Adrianna (Anna) Jenkins
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
lab website
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)
B.A. Dartmouth College
M.A. Harvard University
Ph.D. Harvard University
Publications
(please see lab website for pdfs, materials, and data)
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.
Karmarkar, U. & Jenkins, A.C. (forthcoming, 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., 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, social concepts, social preferences, social valuation, prosocial behavior, decision-making, intertemporal choice, artificial intelligence, self-referential thought, introspection, honesty, stereotyping, analogy, associative processing, abstraction, generalization, gist, default-mode network, medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC)