Katie O'Connell

Social Scientist in @TheLab_DC

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

@Metrorailinfo What’s going on at Rockville? Lots of folks waiting 20+ min for DC bound train

[The Lab @ DC @TheLab_DC]

🧵Thrilled to share our latest publication in @NatureHumBehav

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[Nobody Told Me podcast @nobodytoldmepod]

🎙️ Dr. Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh enlightens us with #TheFearFactor. From #altruists to #psychopaths, she reveals the emotions that define us. An insightful read from Georgetown University's shining star in psychology. 📘🧠 Listen now! 🎧 ⁣⁣⁣https://t.co/nPlIlW0OJG

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

Placing a higher value on the welfare of others distinguishes real-world altruists. Unsurprisingly, effective interventions in this area will pose a challenge for the field. Thanks @shawnrhoadsphd for leading one of my favorite LSAN projects!

[Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd]

In prior work, we found that one of the features best distinguishing real-world extraordinary altruists from controls is their reduced social discounting:

https://t.co/DFC6dU54NZ

https://t.co/RbXQnOcMRH

Neural responses underlying this pattern had not been examined until now

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

🎉Thrilled to share I was awarded the 2023 Harold N. Glassman Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences by @Georgetown

Thank you to all of my colleagues that made my dissertation work possible. Special thanks to my advisor, @aa_marsh, and collaborator, @seygreena

[Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd]

Out now in @NatureComms! 🎉

6 populations of real-world extraordinary altruists are best distinguished from typical adults by their unusually unselfish traits & decision-making patterns

@KrutiVekaria @kmo5128 @hannahsavitz @DG_Rand Megan Kozak @aa_marsh

https://t.co/izqD6gb6Vb

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

@SCCANBot Good bot!

[Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd]

🚨 NEW PREPRINT 🚨

Thrilled to share this pre-registered study on the *neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others* with @lin_gllg @kathrynberluti @kmo5128 @drjocutler @thepsychologist @aa_marsh

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https://t.co/lp9wbTV4xw

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

🔥📢🔥 Passionate about conducting rigorous, applied research? Come work with me as a PhD-level Social Scientist in @TheLab_DC. Less than a week left to apply! (You just need a resume or CV)

https://t.co/vRATnzu3hP #dcjobs #ScienceTwitter #rjobs #rstats #hiring #AcademicTwitter

[The Lab @ DC @TheLab_DC]

Job Alert! 🚨We’re looking for PhD-level Social Scientists to help use evidence and data to meet DC’s most critical problems. Apply by November 21, 2022. https://t.co/Cgyvt9ba2j
#data #evidence #government #hiring #jobopening

[Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh]

New findings about extraordinary altruists' religious beliefs and beliefs in other people by @PaigeAmormino @kmo5128 @KrutiVekaria and @ELRobertson16. Altruists are mainly distinguished by being less likely to believe other people can be truly evil. https://t.co/kf9W0ZJ62g

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

Great data science job opportunity at @DCPoliceDept for scientists interested in making the switch to public service / applied research 💯💯

[The Lab @ DC @TheLab_DC]

The @DCPoliceDept is #hiring a Data Scientist to help inform and evaluate DC's public safety services. Put your data analytic and scientific methods skills to good use!

https://t.co/LIvfPCS4YP Job ID 17613
#jobs #dcjobs #datasciencejobs #DataScience

[Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh]

Out in @AffectScience this week! New paper by @kmo5128 using computational behavioral modeling to quantify variation in empathic sensitivity using go/no-go social reinforcement learning. 1/

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

@LCHeathcote @a2cps_pain @massihmoayedi @kren27 @laurenatlas @Geha_Paul @SBurnettHeyes Fascinating! I’m surprised about the ceiling effects in teens. We found it important to have subjs arms hang flat against the wall (not touching thighs), which is not always well documented in the literature -- adds to the difficultly of comparing times between studies currently.

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

Thanks for the wonderful discussion!

[A2CPS - Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures @a2cps_pain]

When COVID shut down #painresearch in labs, Katie O'Connell took her studies online with innovative #pain testing in subjects via zoom. Great talk today in the Human Pain Series hosted by @massihmoayedi and discussion from @kren27 @laurenatlas @Geha_Paul https://t.co/Aq3SKAXkSb

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

📢📢 Check out our newest preprint on individual differences in social reinforcement learning. We report that antisociality is associated with reduced sensitivity to losing money for a study partner.

https://t.co/WblkXjqAiF @aa_marsh

[PsyArXiv-bot @PsyArXivBot]

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

https://t.co/w9d52xcAs6

[Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd]

We identified 3 conceptually and motivationally coherent types of prosocial decisions: cooperation, equity, and altruism.

Meta-analytic results across 43 fMRI studies (1423 subjects) further supported this: each prosocial decision type recruited largely different neural regions.

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

Wonderfully insightful plenary by George Koob for @SIPSPlacebo today. Neatly bridged topics from addiction to pain to conditioning to social isolation and allostasis. WOTD is #hyperkatifeia - hypersensitivity to emotional distress especially during drug withdrawal #SIPS2021

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

📌 #SANS2021 come on by my virtual poster booth later today (5:45pm EST / 2:45pm PST) on emotion recognition after right-hemisphere stroke. 2-E-116 https://t.co/6a21yPD6k8