Research Overview

My primary research interest is in the area of serious mental illness, with a particular focus on psychotic disorders. Specifically, I am interested in (1) the degree to which different types of risk factors, including trauma, contribute to the onset and maintenance of psychotic disorders, (2) identifying risk markers for the development of psychosis, and (3) social, perceptual, and cognitive functioning in these disorders. 

Selected Publications

• Blose, B. A. & Schenkel, L. S. (2022). Facial and body posture emotion identification in deaf and hard-of-hearing young adults [Manuscript under review]. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 
• Blose, B. A., Godleski, S., Houston, R., & Schenkel, L. S. (in press). The indirect effect of peritraumatic dissociation on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and schizotypy. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
• Blose, B. A. & Schenkel, L. S. (2022). Theory of mind and emotional understanding in deaf and hard-of-hearing college students. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 27(2), 179-192. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enac001 

Poster Presentations

• Bertolace, L., Blose, B. A., Thompson, J. L., & Silverstein, S. M. (September, 2022). Similarities and differences between schizophrenia and first-episode psychosis patients on two measures of community functioning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Philadelphia, PA.
• Blose, B. A., Bertolace, L., Thompson, J. L., & Silverstein, S. M. (September, 2022). Visual perception and functional impairment in first- and later-episode psychotic disorder. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Philadelphia, PA. 
• Blose, B. A. & Schenkel, L. S. (November, 2021). The indirect effects of dissociation on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and schizotypy. Poster presented at the Psychosis and Schizophrenia Spectrum Special Interest Group Expo at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and cognitive Therapies in virtual format. 
• Blose, B. A., Fisher, K., & Schenkel, L. S. (November, 2020). Theory of mind and emotional understanding in deaf and hard-of-hearing college students. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in virtual format. 
• Fisher, K., Blose, B. A., & Schenkel, L. S. (November, 2020). Facial and body posture emotion identification in deaf and hard-of-hearing young adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in virtual format. 
• LaRock, K. M., Blose, B. A., Fisher, K., Popov, V., & Schenkel, L. S. (September, 2019). Alexithymia and maternal attachment as mediators in the relationship between child maltreatment and bipolar symptomatology in young adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Buffalo, NY. 

Honors

• 2021: Experimental Psychology Outstanding Student Award, Rochester Institute of Technology
• 2020: Experimental Psychology Outstanding Student Award, Rochester Institute of Technology
• 2020: Leo and Mary Smith Scholarship, Rochester Institute of Technology
• 2020: Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology
• 2012 – 2017: Trustee Scholarship, Kent State University
• 2012 – 2017: President’s Scholarship, Kent State University

Additional Information

2021 – 2022: Human Subject Research Coordinator I, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center  

2019 – 2021: Research Assistant, Health and Addictions Research Center, Rochester Institute of Technology 

2019 - 2021: Master of Science, Experimental Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology 

2014 – 2015: Research Assistant, Animal Cognition and Neuroscience Lab, Kent State University  

2012 – 2017: Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Kent State University