October 2026 - Mu-Chen Wang presents at the Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting on how inequity shapes reinforcement learning when sharing rewards with others.
August 2026 - Mostafa Abdelmageed presents at the MindCORE Summer Program Poster Session on the computational and neural effects of social inequity and social perception on reinforcement learning.
July 2026 - New paper: Led by Ham Huang and Mu-Chen Wang, Modeling context-sensitive effects of inequity on reinforcement learning is now published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and available here.
July 2026 - Anna Jenkins is named a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
June 2026 - Ham Huang presents at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology Meeting on how social inequity disrupts reinforcement learning.
May 2026 - New paper: "Decomposing cultural differences in behavior toward members of different social groups" is now available via advance access at PNAS Nexus here.
May 2026 - The lab receives a supplement to Dr. Jenkins's NSF CAREER award for expanding K-12 resources for AI education.
April 2026 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on how the motivation to reduce uncertainty can increase reliance on weak explanations for others’ trait-inconsistent behavior.
April 2026 - Scott Kao presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on the relationship between agentic and experiential state inference in mentalizing about others.
April 2026 - Nardos Chegen presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on subtypes of uncertainty aversion and their relationships with autism and social anxiety.
April 2026 - New paper: "Using cognitive load tasks to constrain hypotheses about the role of the default mode network in social cognition: Uncertainty reduction as a unifying framework" is now published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences and available here.
March 2026 - The lab welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow Mu-Chen Wang. Dr. Wang joins the lab after completing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.
October 2025 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting on how motivation to reduce uncertainty can blunt rational updating of trait impressions.
September 2025 - The lab welcomes Research Specialists Scott Kao and Nardos Chegen. Scott joins the lab after completing his M.S. in Neuroscience at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; Nardos joins the lab after completing her B.A. in Psychology at Columbia University.
August 2025 - New paper: Led by Ham Huang, "Social inequity disrupts reward-based learning" is now published in Communications Psychology and available here.
June 2025 - New paper: Led by Dilara Berkay, "Uncertainty, not mental content, drives dorsomedial prefrontal engagement during inferences about others" is now published in the Journal of Neuroscience and available here.
May 2025 - New PhD! Congratulations to Dr. Goncharova on the successful defense of her PhD dissertation!
January 2025 - New paper: Led by Chloe Savage and Greer Prettyman, "Social Effort Discounting Reveals Domain-General and Social-Specific Motivation Components" is now published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging and available here.
July 2024 - New paper: With a team of collaborators led by Karina Hausladen and Marcus Gallo, "Social perceptions of warmth and competence predict callback rates in North American labor market experiments" is now published in PLoS ONE and available here.
June 2024 - Anna Jenkins receives the NSF CAREER Award for her proposal, "A neurocomputational approach to contextually flexible human social behavior". Thanks to NSF for supporting the lab's work!
April 2024 - Jaime Castrellon presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on how stereotypes and prospective imagination contribute to decisions made on behalf of others.
September 2023 - The lab welcomes Sunny Liu. Sunny joins the Jenkins Lab after completing his undergraduate work at the University of Rochester and post-bac research at Boston College.
August 2023 - New paper: Led by Dilara Berkay, "Semantic distance in word embeddings predicts neural responses during inferences about people and objects" is now published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and available here.
August 2023 - New paper: Led by Ham Huang, "A computational model of lexical false memory based on semantic distance from word embeddings" is now published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and available here.
July 2023 - Ham Huang presents at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting on a computational model of lexical false memory based on semantic distance in word embeddings.
June 2023 - New paper: Led by Rista Plate, with Ham Huang, "When uncertainty in social contexts increases exploration and decreases obtained rewards" is now published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and available here.
May 2023 - Two new PhDs! Congratulations to Dr. Berkay and Dr. Defendini on the successful defense of their PhD dissertations!
May 2023 - New paper: Led by Lori Flanagan-Cato, with Christina Steele and Rista Plate, "Effects of a service-learning course on mood and intergroup anxiety" is now published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education and available here.
May 2023 - New paper: Led by Ph.D. Candidate Ana Defendini, "Dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during inferences about other minds" is now published in Social Neuroscience and available here.
January 2023 - New paper: Led by Alice Xia and Sarah Solomon, and in collaboration with Sharon Thompson-Schill, "Constructing complex social categories under uncertainty" is now published online ahead of print at Cognition and available here.
November 2022 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Society for Neuroscience meeting on how dorsal medial prefrontal cortex responses track uncertainty across mental and nonmental inferences.
October 2022 - Ekaterina Goncharova presents at the Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting on how neural indices of imagination relate to patience in intertemporal decisions made on behalf of others
October 2022 - Ham Huang presents at the Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting on how social context shapes reward-based learning.
September 2022 - New paper: Led by Ph.D. Candidate Dilara Berkay, "A role for uncertainty in the neural distinction between social and nonsocial thought" is now published online ahead of print at Perspectives on Psychological Science and available here.
July 2022 - New paper: Led by postdoc Rista Plate and with Ham Huang, "Exploration is higher in social contexts at the cost of rewards" is now published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and available here.
July 2022 - The lab welcomes postdoc Jaime Castrellon. Jaime joins the Jenkins Lab and the Kable Lab as an NIH K00 postdoctoral fellow after completing his Ph.D. at Duke University.
May 2022 - New paper: Led by postdoc Kenji Kobayashi, "Neural representations of others' traits predict social decisions" is now published in PNAS and available here.
May 2022 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on responses to uncertainty in brain regions associated with mentalizing.
May 2022 - Christina Steele earns the Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Psychological Science in recognition of her poster on how repeated intergroup contact promotes more positive perceptions of what others think of us.
April 2022 - Rista Plate presents at the Society for Affective Science Meeting on imagination-induced empathy and decisions on behalf of oneself and others.
February 2022 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference on domain-general responses to uncertainty in a key brain region of the mentalizing network.
January 2022 - New paper: Led by postdoc Rista Plate, "Anticipating greater impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social life is associated with reduced adherence to disease-mitigating guidelines" is now published and available here.
September 2021 - Ham Huang presents at the virtual Computational Cognition Workshop meeting on how aspects of the social context shape value representations during learning.
May 2021 - Christina Steele presents at the virtual meeting of Association for Psychological Science on how remote intergroup contact reduces outgroup bias.
April 2021 - Ana Defendini presents at the virtual meeting of Social and Affective Neuroscience Society her fMRI meta-analysis dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content.
April 2021 - Kenji Kobayashi presents at the virtual meeting of Social and Affective Neuroscience Society on neural representations of others' traits during social decision-making.
March 2021 - Anna Jenkins receives the F.J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Research Grant. This award is given every two years by the American Psychological Foundation to recognize and support the efforts of one early career psychological scientist whose research advances understanding of the mind from both a behavioral and a neural perspective.
February 2021 - Ana Defendini presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on her meta-analytic findings dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during mentalizing.
February 2021 - Kenji Kobayashi presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on how neural representations of others' traits during social decision-making in some, but not all, brain regions can be used to predict behavior.
February 2021 - Christina Steele presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on the impact of repeated intergroup contact in a naturalistic setting on intergroup bias.
February 2021 - Rista Plate presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on how people's expectations about the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic relate to their willingness to curtail behaviors that spread disease.
July 2020 - Alice Xia presents at the virtual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society on how people construct social concepts under uncertainty.
February 2020 - Ekaterina Goncharova presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on the relationship between spontaneous imagination of the future and decisions on behalf of others.
January 2020 - The lab welcomes postdoc Rista Plate. Rista joins the lab as a MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
December 2019 - Christina Steele is awarded a Marshall Scholarship. Christina has been named the 16th Marshall Scholar in Penn's history. Congratulations to Christina on this tremendous and well-deserved accomplishment! More info. here.
December 2019 - New book chapter: "Neural and behavioral insights into online trust and uncertainty", with Uma Karmarkar, will appear in the forthcoming book, Organizational Neuroethics; you can read the abstract here.
November 2019 - Christina Steele receives an Alumni Society Research Grant to support her ongoing work in the Jenkins Lab. Congrats, Christina!
October 2019 - New paper: "Empathy affects tradeoffs between life's quality and duration" is in press at PLoS ONE and available here.
September 2019 - Ekaterina Goncharova's poster is accepted for presentation at the 2020 meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Join Ekaterina at the SPSP conference in New Orleans on February 28th, 2020, to hear about her work with Anna Jenkins investigating spontaneous imagination in decision-making on behalf of others.
September 2019 - The lab welcomes postdoc Vaida Rimeikyte. Vaida joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow after completing her Ph.D. at Cornell University.
August 2019 - NSF grant awarded! We are grateful to the National Science Foundation for supporting our research on the cognitive and neural mechanisms that produce decisions in social contexts.
July 2019 - Alice Xia's poster is accepted for presentation at the 2019 meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Join Alice in Montréal on November 15th to hear about her work with Sarah Solomon, Sharon Thompson-Schill, and Anna Jenkins examining how the mind constructs complex social concepts.
June 2019 - Anna Jenkins is named a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). This designation recognizes "substantial contribution to social psychology as an empirical science" and "significant publication in recognized journals or books."
June 2019 - New paper: "Rethinking cognitive load: A default-mode network perspective" is in press at Trends in Cognitive Sciences and available here.
April 2019 - Christina Steele receives a Hassenfield Foundation Social Impact Research Grant to conduct studies in the Jenkins Lab.
Penn's Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) awards the Hassenfield Foundation grant to projects with potential for real-world outcomes and significant social impact. Congratulations, Christina!
March 2019 - Christina Steele is awarded a Beinecke Scholarship.
The competitive Beinecke Scholarship provides funding for graduate education to a select group of college juniors. Congratulations, Christina!
September 2018 - New paper: "Predicting human behavior toward members of different social groups" is in press at PNAS and available here.
September 2018 - Ekaterina Goncharova's poster is accepted for presentation at the 2018 meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics.
Join Ekaterina in Philadelphia October 5-7 to hear about her research with Ming Hsu and Anna Jenkins examining patterns of decision-making in psychopathology.
June 2018 - Ekaterina Goncharova receives Highest Honors in Psychology at UC Berkeley.
Ekaterina earned Highest Honors in Psychology with her senior thesis examining patterns of social decision-making in psychopathology.
February 2018 - Ekaterina Goncharova's poster is accepted for presentation at the 2018 APS convention.
Join Ekaterina in San Francisco May 24-27 to hear about her senior thesis research examining patterns of social decision-making across three different psychopathologies at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
January 2018 - Anna Jenkins is named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS).
The Rising Star designation "recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions".
The Jenkins Lab: launching in Summer 2018 at the University of Pennsylvania.
Anna Jenkins will join the Penn faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Summer 2018.
August 2026 - Mostafa Abdelmageed presents at the MindCORE Summer Program Poster Session on the computational and neural effects of social inequity and social perception on reinforcement learning.
July 2026 - New paper: Led by Ham Huang and Mu-Chen Wang, Modeling context-sensitive effects of inequity on reinforcement learning is now published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and available here.
July 2026 - Anna Jenkins is named a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
June 2026 - Ham Huang presents at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology Meeting on how social inequity disrupts reinforcement learning.
May 2026 - New paper: "Decomposing cultural differences in behavior toward members of different social groups" is now available via advance access at PNAS Nexus here.
May 2026 - The lab receives a supplement to Dr. Jenkins's NSF CAREER award for expanding K-12 resources for AI education.
April 2026 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on how the motivation to reduce uncertainty can increase reliance on weak explanations for others’ trait-inconsistent behavior.
April 2026 - Scott Kao presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on the relationship between agentic and experiential state inference in mentalizing about others.
April 2026 - Nardos Chegen presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on subtypes of uncertainty aversion and their relationships with autism and social anxiety.
April 2026 - New paper: "Using cognitive load tasks to constrain hypotheses about the role of the default mode network in social cognition: Uncertainty reduction as a unifying framework" is now published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences and available here.
March 2026 - The lab welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow Mu-Chen Wang. Dr. Wang joins the lab after completing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.
October 2025 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting on how motivation to reduce uncertainty can blunt rational updating of trait impressions.
September 2025 - The lab welcomes Research Specialists Scott Kao and Nardos Chegen. Scott joins the lab after completing his M.S. in Neuroscience at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; Nardos joins the lab after completing her B.A. in Psychology at Columbia University.
August 2025 - New paper: Led by Ham Huang, "Social inequity disrupts reward-based learning" is now published in Communications Psychology and available here.
June 2025 - New paper: Led by Dilara Berkay, "Uncertainty, not mental content, drives dorsomedial prefrontal engagement during inferences about others" is now published in the Journal of Neuroscience and available here.
May 2025 - New PhD! Congratulations to Dr. Goncharova on the successful defense of her PhD dissertation!
January 2025 - New paper: Led by Chloe Savage and Greer Prettyman, "Social Effort Discounting Reveals Domain-General and Social-Specific Motivation Components" is now published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging and available here.
July 2024 - New paper: With a team of collaborators led by Karina Hausladen and Marcus Gallo, "Social perceptions of warmth and competence predict callback rates in North American labor market experiments" is now published in PLoS ONE and available here.
June 2024 - Anna Jenkins receives the NSF CAREER Award for her proposal, "A neurocomputational approach to contextually flexible human social behavior". Thanks to NSF for supporting the lab's work!
April 2024 - Jaime Castrellon presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on how stereotypes and prospective imagination contribute to decisions made on behalf of others.
September 2023 - The lab welcomes Sunny Liu. Sunny joins the Jenkins Lab after completing his undergraduate work at the University of Rochester and post-bac research at Boston College.
August 2023 - New paper: Led by Dilara Berkay, "Semantic distance in word embeddings predicts neural responses during inferences about people and objects" is now published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and available here.
August 2023 - New paper: Led by Ham Huang, "A computational model of lexical false memory based on semantic distance from word embeddings" is now published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and available here.
July 2023 - Ham Huang presents at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting on a computational model of lexical false memory based on semantic distance in word embeddings.
June 2023 - New paper: Led by Rista Plate, with Ham Huang, "When uncertainty in social contexts increases exploration and decreases obtained rewards" is now published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and available here.
May 2023 - Two new PhDs! Congratulations to Dr. Berkay and Dr. Defendini on the successful defense of their PhD dissertations!
May 2023 - New paper: Led by Lori Flanagan-Cato, with Christina Steele and Rista Plate, "Effects of a service-learning course on mood and intergroup anxiety" is now published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education and available here.
May 2023 - New paper: Led by Ph.D. Candidate Ana Defendini, "Dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during inferences about other minds" is now published in Social Neuroscience and available here.
January 2023 - New paper: Led by Alice Xia and Sarah Solomon, and in collaboration with Sharon Thompson-Schill, "Constructing complex social categories under uncertainty" is now published online ahead of print at Cognition and available here.
November 2022 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Society for Neuroscience meeting on how dorsal medial prefrontal cortex responses track uncertainty across mental and nonmental inferences.
October 2022 - Ekaterina Goncharova presents at the Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting on how neural indices of imagination relate to patience in intertemporal decisions made on behalf of others
October 2022 - Ham Huang presents at the Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting on how social context shapes reward-based learning.
September 2022 - New paper: Led by Ph.D. Candidate Dilara Berkay, "A role for uncertainty in the neural distinction between social and nonsocial thought" is now published online ahead of print at Perspectives on Psychological Science and available here.
July 2022 - New paper: Led by postdoc Rista Plate and with Ham Huang, "Exploration is higher in social contexts at the cost of rewards" is now published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and available here.
July 2022 - The lab welcomes postdoc Jaime Castrellon. Jaime joins the Jenkins Lab and the Kable Lab as an NIH K00 postdoctoral fellow after completing his Ph.D. at Duke University.
May 2022 - New paper: Led by postdoc Kenji Kobayashi, "Neural representations of others' traits predict social decisions" is now published in PNAS and available here.
May 2022 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting on responses to uncertainty in brain regions associated with mentalizing.
May 2022 - Christina Steele earns the Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Psychological Science in recognition of her poster on how repeated intergroup contact promotes more positive perceptions of what others think of us.
April 2022 - Rista Plate presents at the Society for Affective Science Meeting on imagination-induced empathy and decisions on behalf of oneself and others.
February 2022 - Dilara Berkay presents at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference on domain-general responses to uncertainty in a key brain region of the mentalizing network.
January 2022 - New paper: Led by postdoc Rista Plate, "Anticipating greater impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social life is associated with reduced adherence to disease-mitigating guidelines" is now published and available here.
September 2021 - Ham Huang presents at the virtual Computational Cognition Workshop meeting on how aspects of the social context shape value representations during learning.
May 2021 - Christina Steele presents at the virtual meeting of Association for Psychological Science on how remote intergroup contact reduces outgroup bias.
April 2021 - Ana Defendini presents at the virtual meeting of Social and Affective Neuroscience Society her fMRI meta-analysis dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content.
April 2021 - Kenji Kobayashi presents at the virtual meeting of Social and Affective Neuroscience Society on neural representations of others' traits during social decision-making.
March 2021 - Anna Jenkins receives the F.J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Research Grant. This award is given every two years by the American Psychological Foundation to recognize and support the efforts of one early career psychological scientist whose research advances understanding of the mind from both a behavioral and a neural perspective.
February 2021 - Ana Defendini presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on her meta-analytic findings dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during mentalizing.
February 2021 - Kenji Kobayashi presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on how neural representations of others' traits during social decision-making in some, but not all, brain regions can be used to predict behavior.
February 2021 - Christina Steele presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on the impact of repeated intergroup contact in a naturalistic setting on intergroup bias.
February 2021 - Rista Plate presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on how people's expectations about the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic relate to their willingness to curtail behaviors that spread disease.
July 2020 - Alice Xia presents at the virtual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society on how people construct social concepts under uncertainty.
February 2020 - Ekaterina Goncharova presents at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on the relationship between spontaneous imagination of the future and decisions on behalf of others.
January 2020 - The lab welcomes postdoc Rista Plate. Rista joins the lab as a MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
December 2019 - Christina Steele is awarded a Marshall Scholarship. Christina has been named the 16th Marshall Scholar in Penn's history. Congratulations to Christina on this tremendous and well-deserved accomplishment! More info. here.
December 2019 - New book chapter: "Neural and behavioral insights into online trust and uncertainty", with Uma Karmarkar, will appear in the forthcoming book, Organizational Neuroethics; you can read the abstract here.
November 2019 - Christina Steele receives an Alumni Society Research Grant to support her ongoing work in the Jenkins Lab. Congrats, Christina!
October 2019 - New paper: "Empathy affects tradeoffs between life's quality and duration" is in press at PLoS ONE and available here.
September 2019 - Ekaterina Goncharova's poster is accepted for presentation at the 2020 meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Join Ekaterina at the SPSP conference in New Orleans on February 28th, 2020, to hear about her work with Anna Jenkins investigating spontaneous imagination in decision-making on behalf of others.
September 2019 - The lab welcomes postdoc Vaida Rimeikyte. Vaida joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow after completing her Ph.D. at Cornell University.
August 2019 - NSF grant awarded! We are grateful to the National Science Foundation for supporting our research on the cognitive and neural mechanisms that produce decisions in social contexts.
July 2019 - Alice Xia's poster is accepted for presentation at the 2019 meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Join Alice in Montréal on November 15th to hear about her work with Sarah Solomon, Sharon Thompson-Schill, and Anna Jenkins examining how the mind constructs complex social concepts.
June 2019 - Anna Jenkins is named a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). This designation recognizes "substantial contribution to social psychology as an empirical science" and "significant publication in recognized journals or books."
June 2019 - New paper: "Rethinking cognitive load: A default-mode network perspective" is in press at Trends in Cognitive Sciences and available here.
April 2019 - Christina Steele receives a Hassenfield Foundation Social Impact Research Grant to conduct studies in the Jenkins Lab.
Penn's Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) awards the Hassenfield Foundation grant to projects with potential for real-world outcomes and significant social impact. Congratulations, Christina!
March 2019 - Christina Steele is awarded a Beinecke Scholarship.
The competitive Beinecke Scholarship provides funding for graduate education to a select group of college juniors. Congratulations, Christina!
September 2018 - New paper: "Predicting human behavior toward members of different social groups" is in press at PNAS and available here.
September 2018 - Ekaterina Goncharova's poster is accepted for presentation at the 2018 meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics.
Join Ekaterina in Philadelphia October 5-7 to hear about her research with Ming Hsu and Anna Jenkins examining patterns of decision-making in psychopathology.
June 2018 - Ekaterina Goncharova receives Highest Honors in Psychology at UC Berkeley.
Ekaterina earned Highest Honors in Psychology with her senior thesis examining patterns of social decision-making in psychopathology.
February 2018 - Ekaterina Goncharova's poster is accepted for presentation at the 2018 APS convention.
Join Ekaterina in San Francisco May 24-27 to hear about her senior thesis research examining patterns of social decision-making across three different psychopathologies at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
January 2018 - Anna Jenkins is named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS).
The Rising Star designation "recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions".
The Jenkins Lab: launching in Summer 2018 at the University of Pennsylvania.
Anna Jenkins will join the Penn faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Summer 2018.
