This page highlights the current events, achievements, and current activities of our lab members:
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Looking back on the Fall 2025 semester, we couldn’t have asked for a better way to end the year! With so many great presentations, there are just two more we want to touch on before moving on to 2026… Up first, Katie Romzek, who recently graduated with her bachelor’s degree, gave a wonderful presentation on
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Marina, a second-year PhD student in the FF-TIP Lab, recently had the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Sakamoto of Nihon University in Japan. After being introduced in early fall 2024, Marina began working with Dr. Sakamoto’s existing dataset, which she developed into a conference poster for the 2025 annual MPA conference. This initial project soon
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Congratulations are in order as we had 5 of our current lab members and 1 former lab member graduate this past weekend! We would like to congratulate our research assistants, Conner Cole-Salem, Katie Romzek, Gina Reyes, and Logan Porter for graduating with their undergraduate degrees this semester. We also want to congratulate Paxton Hicks for
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Recently, Gina Reyes, a senior undergraduate research assistant, gave an insightful presentation on her independent study titled “Grief Perceptions & Norms.” To begin, Gina described how societal beliefs and expectations about grief can shape what is considered a “normal” or “healthy” grieving process—often leading to disenfranchised grief, or grief that is not socially recognized or
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We would like to congratulate Paxton Hicks, a second year Master’s student in the FF-TIP Lab, who has officially defended his Master’s thesis! Paxton impressed his committee, with an insightful and engaging presentation on self-disclosure depenetration, earning acceptance with no revision requests. Paxton introduced us all to the concept of self-disclosure, before discussing the lack
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Last week, the lab had the opportunity to hear from Conner, who presented an article titled “Treatment initiation and dropout from prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapy in a VA outpatient clinic” by Shannon M. Kehle-Forbes, Laura A. Meis, Michele R. Spoont, and Melissa A. Polusny. This article aimed to report the initiation and dropout
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Last week, Ana Samaneigo-Ramos, a first-semester undergraduate research assistant at the FF-TIP Lab, presented an article on the effects of self-talk on competitive anxiety, self-efficacy, volitional skills, and performance in young athletes. The article, titled “Effects of self-talk training on competitive anxiety, self-efficacy, volitional skills and performance: An intervention study with junior sub-elite athletes” by
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This past week, the FF-TIP Lab adventured off to Yates Cider Mill for our annual cider mill trip! We enjoyed some fresh donuts, cider, and an engaging Step-Back presentation from Dr. Taku. It was a sweet opportunity to take our research minds beyond Pryale Hall and enjoy the Michigan fall weather. We couldn’t be more
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Last week, the FF-TIP Lab welcomed Dr. Hirokazu Arai from Hosei University in Japan. Dr. Arai joined us for our weekly lab meeting to share his research and give a “step-back” presentation on a new project he is undertaking. In this presentation, he discussed how values held by an individual athlete may differ from those
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The FF-TIP Lab is back and ready for an exciting Fall semester! We have lots of great things in the works, starting with welcoming two new undergraduate research assistants to our team: Ana Samaniego Ramos and Conner Cole-Salem. We’re thrilled to have them on board! Ana Samaniego Ramos is a junior with a major in
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