Published in Scientific Reports, 2024
O’Connell, K., Marsh, A.A., Seydell-Greenwald, A. (2024). Right hemisphere stroke is linked to reduced social connectedness in the UK Biobank cohort. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 27293.
Published in The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions, 2024
O'Connell, K., Rhoads, S.A., Marsh, A.A. (2024). Fear: An Evolutionary Perspective on Its Biological, Behavioral, and Communicative Features. The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Al-Shawaf, L. (ed.), Shackelford, T.K. (ed.). Oxford University Press.
Published in PNAS nexus, 2023
Rhoads, S.A., O’Connell, K., Berluti, K., Ploe, M.L., Elizabeth, H.S., Amormino, P., Li, J.L., Dutton, M.A., VanMeter, A.S., Marsh, A.A. (2023). Neural responses underlying extraordinary altruists’ generosity for socially distant others. PNAS nexus. 2(7), pgad199.
Published in Nature Communications, 2023
Rhoads, S.A., Vekaria, K.M., O’Connell, K., Elizabeth, H.S., Rand, D.G., Kozak Williams, M.N., Marsh, A. A. (2023). Unselfish traits and social decision-making patterns characterize six populations of real-world extraordinary altruists. Nature Communications. 14(1), 1807.
Published in Journal of Research in Personality, 2022
Amormino, P., O’Connell, K., Vekaria, K.M., Robertson, E.L., Meena, L.B., Marsh, A. A. (2022). Beliefs about humanity, not higher power, predict extraordinary altruism. Journal of Research in Personality. 101, 104313.
Published in Affective Science, 2022
O’Connell, K., Walsh, M., Padgett, B., Connell, S., Marsh, A. A. (2022). Modeling variation in empathic sensitivity using go/no-go social reinforcement learning. Affective Science. 3, 603-615.
Published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2021
O’Connell, K., Marsh, A. A., Edwards, D. F., Dromerick, A. & Seydell-Greenwald, A. (2021). Emotion recognition impairments and social well-being following right-hemisphere stroke. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 2021
Cardinale, E. M., Reber, J., OConnell, K., Turkeltaub, P. E., Tranel, D., Buchanan, T. W. & Marsh, A. A. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1943), 20202651.
Published in PLoS One, 2021
OConnell, 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. PLoS One. 16(1), e0244974
Published in Journal of Personality Disorders, 2020
Berluti, K., O’Connell, K., Rhoads, S. A., Brethel-Haurwitz, K. M., Cardinale, E. M., Robertson, E. L., Walitt, B., VanMeter, J.W. & Marsh, A. A. (2020). Reduced multi-voxel pattern similarity of vicarious neural pain responses in psychopathy. Journal of Personality Disorders. 34(5), 628-649.
Published in Personality Neuroscience, 2020
Rhoads, S. A., Cardinale, E. M., O’Connell, K., Palmer, A. L., VanMeter, J. W., & Marsh, A. A. (2020). Mapping neural activity patterns to contextualized fearful facial expressions onto callous-unemotional (CU) traits: Intersubject representational similarity analysis reveals less variation among high-CU adolescents. Personality Neuroscience. 3(e12), 1–18.
Published in Cortex, 2020
Vekaria, K. M., O’Connell, K., Rhoads, S. A., Brethel-Haurwitz, K. M., Cardinale, E. M., Robertson, E. L., Walitt, B., VanMeter, J.W. & Marsh, A. A. (2020). Activation in bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) corresponds to everyday helping. Cortex. 127, 67-77.
Published in Psychological Medicine, 2019
Cardinale, E. M., O’Connell, K., Robertson, E. L., Meena, L. B., Breeden, A. L., Lozier, L. M., VanMeter, J. W. & Marsh, A. A. (2019). Callous and uncaring traits are associated with reductions in amygdala volume among youths with varying levels of conduct problems. Psychological Medicine. 49(9), 1449-1458.
Published in Scientific Reports, 2019
O’Connell, K., Brethel-Haurwitz, K. M., Rhoads, S. A., Cardinale, E. M., Vekaria, K. M., Robertson, E. L., Walitt, B., VanMeter, J. W. & Marsh, A. A. (2019). Increased similarity of neural responses to experienced and empathic distress in costly altruism. Scientific Reports. 9(1), 10774.
Published in Translational Psychiatry, 2018
Torrisi, S., Gorka, A. X., Gonzalez-Castillo, J., O’Connell, K., Balderston, N., Grillon, C. & Ernst, M. (2018). Extended amygdala connectivity changes during sustained shock anticipation. Translational Psychiatry. 8(1), 33.
Published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2017
Grillon, C., O’Connell, K., Lieberman, L., Alvarez, G., Geraci, M., Pine, D. S. & Ernst, M. (2017). Distinct responses to predictable and unpredictable threat in anxiety pathologies: effect of panic attack. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2(7), 575-581.
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 2017
Brethel-Haurwitz, K.M., O’Connell, K., Cardinale, E.M., Stoianova, M., Stoycos, S., Lozier, L., VanMeter, J.W. & Marsh, A.A. (2017). Amygdala-midbrain connectivity indicates a role for the mammalian parental care system in extraordinary altruism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284(1865), 20171731.
Published in Emotion, 2017
Grillon, C., Robinson, O. J., Krimsky, M., O’Connell, K., Alvarez, G. & Ernst, M. (2017). Anxiety-mediated facilitation of behavioral inhibition: threat processing and defensive reactivity during a go/nogo task. Emotion. 17(2), 259-266.
Published in Psychological Medicine, 2017
Grillon, C., Robinson, O. J., O’Connell, K., Davis, A., Alvarez, G., Pine, D. S. & Ernst, M. (2017). Clinical anxiety promotes excessive response inhibition. Psychological Medicine. 47(3), 484-494.
Published in Depression and Anxiety, 2017
Balderston, N. L., Vytal, K., O’Connell, K., Torrisi, S., Ernst, M. & Grillon, C. (2017). Anxiety patients show reduced working memory related DLPFC activation during safety and threat. Depression and Anxiety. 34(1), 25-36.
Published in Psychophysiology, 2016
Balderston, N.L., Quispe-Escudero, D., Hale, E., Davis, A., O’Connell, K., Ersnt, M. & Grillon, C. Working memory maintenance is sufficient to reduce state anxiety. Psychophysiology. 53(11), 1660-1668.
Published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2016
Torrisi, S., Robinson, O. J., O’Connell, K., Davis, A., Balderston, N., Ernst, M. & Grillon, C. (2016). The neural basis of improved cognitive performance during anxiety by threat of shock. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 11(11), 1677-1686.
Published in Human Brain Mapping, 2015
Torrisi, S., O’Connell, K., Davis, A., Reynolds, R., Balderston, N., Fudge, J., Grillon, C. & Ernst, M. (2015). Resting state connectivity of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis at ultra-high field. Human Brain Mapping. 36(10), 4076-4088.
Published in Brain and Cognition, 2014
Ernst, M., Hale, E. & O’Connell, K. (2014). Response to commentaries regarding the Triadic Systems Model perspective. Brain and Cognition. 89, 122-126.