Personal Website:
Research Interests: Etiology, maintenance and treatment of MDD, GAD and other anxiety disorders; causes of emotion deregulation, such as increased generation of negative affect, dysfunctional suppression or enhancement of negative affect; mechanisms by which cognitive rigidity including worry, rumination and others can serve as maladaptive control mechanisms for negative affect. I am particularly interested in physiological measures (such as HR, GSR, ERP, EEG, fMRI) and correlates of affective, motivational and cognitive processes.
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.