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  Anne Krendl

Post-doctoral Fellow

Tufts University
Psychology Department
490 Boston Ave.
Medford, MA 02155

About me
I received my B.A. from Harvard University in 1998, and my Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 2008. After graduating from Harvard, I worked at CNN for 4 years as a national assignment editor, and then as a research assistant at a memory and aging lab at MIT for two years.

My main research interest centers around identifying the neural and cognitive processes underlying how we perceive stigmatized individuals, and understanding how those processes change over the lifespan. I use behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) techniques to investigate these questions.

Select publications

  • Krendl, A.C., Heatherton, T.F., & Kensinger, E.A. (2009). Aging minds twisting attitudes: An fMRI investigation of age differences in inhibiting prejudice. Psychology and Aging, 24 (3), 530-541.

  • Krendl, A.C., Magoon, N.S., Hull, J.G., & Heatherton, T.F. (in press). Judging a book by its cover: The differential impact of attractiveness on predicting one's acceptance to high or low status social groups. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

  • Krendl, A.C. & Heatherton, T.F. (in press). Components of the social brain. Cacciopo, J.T., & Bernston, G., eds. Handbook of Neuroscience. John Wiley & Sons.

  • Krendl, A.C., Richeson, J.A., Kelley, W.M., & Heatherton, T.F (2008). The negative consequences of threat: An fMRI investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying women’s underperformance in math. Psychological Science, 19(2), 168-175.

  • Hamilton, A.F. & Krendl, A.C. (2007). Social Cognition: Overturning Stereotypes
    of and with Autism. Current Biology, 17 (6), 641-2.

  • Krendl, A.C., Macrae, C.N., Kelley, W.M., Fugelsang, J.F., & Heatherton, T.F. (2006). The good, the bad, and the ugly: An fMRI investigation of the functional anatomic correlates of stigma. Social Neuroscience, 1(1), 5-15.

  • Kensinger E.A., Krendl A.C., & Corkin S. (2006). Memories for an Emotional and a Nonemotional Event: Effects of Age and Delay. Experimental Aging Review, 32(1), 23-45.

  • Kensinger E.A., Piguet O., Krendl A,. & Corkin S. (2005). Memory for Contextual Details: Effects of Emotion and Aging, Psychology & Aging, 20(2), 241-250.

  • Skotko B., Kensinger E.A., Locascio J.J., Einstein J.G., Rubin D.C., Tupler L.A., Krendl A., & Corkin S. (2004). Puzzling thoughts for H.M.: Can new semantic memories be anchored to old semantic memories? Neuropsychology, 18, 756-769.