Lauren Simpson, B.A.
First Year Graduate Student
Email: lsimpson10@huskers.unl.edu
Lauren (she/her) is a first-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Training Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on identifying risk and resilience factors for psychopathology following the experience of interpersonal violence. Specifically, she is interested in the role of emotion dysregulation in the development and maintenance of trauma-related psychopathology. Her clinical interests center on supporting individuals who have experienced interpersonal violence.
Lauren received her B.A. in Psychology from Amherst College in 2021. For four years as an undergraduate, she worked as a Peer Advocate for Sexual Respect, leading workshops and events to prevent sexual and gender-based violence on campus and providing direct support to students who experienced interpersonal violence. After graduating, she worked for two years as a project coordinator at UNL for Drs. David DiLillo and Sarah Gervais on a multi-site, longitudinal randomized control trial that evaluated the efficacy of an online program to increase bystander intervention (see “Evaluation of RealConsent2.0” under “Current and Past Grants”). Since 2022, she has been a crisis line volunteer for Voices of Hope, a local organization in Lincoln that supports individuals who have experienced interpersonal violence. Additionally, she is passionate about mentorship and loves working with students to help them identify and pursue their career goals in psychology.
Publications
Simpson, L. E., Kumar, S. A., Brockdorf, A. N., Brock, R. L., Messman, T. L., Gratz, K. L., & DiLillo, D. (under review). The cumulative impact of recurrent experiences of intimate partner violence on emotion dysregulation: A longitudinal investigation.
Lydecker, J. A., Lou, R. L., Rossa, E., Simpson, L., & Ozbardakci, E. (in press). How parents talk about weight: Qualtitative content analysis using a randomized experiment design. Stigma and Health.
Salazar, L. F., Parrott, D., DiLillo, D., Gervais, S., Schipani-McLaughlin, A., Leone, R., Swartout, K., Simpson, L., Moore, R., Wilson, T., Flowers, N., Church, H., Baildon, A. (2023). Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of RealConsent2.0: A web-based intervention to promote prosocial alcohol-involved bystander behavior in young men. Trials, 24(1), Article 804. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07797-w
Reyes, M. E., Simpson, L., Sullivan, T. P., Contractor, A. A., & Weiss, N. H. (2023). Intimate partner violence and mental health outcomes among Hispanic women in the United States: A scoping review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 24(2), 809-827. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380211043815
Kneeland, E. T. & Simpson, L. E. (2022). Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms. Cognition and Emotion, 36(8), 1613-1621. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2143327
Simpson, L. E., Raudales, A. M., Reyes, M. E., Sullivan, T. P., & Weiss, N. H. (2022). Intimate partner violence and posttraumatic stress symptoms: Indirect effects through negative and positive emotion dysregulation. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(15-16), NP14008-NP14035. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211006371
Lydecker, J. A., Simpson, L., Smith, S. R., White, M. A., & Grilo, C. M. (2022). Preoccupation in bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, and higher weight. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 55(1), 76-84. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23630
Selected Presentations
Simpson, L. E., Kumar, S. A., Brockdorf, A. N., Brock, R. L., Messman, T. L., Gratz, K. L., & DiLillo, D. (2023, November). A longitudinal investigation of the cumulative impact of recurrent intimate partner violence experiences on emotion dysregulation. Poster presented at the 57th annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Simpson, L. E., Kumar, S. A., Brockdorf, A. N., Messman, T. L., Gratz, K. L., & DiLillo, D. (2022, November). The cumulative impact of intimate partner violence experiences on emotion dysregulation. Poster presented at the 56th annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
Kneeland, E. T. & Simpson, L. E. (2022, May). An emotion belief intervention promotes active emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with current depressive symptoms. Poster presented at the 2022 annual convention of the Association of Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Kneeland, E. T. & Simpson, L. E. (2022, March). Emotion malleability beliefs influence state emotion regulation and emotional resilience among individuals with depressive symptoms. Poster presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science (virtual).
Simpson, L. E. & Kneeland, E. T. (2021, November). Beliefs about emotion malleability and the causes of depression influence perceptions of depression among individuals with depressive symptoms. Poster presented at the 55th annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA (virtual).
Simpson, L. E., Waite, E., & Dixon-Gordon, K. (2021, November). Emotion reactivity and regulation: Influence of lifetime posttraumatic stress disorder on responses to a negative mood induction in individuals with borderline personality disorder. Poster presented at the 55th annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA (virtual).
Simpson, L. E., Raudales, A. M., Reyes, M. E., Sullivan, T. P., & Weiss, N. H. (2021, November). The roles of negative and positive emotion dysregulation in the relationship between intimate partner violence and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Poster presented at the 37th annual convention for the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (virtual).