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Kathryn Berluti Portrait

Recent Alum

Kathryn (Adams) Berluti, PhD

Quantitative Research and Data Science Consultant, W2 Consulting Corporation

I am a PhD student in the Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience concentration. I graduated from The Pennsylvania State University in 2016, where I majored in Psychology, with a focus in Neuroscience. I then worked as a research assistant at the Center for Neurobehavioral Research with Dr. James Blair where I studied the neural correlates of aggression and callous-unemotional traits. I currently study dysfunction in empathy and emotion processing circuitries in clinical populations.

Recent Publications

Berluti, K., Kasparek, S. W., Venticinque, J. S., McLaughlin, K. A., & Marsh, A. A.

(2025).

Independent impacts of maltreatment and amygdala volume on worsening callous-unemotional traits in high-risk youths

In: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 53, 1107–1120.

Berluti, K., Ploe, M. L., Doherty, H., Jones, D. N., Patrick, C. J., Marsh, A. A.

(2025).

Prevalence and correlates of psychopathy in the general population

In: Journal of Personality Disorders, 39(1), 1-21.

Rhoads, S. A., O'Connell, K., Berluti, K., Ploe, M. L., Elizabeth, H. S., Amormino, P., Li, J., Dutton, M. A., VanMeter, A. S., Marsh, A. A.

(2023).

Neural responses underlying extraordinary altruists’ generosity for socially distant others

In: PNAS Nexus, pgad199

Ploe, M. L., Berluti, K., Ibonie, S. G., Villanueva, C. M., Marsh, A., Gruber, J.

(2023).

Psychopathy and associations with reward responsiveness and social networks in emerging adults

In: Journal of Research in Personality 103, 104357

Berluti, K., Ploe, M., & Marsh, A. A.

(2023).

Emotion processing in youths with conduct problems: An fMRI meta-analysis

In: Translational Psychiatry, 13, 105