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
Mairéad Willis
4th 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.
Katelyn Wasson
2nd Year Quantitative Psychology Graduate Student
Katelyn Wasson joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant in Spring 2023 while attending Purdue University. Here, she earned BS degrees in both Applied Statistics and Brain and Behavioral Sciences. Now at Mizzou as a quantitative psychology student, she is interested in enhancing the classification of psychopathology and diagnostic comorbidity through advanced measurement approaches. In addition to REACT, she is also involved in Drs. Erin Hennes and Sean Lane's mpower lab and Dr. Clintin Davis-Stober's Decision Theory lab. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, running & hiking, crafting, and cuddling with her cat, Nezuko.
Affiliate Graduate Students
Tongyao Ran
Affiliate Graduate Student
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.
Post-Baccalaureate Students
Bianca DeSilva
Post-Baccalaureate Student
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
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. ​
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.​
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.​​​​​
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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.
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.
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Venessa Truong
Hi! My name is Vanessa Truong, and I am currently a senior at Mizzou. I am a psychology major and I work as a research assistant for the REACT Lab. My independent research is with a memory lab here on campus and focuses on the forward and backward search strategies involved in memory recall. Next year, I plan to start my MSW program at Washington University in St. Louis. I also love to ice skate in my free time! It is so nice to meet you all!
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!
