Contact Information:

Department of Psychology

Harvard University

33 Kirkland Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Education

Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH

A.B. Psychological and Brain Sciences, Government, 2005

Minor in French Language and Literature

Harvard University - CAMBRIDGE, MA

A.M. Psychology, 2009

Ph.D. Psychology, expected Spring 2012

Publications

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 A. Todorov, S.T. Fiske, & D. Prentice (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 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., Tenenbaum, J.D., Goodman, N.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.

PRESENTATIONS

Jenkins, A.C. (2011). Reading the minds of others: Dissociable neural processes and their social consequences. Talk given for the Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, November 2011.

Jenkins, A.C. (2011). Reversals in the relationship between empathy and a typical pro-social behavior. Talk given for SaxeLab, MIT, October 2011.

Jenkins, A.C. (2011). Reversals in the relationship between empathy and prosocial behavior. Talk given at the Decision-Making Research Workshop, Harvard University, September 2011.

Jenkins, A.C. & Wegner, D.M. (2011). A dire consequence of empathy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio TX, January 2011.

Jenkins, A.C. (2010). The neural basis of social cognition: Effects of similarity, perspective-taking, and uncertainty on how people read other minds. Talk given at the Role of Social Cognition in Language Processing Workshop, Cambridge, MA, July 2010.

Jenkins, A.C. & Wegner, D.M. (2010). Half a mind: considering others’ intentions decreases sensitivity to their emotions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV, January 2010.

Jenkins, A.C. (2009). Dissociable processes for reading other minds. Talk given at the Dartmouth/Minary Small Group Meeting, Holderness, NH, August 2009.

Jenkins, A.C. (2009). Facets of self-reflection. Talk given at the Research Workshop in Social Psychology, Harvard University, April 2009.

Jenkins, A.C. & Mitchell, J.P. (2008). Mentalizing under uncertainty. Poster presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Conference, Boston, MA, June 2008.

Ames, D.L., Jenkins, A.C., Banaji, M.R., & Mitchell, J.P. (2008). Taking another’s perspective increases self-referential neural processing. Poster presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience conference, Boston, MA, June 2008. (Primary presenter: D.L. Ames)

Jenkins, A.C. (2008). Mentalizing under uncertainty. Talk given for the Department of Psychology, Harvard University, May 2008.

Quadflieg, S., Turk, D.J., Waiter, G.D., Mitchell, J.P., Jenkins, A.C., & Macrae, C.N. (2008). The neural correlates of gender stereotyping. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 2008. (Primary presenter: S. Quadflieg.)

Jenkins, A.C. & Mitchell, J.P. (2007). A shared basis for understanding self and other: the effects of perceived similarity. Poster presented at the Neural Systems of Social Behavior Conference, Austin, TX, May 2007.

Jenkins, A.C. (2007). Using self-reference to understand the minds of others. Talk given at the Research Workshop in Social Psychology, Harvard University, April 2007.

Jenkins, A.C., Goodman, N.D., & Schulz, L.E. (2007). Going beyond the evidence: Preschoolers’ inferences about abstract causal laws and responses to anomalous data. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, March 2007.

Jenkins, A.C. (2007). Using self-reference to understand the minds of others. Presented at the Social Brain Sciences Winter Summit, Sunday River, ME, March 2007.

Jenkins, A.C. (2006). Social cognition and the brain. Guest lecture for Psychology 2320: Applying FMRI to Cognitive Research (Yuhong Jiang), Fall 2006.

Jenkins, A.C. (2006). Going beyond the evidence: preschoolers, causal inference, and social cognition. Talk given at the Research Workshop in Social Cognitive Development, Harvard University, December 2006.

TEACHING AND MENTORING

Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching, Harvard University, 2007, 2009, 2010.

George W. Goethals Teaching Prize, Harvard University, 2010.

2007-2008 Teaching Fellow, Introductory Psychology

2008-2009 Teaching Fellow, Introductory Psychology

Student Mentor, Mental Control Laboratory

2009-2010 Teaching Fellow, Psychological Science

Instructor, Contemporary Issues in Psychology: Intensive Cross-Level Analysis

Student Mentor, Mental Control Laboratory

Undergraduate honors thesis advisor (with Dan Wegner)

2010-2011 Student Mentor, Mental Control Laboratory

Undergraduate honors thesis advisor (with Dan Wegner)

2011-2012 Student Mentor, Mental Control Laboratory

Undergraduate honors thesis advisor (with Josh Greene)