People

Principal Investigator

Dr. Sean Lane

Dr. Sean Lane is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology. His substantive research focuses on emotion regulation processes, their downstream effects on health and relationship outcomes, and how these processes differ between healthy and clinical subgroups. He applies and develops statistical methodologies, with a focus on nonlinear models and dynamic systems in characterizing these processes. He has also applied these methods in more substantive research, including the optimization of alcohol use disorder classification and the role of alcohol use as an antecedent, consequent, and modifier of emotion regulation processes. His recent quantitative work (R01AA027264) involves developing methods for conducting power analyses for complex statistical models, including providing recommendations for starting parameters and feasible ranges under uncertainty. These methods are actively being built into an intuitive user interface guided by principles from user-centered design.

Graduate Students

Skye Napolitano

Doctoral Intern

UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine

snapolit@purdue.edu

Skye Napolitano joined Dr. Lane's lab in 2019. Her program of research focuses on understanding how individuals manage their emotional experiences, with particular interest in why and how this management breaks down (e.g., emotion dysregulation) and how to best intervene on harmful processes that maintain impairment in mood, anxiety, and personality disorders. She has substantial experience in quantitative analyses and multimethod (e.g., laboratory, psychophysiological, and intensive longitudinal) data collection and analysis. Currently, Skye is completing her clinical internship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in their Affective Neuroscience track. In her free time, Skye likes to lift weights, hike, take walks with her partner, explore the local area, and read.

Mairéad Willis

4th Year Clinical Psychology

Graduate Student

mwfcb@missouri.edu

Mairéad Willis joined the Regulation of Emotion, Addiction, and Conflict Trajectories lab as a graduate student in Fall 2021. She is interested in social emotion regulation processes across the lifespan, including emotion socialization, emotion co-regulation, and social learning of emotion regulation strategies. Prior to graduate studies, she worked for two years as the project coordinator on Dr. Lane and Dr. Erin Hennes’s Advanced Quantitative Methodology project at Purdue. While in that role, she volunteered as a research assistant in the REACT lab and with Dr. Marion Underwood’s Blackberry Project. Mairéad received her BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from the University of Notre Dame in 2018.

Katelyn Wasson

1st Year Quantitative Psychology Graduate Student

kwxwt@umsystem.edu

Katelyn Wasson joined the Regulation of Emotion, Addiction, and Conflict Trajectories lab as an undergraduate research assistant in Spring 2023 while attending Purdue University. Here, she earned her BS in Applied Statistics and Brain and Behavioral Sciences. As a graduate student at Mizzou, she is interested in psychometrics and its applications in psychopathology and educational measurement. She is also involved in Dr. Erin Hennes's MPower Lab. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music (anything rock & pop!), running & hiking, and all things crafts (embroidery, sewing, collaging - the list goes on).

Staff

trdvv@missouri.edu

Tongyao Ran

Lab Manager & Project Coordinator

Tongyao Ran joined the REACT Lab in the Summer of 2024 as a lab manager and project coordinator for the mpower project. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and obtained her M.S. in counseling in May 2024. She did her undergraduate at Beijing Foreign Studies University majoring in International Relations. In general, Ran's research interests include the intersection and classification of psychopathology and personality pathology, transdiagnostic constructs and processes, and how psychopathology is manifested and maintained in daily life.

gbianca.de.silva@duke.edu

Bianca DeSilva

Lab Manager

Bianca DeSilva joined the REACT Lab in the Fall of 2024 as a lab manager. She graduated from Duke University in 2024 with her B.S. in Psychology. During her undergraduate career, she completed a thesis in which she investigated the psychological impact of identity and resilience on the distress experienced by older adults with cancer. Her research interests include emotion regulation, its connection to psychopathologies, and factors that increase one's susceptibility to emotion dysregulation. In her free time, she enjoys tennis, hiking, and video games.

Undergrad RAs

bfsqwm@missouri.edu

Brooklyn Schultz

Brooklyn Schultz joined the Regulation of Emotion, Addiction, and Conflict Trajectories lab in the Fall of 2023 as an undergraduate research assistant for the College Well-Being Study. A current junior at the University of Missouri, she is on her way to obtaining her BA in Psychology, with a minor in Journalism. In general, she is interested in psychometrics as well as social learning and conformity, in relation to gender and religion. In her free time, she enjoys crocheting, reading, and photography.

splbkk@umsystem.edu

Sarah Luke

Sarah Luke joined the mpower lab in the spring of 2024. She is an undergraduate studying to get her B.S. in psychological sciences with minors in Spanish, Criminology, and Addiction Studies. She is interested in the application of psychological sciences in law enforcement, specially harm reduction in those with substance use disorders who find themselves in the criminal justice system. In her free time, she takes care of her small collection of plants and her leopard gecko.

nsdzkr@missouri.edu

Nya Dodd

Nya Dodd joined the REACT Lab Spring 2025. She is working to get her B.S. in Psychology and B.A. in Philosophy, with a minor in Sociology and certificates in Honors, Ethical Theory of Practice, Multicultural Studies, and Neuroscience. She is interested in personality disorders and how the symptomatology of these disorders relate to existential concerns such as death anxiety and anxiety about meaning and purpose in life. In her free time, she enjoys lifting weights, reading, and video games.

ekshhd@missouri.edu

Emily Sheluga

Emily Sheluga joined the REACT lab in the spring of 2025 as an undergraduate research assistant for the WEAR lab. She is currently studying to receive her BA in Psychology and BS in Business Administration with an emphasis in Management. Her research interests focus on the role of environmental factors in shaping mental health outcomes and social adaptability, with particular attention to workplace and criminal contexts. In her free time she enjoys listening to true crime podcasts, thrifting, and photography.

kmtdfv@missouri.edu

Kameron Trimble

Kameron Trimble joined the REACT lab in Spring 2025. He is an undergraduate research assistant studying for a B.S in psychology, a minor in biology and certificates in addiction studies, neuroscience and multicultural studies. He is interested in studying addiction and substance use disorders, as well as medical practices in the field of psychiatry. In his free time, he enjoys sports, video games and the outdoors.

PARSEC

Lab Mascot

PARSEC the peanut butter pillow (i.e., peanut butter filled pretzel) is the REACT lab mascot. He makes appearances in the form of slack reactions, attends lab meetings, and may appear on lab apparel. Lab members enjoy his positive energy!

Alumni

Annika Galloway was a research assistant during the summer of 2024 researching symptoms of alcohol use disorder that are more prevalent in those with bulimia nervosa.

Isabella Peckinpaugh was a research assistant from 2022-2024. She is now a Lab Manager in Dr. Maital Neta's Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (CAN) Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Alec Pedersen joined the REACT Lab in the Fall of 2020 as an undergraduate research assistant and after graduation in 2021 he stayed as a lab manager til 2023. Now Alec is a Ski & Snowboard Instructor in California.

Hailey Quintavalle joined the lab as a research assistant in the summer of 2023 through the University of Missouri’s summer research program.

Katie Jabaay joined the lab as a research assistant in the summer of 2023 through the University of Missouri’s summer research program.

Arija Simonaitis was a research assistant from 2021 - 2023. She is now enrolled at in a JD program at the University of Michigan.

Kara Moore was a research assistant from 2022 - 2023. She is now enrolled in a Master's of Social Work at IUPUI.

Belle Hineshaw was a research assistant from 2022 - 2023.

Ramya Anabarasu was a research assistant from 2022 - 2023. She is now enrolled in a Master's of Human Resource Management at Purdue.

Elizabeth Aslinger (PhD) was a graduate student in the REACT Lab from 2017 to 2022. She completed a PhD in Mathematical and Computational Psychology and is now a postdoc at Yale.

Katie Juarez was a research assistant from 2020 to 2022.

Sarah Jackson was a research assistant from 2021 to 2022. She is now a Clinical Research Technician at Indiana University.

Jillian Yakel was a research assistant from 2021 to 2022. She now works as a Crisis Services Sponsor and as a Eating Disorder Technician.

Rhema Merigala was a research assistant from 2021 - 2022.

Daniella Ferrante was a research assistant during the Summer of 2021.

Christine Rodriguez was a research assistant during the Summer of 2021.

Jordan Harris was a research assistant from 2020 - 2021. She now works as a Literacy Specialist at IUPUI.

Jack Behr was a research assistant in the from 2020 - 2021. He is now enrolled in PsyD program at Wright State University.

Kanika Garg was a research assisstant during the Fall of 2021.

Sydney Thoma was a research assisstant during the Fall of 2021.

Abigail McDonald was a research assisstant from 2019 - 2020. She is now enrolled in a Clinical Psychology PhD program at Arizona State University.

Cassandra Trumbower was a research assisstant from 2019 - 2020.

Selena (Amador) Scott was a research assisstant in the REACT Lab from 2018 - 2019. She went on to receive her M.S. in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, and is currently working on a M.S. in Information Systems.