Peyton Brock
Peyton joined the MAPS lab in 2024. She earned her B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Creative Writing from Virginia Tech in 2021. During her undergraduate studies, Peyton gained experience in various research labs focusing on emotion socialization, psychopathology, and personality. After graduation, she spent three years as a lab manager and research coordinator in the Translational Emotion Neuroscience and Development Lab at San Diego State University. There, she led behavioral data collection efforts for an R01 study investigating the neural mechanisms underlying irritability. Peyton’s research interests now center on exploring the intricate relationship between interpersonal dysfunction and emotion regulation in mood and personality disorders, with a particular focus on borderline personality pathology. She can be reached at brock.314@buckeyemail.osu.edu.
Daniel Brunette
Daniel joined the MAPS lab in 2020. He completed his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, where he earned high honors in psychology with additional majors in sociology and statistics. At NU, Daniel researched the impact of mindfulness meditation on the intrusion of difficult thoughts as well as aiding in the adaption of couples ACT workshops for low SES and Latinx communities. In his senior year, he independently developed an Honors Thesis related to his research interest of ‘personalized treatment.’ For his Honors Thesis, Daniel investigated potential moderators impacting outcomes of two brief emotion regulation techniques, cognitive reappraisal and defusion. Daniel is primarily interested in studying the individualization of psychotherapy by understanding what mechanisms and features work for whom in what circumstances, in order to improve treatment outcome. Contact Daniel at brunette.4@osu.edu.
Cameryn Cooley
Cameryn joined the MAPS lab in 2022 after graduating from New York University in 2020 where she earned her bachelor’sin psychology with a triple minor. After graduation, Cameryn worked at the Mood and Personality Disorder Research Program at the Icahn School of Medicine and the Bronx VA. Cameryn worked on projects related to affective instability, emotional granularity, cognitive reappraisal by distancing, and social decision-making. Her interests now lie in researching Black American mental health and treatment access as well as emotion regulation skills. You can contact Cameryn at cooley.288@osu.edu.
For publications, please see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=2cFREPQAAAAJ
Kassidie Harmon
Kassidie joined the MAPS lab in 2020 after earning her BS in psychology from The Ohio State University, where she studied the impact of stereotype activation on Black women with natural hairstyles. Her current research interests include improving treatment for mood disorders and studying emotion regulation difficulties. She is particularly interested in designing interventions to improve treatment outcomes for Black Americans with mood disorders. You can contact Kassidie at harmon.410@osu.edu.
Dorian Hatch
Dorian joined the MAPS lab in 2021 shortly after completing his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University, where he majored in psychology and minored in statistics. He is particularly interested in the research surrounding the etiology, implications, measurement, and treatment of BPD (a la DBT), along with other Cluster-B personality disorders. Moreover, he is also interested in psychopathology generally, particularly refining the treatments surrounding these disorders. Contact Dorian at hatch.143@osu.edu.
For publications, please see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=26thWOIAAAAJ
Ally Heiland
Ally joined the MAPS lab in 2022 after graduating from the University of Arkansas in 2020 with her bachelors in psychology. Ally worked in foster care administration following graduation while also working on research projects related to personality functioning, emotion, self-control failure, and distress tolerance at the University of Arkansas. Her current research interests generally involve transdiagnostic mechanisms underlying personality pathology and emotion dysregulation, with a specific interest in BPD and optimizing treatment outcomes. Contact Ally at heiland.14@osu.edu.
For publications, please see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wuRgnTEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Whitney Whitted
Whitney joined the MAPS lab in 2020 after working as a lab manager in a multidisciplinary neuroscience lab at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion (FBRI) for two years. At FBRI, she managed research projects involving PTSD, BPD, MDD, and TBI clinical populations. Whitney completed her undergraduate degree at The Ohio State University in 2017 and has maintained an interest in treatment uptake and outcome for adults with mood disorders and emotion regulation difficulties. Whitney’s master’s thesis was on the effect of subtle communication about mental illness in social media on viewers’ beliefs about mental illness trajectories and personal agency in symptom improvement. Contact Whitney at whitted.29@osu.edu. Projects on which Whitney is currently collaborating:
- Specificity of emotion language over the course of cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy in relation to treatment outcome
- Education on psychopathology via social media in relation to self-diagnoses and illness identity
For publications, please see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=EkIaM3YAAAAJ