University of Toledo Psychology

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Welcome to the official University of Toledo Department of Psychology. Stay up to date on news around the department, upcoming events, and much more! https://www.utoledo.edu/jhc/psychology/

“The University of Toledo has a strong emphasis on research. I was able to get involved in research very early on as a freshman, which isn’t necessarily the case at much larger institutions." -Darine Schreidah, a psychology major in @socialhealthlab.bsky.social news.utoledo.edu/index.php/10...

From Research to Service, UToledo Student Explores the Human Side of Medicine | UToledo News

Through research and community service, psychology major Darine Schreidah is preparing for a career focused on helping others.

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Our annual Department of Psychology Research Showcase featured outstanding research by UToledo students! Undergraduate and graduate researchers—alongside local high school collaborators—shared their work with faculty and peers, highlighting the impactful research happening in our department.

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Congrats to Abby Regal on winning the Outstanding Trainee and Conference Theme Abstract Award from the Women’s Health SIG at the Society of Behavioral Medicine annual conference! 🎉 Abby will join the UToledo’s Clinical Psychology PhD program under Dr. Shannon O’Connor this fall —welcome, Abby!

PHAB Lab@phablab-pitt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@abbyregal.bsky.social presented her poster on the Associations between the Four Domain Food Insecurity Scale Scores and Mental Health Outcomes in a Pregnant Sample. She was also awarded the Outstanding Trainee and Conference Theme Abstract Award from the Women's Health SIG!

Congrats to Psych undergraduate, Darine! 🎉 She’s matched with Neurology, where she’ll help benchmark hospital safety for Parkinson’s patients and contribute to data-driven improvements in care. She’ll also shadow a variety of medical settings and present her research at a final poster session.

@socialhealthlab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Darine Schreidah, a psychology major at the University of Toledo, has been selected for the Northwestern Medicine Pre-Med Internship Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She will be involved on different projects and clinical shadowing. Congrats!

Congrats to grad student Riley Grady (& co-authors Quincy Miller, Kamala London, & Elizabeth Loftus) for her recently accepted paper in Memory! Findings highlight that U.S. adults endorse believing in traumatic unconscious repressed memories at high rates (94%), especially women with lower education

👏 Big shoutout to Clinical Psychology graduate students, Caleb Hallauer & Elyse Hutcheson, and Psychology faculty, Dr. Jon Elhai for their recent publication in the Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace! Check out their latest work!

Jon Elhai@jonelhai.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats to my collaborator Nisha Yao for leading this project, now in print. Full text access is below. Fear of missing out mediates the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and problematic smartphone use severity. cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

Congratulations to Emily Spotts (Experimental Psychology PhD student), Legend Coleman (undergraduate Psychology alum), and Dr. Andrew Geers (Psychology faculty member) on their recent publication! We're proud to see their collaborative research representing our department. 🎉

Emily Spotts@emily-k-spotts.bsky.social · last yr.

New brief report in Annals of Behavioral Medicine from our lab team: academic.oup.com/abm/article-... We examined the independent and combined contributions of nocebo education and attribute framing on psychological health-related outcomes. #ABM @sbm.org

Undergraduate student researcher Sydney Mockensturm and faculty member Dr. Andrew Geers recently attended the 5th International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies in Poland. Sydney and Dr. Geers both presented on the mechanisms of the placebo and nocebo effects.

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