Ann M. Kring, Ph.D.

I am interested in social-emotion-cognitive processes and how they do (and do not) go awry in psychopathology, particularly schizophrenia. I currently study basic emotion processes that underpin the negative symptoms in schizophrenia, including the ways in which emotion influences cognition, goal-directed behavior, and social interactions. This work unpacks these processes at the behavioral, subjective, physiological, and neural levels.

Graduate Students

Erin Moran (email)

Broadly, I'm interested in emotion, motivation, and memory and the disruption of these processes in psychopathology and neurodegenerative disorders.  I'm currently investigating anticipation in the time course of emotion utilizing self-report and measures of physiology in healthy controls and those with depression symptoms. I am also interested in investigating gender differences in the time course and experience of emotion to better understand different symptom profiles of men and women with mental illness.

Janelle Caponigro (email)

I received my B.S. in Psychology and Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. Upon graduation, I worked as a research coordinator at a VA hospital in Pittsburgh. I'm interested in negative symptoms in schizophrenia and how disruptions in emotional and behavioral experiences can impact social and functional outcomes. Currently, I'm investigating the role of memory in the ability to anticipate future experiences and whether emotions enhance or disrupt this process. I'm also working on a group intervention to increase awareness and coping with emotion in schizophrenia. In the future, I hope to bridge the gap between emotional experience and expression by studying how anticipatory pleasure deficits relate to impairments in motivated behavior. With this line of research, I hope to advance our methods for improving social functioning deficits and overall well-being for individuals with severe mental illness.

Tim Campellone (email)

I graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience. After graduation, I worked as a research coordinator in the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Broadly stated, I am interested in factors that can influence emotion perception and social functioning in both healthy and clinical populations. I am currently investigating how a social partner’s expressed emotion and behavior impacts decision making and facial muscle activity during an interaction. In addition, I am using a newly created computerized task to examine how context influences the perception of emotion among individuals with schizophrenia

Ori Elis (email)

I received my B.A. from Smith College with degrees in both Psychology and Studio Art. After spending time working as case manager for people with a severe mental illness, I earned my Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University in 2006. My research interests revolve around social reward processing, interpersonal interactions in schizophrenia, and novel psychosocial interventions for the psychotic spectrum disorders. Currently, I am setting up an fMRI study that examines the neural correlates of the anticipation and receipt of social vs. primary reward in a healthy population.

Jasmine Mote

I received my B.A. in Psychology from Oberlin College. After graduation I worked as a research associate in the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston. Broadly, I am interested in the mechanisms involved with the regulation of positive affect and how memory of emotional experiences influences goal-directed behavior in both clinical and healthy populations. I am also interested in examining gender differences in the experience and expression of emotion in individuals with schizophrenia.

Andrew Kennedy 

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Department of Psychology
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