Assistant Professor of Translational Neuroscience

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Dr. Harenski's research is focused on the cognitive neuroscience of psychopathy and paraphilias (pedophilia and sadism), disorders that are related to criminal behavior and incarceration. This research is conducted in prison populations using the Mind Research Network’s mobile MRI scanner. Of particular interest is the study of moral judgment in individuals with these disorders.

Dr. Harenski’s research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Education
•  BS, Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada

•  PhD, Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Publications
•  Harenski, CL, Hare, RD, & Kiehl, KA. (in press).  Neuroimaging, Genetics, and Psychopathy:  Implications for the legal system.  In Responsibility and Psychopathy: Interfacing Law, Psychiatry and Philosophy.  L. Malatesti & J McMillan, Ed., Oxford University Press, London, UK.
•  Harenski CL & Kiehl KA. (in press). Reactive aggression in psychopathy and the role of frustration: Susceptibility, experience, and control. British Journal of Psychology.
•  Harenski CL, Antonenko, O, Shane, MS, & Kiehl, KA. (2010).  A functional imaging investigation of moral deliberation and moral intuition. Neuroimage, 49, 2707-2716.
•  Harenski CL, Kim S, & Hamann S. (2009). Neuroticism and psychopathic traits predict brain activity during moral and non-moral emotion regulation. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 1-15.
•  Shane MS, Stevens MC, Harenski CL, & Kiehl, KA (2009). Double-dissociation between perspective-taking and empathic-concern as predictors of hemodynamic response to another’s mistakes. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 4, 111-118.
•  Harenski CL, Antonenko O, Shane MS, Kiehl KA. (2008). Gender differences in neural mechanisms underlying moral sensitivity. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience. 3, 313-324.
•  Shane MS, Stevens M, Harenski CL, & Kiehl KA. (2008). Neural correlates of the processing of another’s mistakes: A possible underpinning for social and observational learning. Neuroimage, 42, 450-459.
•  Simmons WK, Hamann S, Harenski, CL, Hu, XP, & Barsalou, L. (2008). fMRI evidence for word association and situated simulation in conceptual processing. Journal of Physiology-Paris, 102, 106-119.
•  Harenski CL, Hamann S. (2006). Neural correlates of regulating negative emotions related to moral violations. Neuroimage, 30, 313-324.
•  Hamann S, Harenski CL. (2004). Exploring the brain's interface between personality, mood, and emotion: Theoretical comment on Canli et al. (2004). Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 1134-1136.
•  Hamann S, Herman RA, Nolan CL, & Wallen K. (2004). Men and women differ in amygdala response to visual sexual stimuli. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 411-416.
•  Nolan CL, Moore GJ, Madden R, Farchione T, Bartoi M, Lorch E, Stewart CM, Rosenberg DR. (2002). Prefrontal cortical volume in childhood-onset major depression: Preliminary findings. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59, 173-179.
•  Voyer D, Nolan CL, Voyer S (2000). The relation between experience and spatial performance in men and women. Sex Roles, 43, 891-915.