• Ph D, Clinical Psychology, Oklahoma State University, 2022
• MS, Clinical Psychology, Oklahoma State University, 2019
• BA, Psychology, Augsburg University, 2016

• Licensed Psychologist , South Dakota Board of Examiners of Psychologists

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• Kraft, Jacob. The link between basic visual processing and higher- level social cognition: Eye gaze perception as a mechanistic bridge in a transdiagnostic sample enriched with social dysfunction.
• Kraft, Jacob, Mennin , Douglas, and Fresco, David. Gaining Clarity in Complexity: Targeting Complex Distress Disorders with Emotion Regulation Therapy. In Handbook of Third Wave Therapies.
• Kraft, Jacob, Locarno, Laura, Frohlich, Flovio, Riddle, Justin, Chang, Soo-Eun, Taylor, Stephan, and Tso, Ivy. The effects of Theta-Gamma PAC tACS on Cognitive Control within Bipolar Disorder: a Pilot Study.
• DeStefani, Serena, Blain, Scott, and Kraft, Jacob. The dynamics of social gaze: visual attention and autonomic arousal among individuals with varying levels of autistic traits..
• Kraft, Jacob, Grant, DeMond, Deros, Danielle, Nagel, Kaitlyn, and Hahn, Burkhart. Etiological, media, and psychopathological predictors of weather-related anxiety and safety behaviors.
• Kraft, Jacob, Grant, DeMond, Deros, Danielle, Nagel, Kaitlyn, and Hahn, Burkhart. Independent evaluation and predictive utility of two questionnaires targeting severe weather phobia. Vol. 44, Iss. 3 Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2025. (DOI: 10.1521/jscp.2025.44.3.245)
• Deros, Danielle, Navarro, Jonathon, Kraft, Jacob, Hahn, Burkhart, Walker, Ebony, Nagel, Kailtyn, and Grant, DeMond. Exploring relationships between self-concept clarity and social anxiety symptoms on heart-rate variability during mental self-imagery. Current Psychology, 2025.
• Kraft, Jacob, Menkes, Margo, Andrews, Carolyn, Suzuki, Takakuni, and Tso, Ivy. Attenuated theta-band activity and cross-frequency coupling in schizophrenia during affective response inhibition. Clinical Neurophysiology, 2025.
• Locarno, Laura, Lasagna, Carly, and Kraft, Jacob. Examining the joint and unique contributions of contour integration and visuospatial memory to altered eye gaze perception in schizophrenia, 65-74. Vol. 278 Schizophrenia Research, 2025. (DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2025.03.022)
• Judah, Matt, Hager, Nathan, Hamrick, Hannah, White, Evan , Mills, Adam , Taylor, Danielle, Frosio, Kristen , Kraft, Jacob, and Grant, DeMond . Anticipatory processing increases attentional biases to disgust faces in socially anxious individuals: Evidence from the N2pc and CDA, 108901. Vol. 193 Biological Psychology, 2024. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108901)
• Ponzi, Davide, Kraft, Jacob, and Grant, DeMond. Self-presenting in front of a friendly female audience increases young men risk-taking in the Iowa Gambling Task. . Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 2024.
• Addante, Samantha, Kraft, Jacob, Clement, Deja, Erato Garza, Gina, Quigley, Ashley, Armans, Mira, Fields Creech, Kristin, Oliphant, Vanessa, Wingate, LaRicka, and Ciciolla, Lucia. Assessing Childhood Community Experiences.. Children and Youth Services Review, 2024.
• Judah, Matt, Hager, Nathan, Hamrick, Hannah, White, Evan, Mills, Adam, Taylor, Danielle, Frosio, Kristen, Kraft, Jacob, and Grant, DeMond. Anticipatory Processing Increases Attentional Biases to Disgust Faces in Socially Anxious Participants: Evidence from the N2pc and CDA. . Vol. 193 Biological Psychology, 2024. (DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108901)
• Kraft, Jacob, Hahn, Burkhart, Deros, Danielle, Nagel, Kaitlyn, and Grant, DeMond. The influence of certainty and probability on emotional and behavioral reactions within weather anxiety.
• Kraft, Jacob, and Grant, DeMond M.. Attention biases in severe weather anxiety: A behavioral and ERP study.
• Gamwell, Kate L., Robert, Caroline, Kraft, Jacob, Edwards, Clayton, Baudino, Marissa, Grunow, J, Jacobs, Noel, Tung, J, Mullins, Larry, and Chaney, John. Factor analysis of the Stigma Scale-Child in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.
• Bastile, Nathan, Dattilo, Taylor, DeLone, Alexandra, Kraft, Jacob, Edwards, Clayton, Buchanan, Cindy, Cheng, Earl, Poppas, Dix, Wisniewski, Amy, and Mullins, Larry. Factor structure of the Parental Perception of Uncertainty Scale in pediatric disorders/differences of sex development. , 386–395. Vol. 48, Iss. 4 Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2023. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsad001)
• Taylor, Danielle, Kraft, Jacob, White, Evan, Frosio, Kristen, and Grant, DeMond. Temporal Predictions of Negative Anxiety Response Styles in Depression Risk.
• Kraft, Jacob, and Hampstead, Benjamin. The effects of tACS on cognitive function within older adults: a systematic review. . Neuropsychology Review, 2023.
• Kraft, Jacob, Nagel, Kaitlyn M., Deros, Danielle E., Hahn, Burkhart J., Taylor, Danielle L., Frosio, Kristen K., White, Evan J., and Grant, DeMond M.. The influence of self-focused attention on emotional processing: An ERP study.
• Kraft, Jacob, Grant, DeMond, Deros, Danielle, Nagel, Kaitlyn , Taylor, Danielle, Frosio, Kristen, and White, Evan . Documenting the late positive potential of self-imagery within social anxiety.
• Kraft, Jacob, Grant, DeMond, Nagel, Kaitlyn, Deros, Danielle, Frosio, Kristen, Taylor, Danielle, and White, Evan . Independent psychometric evaluation of the Social Anxiety Questionnaire.
• Deros, Danielle, Grant, DeMond, Kraft, Jacob, Nagel, Kaitlyn, and Hahn, Burkhart. Self-imagery and attentional control mechanisms of maintenance factors of social anxiety: A comparison of trait and state assessments.
• Kraft, Jacob, Grant, DeMond, White, Evan , Taylor, Danielle, and Frosio, Kristen. Cognitive mechanisms influence the relationship between social anxiety and depression among college students.
• Espeleta, Hannah, Taylor, Danielle, Kraft, Jacob, and Grant, DeMond. Cognitive vulnerabilities and child maltreatment: Examining the link to posttraumatic stress symptoms.
• Traino, Katie, Baudino, Marissa, Kraft, Jacob, Basile, Nate, Dattilo, Taylor, Davis, M, Buchanan, C, Cheng, E, Poppas, D, Wisniewski, A, and Mullins, Larry. Factor analysis of the Stigma Scale-Parent Version in pediatric disorders/differences of sex development.
• White, Evan , Grant, DeMond, Kraft, Jacob, Taylor, Danielle, Deros, Danielle, Nagel, Kaitlyn, and Frosio, Kristen. Psychometric properties and prospective predictive utility of the contrast avoidance questionnaire.
• Kraft, Jacob, and Grant, DeMond. The effects of self-imagery manipulations on attentional processes within social anxiety.
• White, Evan, Grant, DeMond, Taylor, Danielle, Kraft, Jacob, and Frosio, Kristen. The influence of state worry on covert selective attention and suppression of threating distractors: An ERP study.
• Nagel, Kaitlyn, Grant, DeMond, Kraft, Jacob, Deros, Danielle , and Hahn, Burkhart. The role of worry and attentional control in mental imagery.
• Taylor, Danielle, Grant, DeMond, Frosio, Kristen , Kraft, Jacob, Nagel, Kaitlyn, Deros, Danielle, and White, Evan . Neural indices of orienting, discrimination, and performance monitoring after contextual fear and safety learning.
• Grant, DeMond, and Kraft, Jacob. Nuances in repetitive negative thinking processes and future directions: A commentary on Monteregge et al..
• Kraft, Jacob, Grant, DeMond, Taylor, Danielle, Frosio, Kristen, Nagel, Kaitlyn, and Deros, Danielle. Psychometric properties of the attentional style questionnaire..
• Krug, Cassandra, Kraft, Jacob, Wells, Tony, and Grant, DeMond. Relationship Between Hostile Interpretation Bias and Symptoms of Depression and Social Anxiety: a Replication Across Two Samples.
• Taylor, Danielle, Espeleta, Hannah, Kraft, Jacob, and Grant, DeMond. Early childhood experiences and cognitive risk factors for anxiety symptoms: A moderated-mediation.
• Taylor, Danielle, Grant, DeMond, Kraft, Jacob, Frosio, Kristen, White, Evan , Judah, Matt, and Mills, Adam. The role of parasympathetic activity in the relationship between worry and neural indicators of attentional control..
• Taylor, Danielle, Grant, DeMond, Frosio, Kristen, Kraft, Jacob, and White, Evan. Psychometric properties of the Response to Anxiety Questionnaire..
• Hahn, Burkhart, Grant, DeMond, Deros, Danielle, Nagel, Kaitlyn, Walker, Ebony, and Kraft, Jacob. The interactive role of gender, BMI, and exercise habits on social physique anxiety.. Vol. 73, Iss. 5 Journal of American College Health. (DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2025.2510695)

• Professor of the year, Department of Psychology, University of South Dakota, 2026

• Kraft, Jacob, Patterns of Neural Consistency During Error Monitoring Using Attentional Control and Worry as Covariates.. Presented at the ESDRS (June 2026)
• Kraft, Jacob, Physiological Reactivity and Maintenance Mechanisms of Weather Anxiety. Presented at the ESDRS (June 2026)
• Kraft, Jacob, Cognitive Coping Strategies and Cognitive Flexibility as Predictors of Responses to Severe Weather. Presented at the ESSRS (June 2026)
• Kraft, Jacob, How Perceived Media Accuracy Shapes Anxiety Towards Severe Weather. Presented at the ADAA (April 2026)
• Kraft, Jacob, When the Sky Turns Dark: Self-Report and Physiological Predictors of Weather-Specific Phobia. Presented at the ADAA (April 2026)
• Kraft, Jacob, Cognitive and Coping Predictors of Vulnerability to Severe Weather Anxiety. Presented at the Ideafest (April 2026)
• Kraft, Jacob, Cognitive and Coping Predictors of Vulnerability to Severe Weather Anxiety.. Presented at the Ideafest (April 2026)
• Kraft, Jacob, Descriptive Analyses on Weather Fears in USD Students. Presented at the Ideafest (April 2026)
• Kraft, Jacob, Digital Media and the Developing Brain: A Neuroscientific Review. Presented at the Ideafest (April 2026)
• Kraft, Jacob, Examining Trends Amongst Severe Weather Exposure. Presented at the Ideafest (April 2026)
• Lasagna, Carly, and Kraft, Jacob, Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Self-Referential Processing in Psychosis: Formalizing Brain-Behavior Connections to Predict Symptom Expression. In symposium: Using Computational Models to Dissect Symptom Heterogeneity across Conditions, Constructs, and Contexts.. Presented at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (January 2026)
• Lasagna, Carly, and Kraft, Jacob, Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Self-Reference in Psychosis: Formalizing Brain- Behavior Connections to Predict Symptom Expression. Presented at the ACNP (October 2025)
• Lasagna, Carly, and Kraft, Jacob, eurocognitive Mechanisms of Disrupted Self-Referential Processing in Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder: Driving Theoretical Precision and Clinical Insights Through Mathematical Formalism. Presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology (October 2025)
• Kraft, Jacob, Suzuki, Takakuni, Riddle, Justin, Frohlich, Flavio, and Tso, Ivy, Difficulties in Identifying Peak Frequencies of Cross-Frequency Phase-Amplitude Coupling: Implications for Personalized Frequency Approaches of tACS in Clinical Studies. Presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia. (November 2024)
• Mathis, Kelly, Kraft, Jacob, Locarno, Laura, Riddle, Justin, Chang, Soo-Eun, McInnis, Melvin, Fohlich, Flovio, Taylor, Stephan, and Tso, Ivy, Baseline Functioning and Symptom Predictors of Response to Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Targeting Cognitive Control Impairment in Bipolar Disorder. Presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Montreal. (October 2024)
• Locarno, Laura, Kraft, Jacob, Suzuki, Takakuni, Riddle, Justin, Chang, Soo-Eun, McInnis, Melvin, Frolich, Flovio, Taylor, Stephan, Tso, Ivy, and , Baseline Neurophysiology Predicts the Response to tACS Targeting Affective Cognitive Control in Bipolar Disorder. Presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Montreal. (October 2024)
• Kraft, Jacob, Riddle, Justin, Suzuki, Takakuni, Frohlich, Flovio, and Tso, Ivy, Challenges in Pinpointing Peak Frequencies: Impact on Personalized Frequency Approaches of tACS in Clinical Studies. Presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Montreal. (October 2024)
• Lasagna, Carly, and Kraft, Jacob, Single-trial neurocognitive joint modeling: feasibility and translational utility in psychiatric samples. Presented at the Society for Mathematical Psychology (October 2015)