University of Toledo Psychology
@utoledopsych.bsky.social
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/
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Congrats, Dr. Spotts!
Incredibly happy to share that I recently graduated with my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. I am eternally grateful to the University of Toledo and its faculty (especially my advisor, Dr. Andrew Geers) for my fantastic experience. Looking forward to wherever life takes me next!
December 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Congrats, Dr. Spotts!
Congratulations to Dr. O'Connor on this publication in Behavior Genetics' special issue "Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science: Impacts and Implications".
Happy to share this recent pub:
Non-white identities, lower income, & mistrust in research were associated with lower willingness to participate in genetic research. Increased transparency, community partnership, and equitable compensation may increase willingness
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Non-white identities, lower income, & mistrust in research were associated with lower willingness to participate in genetic research. Increased transparency, community partnership, and equitable compensation may increase willingness
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Who is Willing to Participate in Genetic Research? Exploring Barriers and Predictors - Behavior Genetics
The lack of racial and ethnic diversity in samples used within the field of human genetics research has been well-documented. However, factors driving the under-representation of individuals who are n...
link.springer.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Congratulations to Dr. O'Connor on this publication in Behavior Genetics' special issue "Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science: Impacts and Implications".
Congratulations, Dr. Geers!
We are excited to share that Dr. Geers has co-authored a new book chapter titled “The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Special Case of Placebo and Nocebo Effects” in Placebo Effects in Neurology (Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol. 213).
Read more here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41161963/
Read more here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41161963/
The COVID-19 pandemic: a special case of placebo and nocebo effects - PubMed
In late 2019, reports of pneumonia from an unknown cause marked the beginning of an unprecedented health crisis with far-reaching societal consequences. The ensuing global pandemic placed immense strain on healthcare systems, disrupted economies, and altered the way that we work, communicate, and in …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Congratulations, Dr. Geers!
Congrats to Liz O'Donoghue on this important milestone! We are so proud! 👏
Congratulations to my grad student, Liz O’Donoghue, for successfully proposing her masters thesis today- exploring jurors’ use of prior bad act evidence in sex crimes vs robbery
Great job Liz!
Great job Liz!
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Congrats to Liz O'Donoghue on this important milestone! We are so proud! 👏
Another student-led publication from Dr. Elhai's lab! Congratulations, Sana Alavinikoo & Elyse Hutcheson! Great work!
Congrats to my students for our new paper published today. Intolerance of Uncertainty Mediates the Relationship Between Social Anxiety and Problematic Smartphone Use Severity in College Students.
Fulltext:
www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/15...
Fulltext:
www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/15...
www.mdpi.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Another student-led publication from Dr. Elhai's lab! Congratulations, Sana Alavinikoo & Elyse Hutcheson! Great work!
Congratulations to graduate student, Vasavi Shanthi, on her recent first-author publication. And to her mentor, Dr. Elhai!
Congrats to my student Vasavi Shanthi for her new paper published today. Depression and anxiety in association with problematic social media use severity and the mediating role of distress tolerance. Full text available:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Depression and anxiety in association with problematic social media use severity and the mediating role of distress tolerance - Discover Psychology
A large amount of research has found psychopathology related to increased problematic social media use (PSMU). Yet little research has examined affective or cognitive process variables that may accoun...
link.springer.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Congratulations to graduate student, Vasavi Shanthi, on her recent first-author publication. And to her mentor, Dr. Elhai!
Our graduate students celebrated successfully presenting their study proposals in their final Research Design & Eval class on Monday with the help of some Krispy Kreme doughnuts!
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Our graduate students celebrated successfully presenting their study proposals in their final Research Design & Eval class on Monday with the help of some Krispy Kreme doughnuts!
🎉 Huge congrats to Dr. Joni Mihura on the release of "The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology Assessment"! And cheers to Dr. Greg Meyer and grad student Kim Görner for their chapter contributions!
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November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
🎉 Huge congrats to Dr. Joni Mihura on the release of "The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology Assessment"! And cheers to Dr. Greg Meyer and grad student Kim Görner for their chapter contributions!
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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
November 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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
📣 We’re hiring! Tenure-track position open in the Department of Psychology to support our Clinical and/or Experimental Psychology PhD programs. Apply today! 🧠 #AcademicJobs #PsychScience
Please share widely!
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Assistant Professor, Psychology
The Department of Psychology at the University of Toledo invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Clinical or Experimental Psychology. We welcome applicants whose scholarship add...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
📣 We’re hiring! Tenure-track position open in the Department of Psychology to support our Clinical and/or Experimental Psychology PhD programs. Apply today! 🧠 #AcademicJobs #PsychScience
Please share widely!
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Please share widely!
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No tricks—just treats for a great cause! 🎃 Give to the Psychology Progress Fund during the Spooktacular Giving Challenge and help support general and priority needs of the University of Toledo's Psychology Department!
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Spooktacular Giving Challenge
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October 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
No tricks—just treats for a great cause! 🎃 Give to the Psychology Progress Fund during the Spooktacular Giving Challenge and help support general and priority needs of the University of Toledo's Psychology Department!
www.givecampus.com/schools/TheU...
www.givecampus.com/schools/TheU...
"She’s not like a regular department chair, she’s a cool department chair." 😎
Psychology Chair, @kamala-london.bsky.social, surprised our graduate students by rolling up (literally) to the psych graduate student homecoming tailgate this past weekend. 🛼
Psychology Chair, @kamala-london.bsky.social, surprised our graduate students by rolling up (literally) to the psych graduate student homecoming tailgate this past weekend. 🛼
October 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"She’s not like a regular department chair, she’s a cool department chair." 😎
Psychology Chair, @kamala-london.bsky.social, surprised our graduate students by rolling up (literally) to the psych graduate student homecoming tailgate this past weekend. 🛼
Psychology Chair, @kamala-london.bsky.social, surprised our graduate students by rolling up (literally) to the psych graduate student homecoming tailgate this past weekend. 🛼
🍂Kicking off the fall semester with great company! Psychology faculty and graduate students came together to welcome a new year of learning, research, and community.
October 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
🍂Kicking off the fall semester with great company! Psychology faculty and graduate students came together to welcome a new year of learning, research, and community.
More amazing news from the University of Toledo's Social Health Lab! 🎉
Dr. Geers and Emily Spotts were awarded a grant for $2,500 from the Center for Open Science (COS) as part of the “Replicability Project: Health Behavior,” which is a large-scale, multi-team effort to replicate published quantitative health research studies.
Congratulation!
Congratulation!
September 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
More amazing news from the University of Toledo's Social Health Lab! 🎉
👏 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!
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...
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...
Cyberpsychology
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September 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
👏 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!
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. 🎉
We're proud to see their collaborative research representing our department. 🎉
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
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We examined the independent and combined contributions of nocebo education and attribute framing on psychological health-related outcomes. #ABM
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Comparing the effects of message framing and nocebo education on psychological outcomes
This study examines the independent contributions of nocebo education and attribute framing in changing psychological measures related to health behaviors,
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September 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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. 🎉
We're proud to see their collaborative research representing our department. 🎉
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.
June 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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.
Congrats to Dr. Elhai and his team on their recent publication!
Our new paper is out. Full-text is available for free via open access.
FOMO’s apprehension of missing out and constant connection desire dimensions differentially correlate with problematic smartphone and social media use, but not with depression or generalized anxiety
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
FOMO’s apprehension of missing out and constant connection desire dimensions differentially correlate with problematic smartphone and social media use, but not with depression or generalized anxiety
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Redirecting
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June 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Congrats to Dr. Elhai and his team on their recent publication!
Major congratulations to the 2025 graduates of UToledo's Clinical Psychology PhD program: Rachel Bond, Bailey Crittenden, Raegan Cupp, Elyse Hutcheson, Christopher Jurgens, Adam Mann, Mackenzie Tanner, and Noelle Morgan!
We are so proud of you!🙌
We are so proud of you!🙌
May 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Major congratulations to the 2025 graduates of UToledo's Clinical Psychology PhD program: Rachel Bond, Bailey Crittenden, Raegan Cupp, Elyse Hutcheson, Christopher Jurgens, Adam Mann, Mackenzie Tanner, and Noelle Morgan!
We are so proud of you!🙌
We are so proud of you!🙌
Congratulations to our doctoral student in Experimental Psychology, Grace! 🎉
Congratulations to my doctoral student Grace Kim for being the recipient of the 2025 Diversity in Child Maltreatment Student Research Award!
April 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Congratulations to our doctoral student in Experimental Psychology, Grace! 🎉
Well deserved! Congratulations, Legend! 👏
Undergraduate student Legend Coleman is the recipient of the 2025 Dean's Leadership and Engagement Award at the University of Toledo. This is a great achievement!
Congrats, Legend!
Congrats, Legend!
April 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Well deserved! Congratulations, Legend! 👏
Congratulations to the current and former doctoral students in the Forensic Developmental Psychology Lab led by @kamala-london.bsky.social, who presented at the American Psych-Law Society Conference earlier this month!
April 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Congratulations to the current and former doctoral students in the Forensic Developmental Psychology Lab led by @kamala-london.bsky.social, who presented at the American Psych-Law Society Conference earlier this month!
Amazing news! Congratulations to graduate student, Emily Spotts (@emily-k-spotts.bsky.social)! 🎉
Doctoral candidate Emily Spotts was recognized as one of the University of Toledo's Outstanding Graduate Students of the Year for her recent scholarly contributions. Congratulations, Emily!
April 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Amazing news! Congratulations to graduate student, Emily Spotts (@emily-k-spotts.bsky.social)! 🎉
Undergraduate students - Abigail Brighton, Julianne Holtsberry, and Danielle Oldfield - and graduate students - Frances Lauten and Adelyn Sherrard - of the Family & Child Development Lab recently presented research at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference. Congratulations!
April 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Undergraduate students - Abigail Brighton, Julianne Holtsberry, and Danielle Oldfield - and graduate students - Frances Lauten and Adelyn Sherrard - of the Family & Child Development Lab recently presented research at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference. Congratulations!
Congratulations to our amazing faculty members for their years of service!
👏 Dr. Cin Cin Tan– 5 years
👏 Drs. Sarah Francis & Peter Mezo– 10 years
👏 Drs. Jon Elhai & Jason Rose– 15 years
Your commitment makes a lasting impact on our department!
📷: Drs. Francis & London at the Milestone Celebration
👏 Dr. Cin Cin Tan– 5 years
👏 Drs. Sarah Francis & Peter Mezo– 10 years
👏 Drs. Jon Elhai & Jason Rose– 15 years
Your commitment makes a lasting impact on our department!
📷: Drs. Francis & London at the Milestone Celebration
April 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Congratulations to our amazing faculty members for their years of service!
👏 Dr. Cin Cin Tan– 5 years
👏 Drs. Sarah Francis & Peter Mezo– 10 years
👏 Drs. Jon Elhai & Jason Rose– 15 years
Your commitment makes a lasting impact on our department!
📷: Drs. Francis & London at the Milestone Celebration
👏 Dr. Cin Cin Tan– 5 years
👏 Drs. Sarah Francis & Peter Mezo– 10 years
👏 Drs. Jon Elhai & Jason Rose– 15 years
Your commitment makes a lasting impact on our department!
📷: Drs. Francis & London at the Milestone Celebration