Emily Perkins
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Florida State University, In Progress
B.A., Psychology, Georgetown University, 2014
Email: Perkins@psy.fsu.edu
Research Interests
I am interested in biobehavioral traits contributing to psychopathology, particularly callousness and disinhibition, and the ways they interact, change, and exert influence across development. Over the long term, I plan to utilize my research to inform early, biologically informed intervention in the development of antisocial behavior. My current research utilizes electrocortical response (event-related potentials), functional neuroimaging (fMRI), self-report measures, and other indicators including self-reported pain threshold/tolerance to develop our multi-domain understanding of core dispositional liabilities across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Current projects include development of a self-report callousness scale and examination of BOLD correlates, investigation of the influence of traits on brain responses during instructed emotion regulation, and structural modeling of multi-domain models involving callousness and empathy.
Selected Publications
Perkins, E. R., Sörman, K., McDermott, K. A., & Patrick, C. J. (submitted). Interrelations among biobehavioral traits, emotion regulation strategies, and clinical symptoms. Emotion.
Perkins, E. R., Palumbo, I. M., Yancey, J. R., Brislin, S. J., & Patrick, C. J. (2017). Multi-domain assessment of callousness: Heritability, reliability, and validity considerations. Psychophysiology, 54, S134.
Perkins, E. R., Yancey, J. R., Drislane, L. E., Venables, N. C., Balsis, S., & Patrick, C. J. (2017). Methodological issues in the use of individual brain measures to index trait liabilities: The example of noise-probe P3. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 111, 145-155.