M. Sima Finy, PHD

M. Sima Finy is an Associate Professor - Educator in the Department of Psychology. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after completing a Clinical Internship in Child Psychology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is interested in how psychological processes (e.g., psychosocial stress, self-regulation) interact with the immune and neuroendocrine systems to contribute to physical health and illness. 

Ph.D.: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2017 (Clinical/Community Psychology)

Clinical Psychology Internship: UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior 2017 (General Child Psychology)

M.A.: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2012 (Psychology)

B.S.: The Ohio State University 2007 (Psychology, Neuroscience)

Peer Reviewed Publications

Finy, M Sima; Bresin, Konrad; Korol, Donna L; Verona, Edelyn  (2014). Impulsivity, risk taking, and cortisol reactivity as a function of psychosocial stress and personality in adolescents. Development and psychopathology, 26 (4 Pt 1) , 1093-111More Information

Bresin, Konrad; Finy, M Sima; Sprague, Jenessa; Verona, Edelyn  (2014). Response monitoring and adjustment: differential relations with psychopathic traits. Journal of abnormal psychology, 123 (3) , 634-49More Information

Javdani, Shabnam; Finy, M Sima; Verona, Edelyn  (2014). Evaluation of the validity of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire-Simplified-Wording Form (MPQ-SF) in adolescents with treatment histories. Assessment, 21 (3) , 352-62More Information

Sadeh, Naomi; Javdani, Shabnam; Finy, M Sima; Verona, Edelyn  (2011). Gender differences in emotional risk for self- and other-directed violence among externalizing adults. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 79 (1) , 106-17More Information

Fonken, Laura K; Finy, M Sima; Walton, James C; Weil, Zachary M; Workman, Joanna L; Ross, Jessica; Nelson, Randy J  (2009). Influence of light at night on murine anxiety- and depressive-like responses. Behavioural brain research, 205 (2) , 349-54More Information

Workman, Joanna L; Trainor, Brian C; Finy, M Sima; Nelson, Randy J  (2008). Inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide reduces anxiety-like responses to pair housing. Behavioural brain research, 187 (1) , 109-15More Information

Trainor, Brian C; Finy, M Sima; Nelson, Randy J  (2008). Paternal aggression in a biparental mouse: parallels with maternal aggression. Hormones and behavior, 53 (1) , 200-7More Information

Trainor, Brian C; Finy, M Sima; Nelson, Randy J  (2008). Rapid effects of estradiol on male aggression depend on photoperiod in reproductively non-responsive mice. Hormones and behavior, 53 (1) , 192-9More Information

Trainor, Brian C; Lin, Shili; Finy, M Sima; Rowland, Michael R; Nelson, Randy J  (2007). Photoperiod reverses the effects of estrogens on male aggression via genomic and nongenomic pathways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104 (23) , 9840-5More Information

Martin, Lynn B; Trainor, Brian C; Finy, M Sima; Nelson, Randy J  (2007). HPA activity and neotic and anxiety-like behavior vary among Peromyscus species. General and comparative endocrinology, 151 (3) , 342-50More Information

Finy, M Sima; Christian, Lisa M  (2018). Pathways linking childhood abuse history and current socioeconomic status to inflammation during pregnancy. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 74, 231-240More Information

Zhang W.;Zou H.;Wang M.;Finy M.  (03-01-2015). The role of the Dark Triad traits and two constructs of emotional intelligence on loneliness in adol. Personality and Individual Differences, 75, 74-79More Information

Zhang W.;Finy M.;Bresin K.;Verona E.  (01-01-2015). Specific Patterns of Family Aggression and Adolescents’ Self- and Other-Directed Harm: The Moderatin. Journal of Family Violence, 30 (2) , 161-170More Information

Bresin K.;Sima Finy M.;Verona E.  (09-05-2013). Childhood emotional environment and self-injurious behaviors: The moderating role of the BDNF Val66M. Journal of Affective Disorders, 150 (2) , 594-600More Information

-PSYC-1001 INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY

-PSYC-2001C RES METH & STATS I

-PSYC-2002C RES METH & STATS II

-PSYC-2051 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

-PSYC-2096 TEACHING PRACTICUM

-PSYC-3020 COGNITIVE NEUROPSYC

-PSYC-3024 FUNCTIONAL NEURO

-PSYC-3062 BRAINS ON DRUGS

-PSYC-8014 ASSESSMT: COGNITION

-PSYC-9065 NP PRACTICUM CLINICAL PRACTICUM

PSYC-8090

ASSESSMENT: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT & TESTING

Academic - Clifton Court Hall
2800 Clifton Ave.
Cincinnati  Ohio, 45221
Phone: 513-556-5535
finyms@uc.edu