Personality and Psychopathology Lab

Ball State University – Department of Psychological Science

  • Previous Graduate Students

    BSU Clinical Psychology Master’s Program Alumni associated with the P2 Lab.

    • Yasmine Griffin, BS

      Yasmine Griffin (she/her) is a second-year master’s student in the Clinical Psychology program at Ball State University. During her time at Ball State, Yasmine has refined her research interests in externalizing behaviors and in the assessment and evaluation of adolescents. Her research interests are exemplified in the projects she has conducted. Specifically, this past summer, Yasmine presented a brief talk about the Triarchic Constructs of Psychopathy and Behavioral Deviance at the MMPI Symposium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This project is in the process of being turned into a manuscript. In April 2023, Yasmine will present a project regarding the validity of the Ideas of Persecution Scale (RC6) of the MMPI-A-RF at the Society of Personality Assessment Convention. She is also working on her research thesis, which investigates the differential predictive validity of the MMPI-A-RF in regards to adolescent development.  

      Currently, Yasmine is a Graduate Research Assistant in the P2 lab. As a Graduate Research Assistant in the P2 Lab. Yasmine works under the supervision of Dr. Tayla Lee as the Lab Manager of the P2 Lab, where she is developing skills in data management and project conceptualization. Yasmine manages undergraduate assistants as they collect data in collaboration with the Youth Opportunity Center. She also leads didactic groups with the undergraduate lab assistants about various topics relevant to the lab. 

      Yasmine will be applying to Clinical Psychology Ph.D. programs, as she would like to pursue a career conducting applied research in a forensic or clinical setting. 

      In her spare time, Yasmine enjoys watching psychological thrillers, reading, and like music. 

    • Eva Argyriou, MA

      Eva Argyriou (she/her) earned her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at Ball State University in July 2018. Eva worked closely with Dr. Lee while at Ball State and this collaboration led to the publication of a paper in the journal Addictive Behaviors in 2017. Eva also completed her thesis, which examined emotion regulation decision making processes in internalizing disorders, under Dr. Lee’s supervision. A manuscript based on Eva’s thesis work was published in 2020 in the Journal of Affective Disorders. After completing her degree at Ball State, Eva began working on her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Indiana University – Purdue University – Indianapolis under the mentorship of Dr. Wei Wu and Dr. Melissa Cyders.

       

    • Andrew Kremyar, MA

      Andy Kremyar (he/him) earned his Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at Ball State University in July 2018. While at Ball State, Andy was a graduate assistant in the Personality and Psychopathology Lab. Andy’s thesis, completed under Dr. Lee’s supervision, examined the construct validity of affect sensitivity and its components, anxiety sensitivity and distress intolerance. Andy and Dr. Lee also collaborated on another project examining the assessment of positive health behaviors. This paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of Personality Assessment in 2018. Dr. Lee and Andy have continued to work together and published additional work in peer-reviewed journals. After completing his degree at Ball State, Andy began working on his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Kent State University under the mentorship of Dr. Yossef Ben-Porath.

       

    • Jordan Hall, MA

      Jordan Hall (she/her) earned her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at Ball State University in July 2018. While at Ball State, Jordan was a graduate assistant in the Personality and Psychopathology lab, as well as the Psychophysiological Attention, Cognition, and Emotion (PACE) lab. Her thesis, supervised by Dr. Lee, was an examination of the construct validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form’s (MMPI-2-RF) Demoralization (RCd) scale. Dr. Lee and Jordan co-authored a manuscript on the assessment of adaptive functioning with the MMPI-2-RF, which was published in the Journal of Personality Assessment in 2019. After completing her degree at Ball State, Jordan began working on her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Kent State University under the mentorship of Dr. Yossef Ben-Porath.

    • Colette Delawalla, MA, MS

      Colette Delawalla (she/her) graduated in 2022 from Ball State University with master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology and Quantitative Psychology. While at Ball State, Colette worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the P2 Lab and completed her thesis, “Positive and Negative Urgency: To Lump or to Split? An Investigation into Affect Specific Impulsive Behavior,” under Dr. Lee’s supervision.  Colette and Dr. Lee also pursued several additional projects related to the conceptualization and assessment of impulsivity while Colette was a student at Ball State and have submitted manuscripts based on this work to peer-reviewed journals for potential publication. After graduating, Colette joined the Clinical Science PhD program at Emory University and is studying the behavioral genetics of externalizing disorders with Dr. Rohan Palmer.

    • Nicholas Mundell, MA, MS

      Nicholas (Nick) Mundell (he/him) graduated in July 2021 from the Clinical Psychology M.A. and Quantitative Psychology M.S. programs at Ball State University. Nick completed his thesis, which examined the role of demoralization in college students’ risky drinking, under Dr. Lee’s supervision. While at Ball State, Nick also served as a Graduate Assistant for Dr. Evette Simmons-Reed in the Department of Special Education and completed an internship as a statistician with Dr. James Jones and Dr. Kianre Eouanzoui in the Department of Research and Academic Effectiveness. Nick is employed as a project manager and is interested in statistical consulting.

    • Megan Keen, MA, MS

      Megan Keen (she/her) graduated in 2021 from Ball State’s master’s programs in Clinical Psychology and Quantitative Psychology. As a master’s student, Megan served as a graduate assistant in the P2 lab and conducted investigations on underreporting response styles and the assessment of internalizing phenomena. She and Dr. Lee recently published a study on the assessment of underreporting in Assessment. Megan also completed her master’s thesis, “Understanding Compulsivity: Exploring & Defining A Construct,” under Dr. Lee’s supervision. Megan’s research interests center around assessment, dimensional models of personality and psychopathology, clinical utility and interventions, and underserved populations. She is currently earning her PhD in Counseling Psychology at Texas Tech University under the mentorship of Dr. Paul Ingram.

    • Katelyn Kasula, MA, MS

      Katelyn Kasula (she/her) earned her Master’s Degrees in Clinical Psychology and Quantitative Psychology in July 2020. During her time at Ball State, Katelyn worked as a graduate assistant for Dr. Lee and completed her thesis under Dr. Lee’s supervision. Katelyn’s thesis examined the potential for gender bias on scales of the MMPI-A using data from a local residential treatment center. Katelyn is now working in the data analytics field.

    • Jaiden Butler, MA, MS

      Jaiden Butler (she/her) earned her Master’s Degrees in Clinical Psychology and Quantitative Psychology in July 2020. During her time at Ball State, Jaiden worked as a graduate assistant for Dr. Lee and completed her thesis under Dr. Lee’s supervision. Jaiden’s thesis examined the validity of a widely used measure of psychopathy in a large sample of men from a mid-western correctional facility. A manuscript based on her thesis work was recently accepted for publication at Assessment. Jaiden currently works in the data analytics field.

    • Nicole Lemaster, MA, MS

      Nicole Lemaster (they/them) was a graduate assistant for Dr. Tayla Lee’s Personality and Psychopathology Lab. They graduated from Ball State University in July of 2019 with Master’s degrees in Clinical and Quantitative Psychology. Nicole and Dr. Lee recently published a paper based on Nicole’s thesis, which examined the assessment of feigned ADHD. Nicole is currently obtaining their PhD in Counseling Psychology at Texas Tech University where they are pursuing their interests in the conceptualization and assessment of personality and psychopathology, gender identities, and detecting invalid responding.