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


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​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
Xia, A.*, Solomon, S.H.*, Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Jenkins, A.C. (in press). Constructing complex social categories under uncertainty. Cognition. 
​* denotes equal contribution
Berkay, D. & Jenkins, A.C. (in press). A role for uncertainty in the neural distinction between social and nonsocial thought. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Defendini, A. & Jenkins, A.C. (in press). Dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during inferences about other minds: an fMRI meta-analysis. Social Neuroscience.
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)
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