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Dr. Sean Lane
Principal Investigator
Dr. Sean Lane is an Assistant 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.
Email: lanesp@missouri.edu
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Skye Napolitano
4th Year Clinical Psychology Graduate Student
Skye Napolitano studies emotion regulation, time perception, and affective processing in individuals who struggle with emotion dysregulation. Before studying at Purdue University, she lived in Cleveland, OH, for three years where she completed an M.A. in Clinical Psychology with Dr. Ilya Yaroslavsky and then worked as a statistical consultant for Northeast Ohio Medical School. In her research, she employs multimethod assessment of emotion, including self-report, experimental inductions, and daily life measurement to capture affective processing and emotional/behavioral dysregulation across contexts. Her newest proposed work will incorporate psychophysiology to explore how time perception contributes to emotional processing. She also works with Dr. Lane and Dr. Hennes on the SuperPower project, extracting data for meta-analyses on treatments for Alcohol Use Disorder. In her free time, she loves to lift weights, hike, take walks with her partner, hang out with her incredible, supportive program buddies, explore the local area, find new places to eat, and read.
Email: snapolit@purdue.edu
Mairéad Willis
2nd Year Clinical Psychology Graduate Student
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.
Email: mwfcb@missouri.edu
Alec Pedersen
Lab Manager
Alec Pedersen joined the REACT Lab in the Fall of 2020 as an undergraduate research assistant. He graduated from Purdue University in 2021 with his B.S in Psychological Sciences and B.A. in Law & Society. In addition to being the lab manger for the REACT Lab, he works with the SuperPower lab to assist their meta-analysis. His research interests are in personality and psychedelic assisted therapy. Specifically, he is interested in (1) how personality may predict challenging psychedelic experiences, and (2) personality change as an outcome of psychedelic interventions. In his free time he enjoys yoga, hiking, board-sports (skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, and skimboarding), video games, playing the drums, and drinking craft beer with friends.
Email: awpwx7@missouri.edu
Research Assistants
Isabella Peckinpaugh is a sophomore majoring in Psychological Sciences and minoring in Spanish. She is mainly interested in researching the criminal justice system with interests in socioeconomic factors, prejudice, and personality pathology. Specifically, she is interested in relating the research to the prevention of and better handling of violent crimes such as sexual assault. Additionally, she has an interest in a variety of other research topics as well.
Email: ipeckinp@purdue.edu
Katie Jabaay is a rising senior at Loyola University Chicago majoring in Psychology with Neuroscience, Bioethics, and Gender Studies minors. Katie joined the REACT lab in the summer of 2023 through the University of Missouri’s summer research program. Katie’s specialization in ethics and gender studies has led her primary research interests to be how various identities and experiences affect one’s psychopathology and the mental health outcomes of affirmative care for LBGTQ+ people. In addition, she also enjoys spending time outdoors, yoga, sweet treats, tea, and is learning to crochet.
Email: kmjdc7@missouri.edu
Hailey Quintavalle is a undergraduate student at St. Lawrence University. She is double majoring in Statistics and Psychology. She is interested in the connections between mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders, among a range of other research topics. She plans on applying to Clinical Psychology PhD programs in the future.
Email: hq2v2@missouri.edu
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
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.
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