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Recent Alum

Katie O'Connell, PhD

Social Scientist, The Lab @ DC

Katie is a graduate student in Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN). She received her Bachelors of Science degree in Biology-Neuroscience from The Pennsylvania State University in 2013. She then completed a post-baccalaureate research fellowship with Drs. Christian Grillon and Monique Ernst at the NIMH in which her focus was using fMRI and psychophysiological techniques to investigate neural mechanisms underlying anxiety. She joined LSAN in the spring of 2016 and is working towards her PhD investigating the subcortical substrates of altruism and affective empathy.

Recent Publications

Amormino, P., O’Connell, K., Vekaria, K. M., Robertson, E. L., Meena, L., & Marsh, A. A.

(2022).

Beliefs about humanity, not higher power, predict extraordinary altruism

In: Journal of Research in Personality 101, 104313

O’Connell, K., Walsh, M., Padgett, B., Connell, C. Marsh, A. A.

(2022).

Modeling variation in empathic sensitivity using go/no-go social reinforcement learning

In: Affective Science, 3, 603–615

O’Connell, K., Marsh, A. A., Edwards, D. F., Dromerick, A. W., Seydell-Greenwald, A.

(2021).

Emotion recognition impairments and social well-being following right-hemisphere stroke

In: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Cardinale, Elise M; Reber, Justin; O’Connell, Katherine; Turkeltaub, Peter E; Tranel, Daniel; Buchanan, Tony W; Marsh, Abigail A

(2021).

Bilateral amygdala damage linked to impaired ability to predict others’ fear but preserved moral judgements about causing others fear

In: The Royal Society, 288 (1943), pp. 20202651

O’Connell, K., Berluti, K., Rhoads, S. A., & Marsh, A. A.

(2021).

Reduced social distancing early in the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with antisocial behaviors in an online United States sample

In: PLoS One, 16(1): e0244974