Adrianna C. Jenkins - University of Pennsylvania

Adrianna (Anna) Jenkins
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania

lab website

Education
B.A. Dartmouth College
M.A. Harvard University
Ph.D. Harvard University

Publications
(please see lab website for pdfs, materials, and data)

Plate, R., Ham, H., & Jenkins, A.C. (in press). When uncertainty in social contexts increases exploration and decreases obtained rewards. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Berkay, D.* & Jenkins, A.C. (in press). Semantic distance in word embeddings predicts neural responses during inferences about people and objects. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Ham, H. & Jenkins, A.C. (in press). A computational model of lexical false memory based on semantic distance from word embeddings. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Xia, A.*, Solomon, S.H.*, Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Jenkins, A.C. (2023). Constructing complex social categories under uncertainty. Cognition, 234, 105363. * denotes equal contribution

Berkay, D. & Jenkins, A.C. (2023). A role for uncertainty in the neural distinction between social and nonsocial thought. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(2), 491-502

Defendini, A. & Jenkins, A.C. (2023). Dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during inferences about other minds: an fMRI meta-analysis. Social Neuroscience, 18(2), 103-121.

Flanagan-Cato, L., Plate, R., Steele, C., & Jenkins, A.C. (2023). Effects of a service-learning neuroscience course on mood and intergroup anxiety. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 21(2), A159-A165.

Plate, R., Ham, H., & Jenkins, A.C. (2022). Exploration is higher in social contexts at the cost of rewards. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44, 2716-2723.

Kobayashi, K., Kable, J.W., Hsu, M. & Jenkins, A.C. (2022). Neural representations of others’ traits predict social decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 119(22), e2116944119.

Plate, R.C. & Jenkins, A.C. (2022). Anticipating greater impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social life is associated with reduced adherence to disease-mitigating guidelines. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 756549.

Karmarkar, U. & Jenkins, A.C. (2020). Neural and behavioral insights into online trust and uncertainty. In Martineau, J.T. & Racine, E. (Eds.) Organizational Neuroethics. New York: Springer Publishing.

Jenkins, A.C. (2019). Empathy affects tradeoffs between life's quality and duration. PLoS ONE, 14(10), e0221652.

Jenkins, A.C. (2019). Rethinking cognitive load: A default-mode network perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(7), 531-533.

Jenkins, A.C., Karashchuk, P., Zhu, L., & Hsu, M. (2018). Predicting human behavior toward members of different social groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 115(39), 9596-9701.

Jenkins, A.C. & Hsu, M. (2017). Dissociable contributions of imagination and willpower to the malleability of human patience. Psychological Science, 28(7), 894-906.

Jenkins, A.C., Zhu, L., & Hsu, M. (2016). Cognitive neuroscience of honesty and deception: a signaling framework. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 11, 130-137.

Hsu, M. & Jenkins, A.C. (2015). Character studies. Nature Neuroscience, 18, 1198-1199.

Jenkins, A. C., Dodell-Feder, D., Saxe, R., & Knobe, J. (2014). The neural bases of directed and spontaneous mental state attributions to group agents. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e105341.

Zhu, L., Jenkins, A.C., Set, E., Scabini, D., Knight, R., Chiu, P., King-Casas, B., & Hsu, M. (2014). Damage to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex affects tradeoffs between honesty and self-interest. Nature Neuroscience, 17(10), 1319-1321.

Cikara, M., Jenkins, A.C., Dufour, N., & Saxe, R. (2014). Reduced self-referential neural response during intergroup competition predicts competitor harm. NeuroImage, 96, 36-43.

Jenkins, A.C. & Mitchell, J.P. (2011). Medial prefrontal cortex subserves diverse forms of self-reflection. Social Neuroscience, 6(3), 211-218.

Gray, K., Jenkins, A.C., Heberlein, A.S. & Wegner, D.M. (2011). Distortions of mind perception in psychopathology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 108(2), 477-479.

Jenkins, A.C. & Mitchell, J.P. (2011). How has cognitive neuroscience contributed to social psychological theory? In Todorov, A., Fiske, S., & Prentice, D. (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Towards Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Jenkins, A.C. & Mitchell, J.P. (2010). Mentalizing under uncertainty: Dissociated neural responses to ambiguous and unambiguous mental state inferences. Cerebral Cortex, 20(2), 404-410.

Quadflieg, S., Turk, D. J., Waiter, G. D., Mitchell, J. P., Jenkins, A. C., & Macrae, C. N. (2009). Exploring the neural correlates of social stereotyping. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(8), 1560-1570.

Mitchell, J.P., Ames, D.L., Jenkins, A.C., & Banaji, M.R. (2009). Neural correlates of stereotype application. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(3), 594-604.

Schulz, L.E., Goodman, N.D., Tenenbaum, J.D., & Jenkins, A.C. (2008). Going beyond the evidence: Abstract laws and preschoolers’ responses to anomalous data. Cognition, 109(2), 211-223.

Ames, D.L., Jenkins, A.C., Banaji, M.R., & Mitchell, J.P. (2008). Taking another person’s perspective increases self-referential neural processing. Psychological Science, 19(7), 642-644.

Schulz, L.E., Hooppell, C., & Jenkins, A.C. (2008). Judicious imitation: Preschoolers differentially imitate deterministically and probabilistically effective actions. Child Development, 79(2), 395-410.

Jenkins, A.C., Macrae, C.N., & Mitchell, J.P. (2008). Repetition suppression of ventromedial prefrontal activity during judgments of self and others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105(11), 4507-4512.

Research keywords:
theory of mind, mentalizing, social cognition, mind perception, empathy, imagination, prospection, episodic simulation, uncertainty, social concepts, social preferences, social valuation, prosocial behavior, decision-making, intertemporal choice, introspection, associative processing, abstraction, generalization, gist, default-mode network, medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC)