Adam Anderson

Professor

Psychology

Curriculum vitae

Office

162 Human Ecology Building

Phone

(607) 255-7392

Fax

(607) 255-9856

aka47@cornell.edu

Biography

At some point in time I have found myself at Vassar, Harvard, City College NY, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Toronto. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island, I am happy to be back in my home state of NY and hoping to live up to Cornell's land grant mission.

I am interested in the role of the emotions in all human faculties. Considering both psychological, physiological and neural levels of analysis, a guiding principle in my work is understanding the function of emotions as distinct tools intended to help rather than hurt us.

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Selected publications

Todd, R., Miskovic, V., Chikazoe, J. & Anderson A.K (2020) Emotional Objectivity: Neuroscience of emotion and its interactions with cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 71.

Hu, K., DeRosa, E. & Anderson, A.K.(2018). Differential temporal salience of earning and saving. Nature Communications, 9(1),2843.

Chikazoe, J., Lee, D., Kriegekorte, N, Anderson A.K. (2014). Population level coding of affect across stimuli, modalities and individuals. Nature Neuroscience, 17:1114-22.

Chapman, H.A., Kim, D.A., Susskind, J.M. & Anderson, A.K. (2009). In Bad Taste: Evidence for the Oral Origins of Moral Disgust. Science, 27:1222-1226.

Susskind, J., Lee, D., Cusi, A., Feinman, R. & Grabski, W. Anderson, A.K. (2008). Expressing fear enhances sensory acquisition. Nature Neuroscience, 11(7): 843-50.

Rowe G, *Hirsh JB, Anderson AK. (2007). Positive affect increases the breadth of attentional selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(1):383-8.

Anderson A.K., Christoff K., Stappen I., *Panitz D., Ghahremani D.G., Glover G., Gabrieli J.D., Sobel N. (2003). Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction. Nature Neuroscience, 6(2):196-202

Anderson, A.K., & Phelps, E.A. (2001). Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events. Nature, 411, 305-309

Public engagement activities

With the assistance of Engaged Cornell, we have designed and implemented in inner city Syracuse NY a neuroscience early education program "Get to Know Your Brain Days". This program involves engaging Cornell undergraduates in community based research and mentorship of high school students to engage K-5th grade students in learning about themselves through understanding how their brains create thoughts, emotions and behavior.

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