Morse Scholar 2016–2019
Current Position
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
MindCore
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About
I am a MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, primarily working with Drs. Adrianna Jenkins and Rebecca Waller. I completed my PhD in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Drs. Seth Pollak and Kristin Shutts.
My B.A. is also in psychology, with honors, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to returning to Madison for graduate school, I received an Intramural Research Training Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, where I worked with Drs. Daniel Pine and Monique Ernst in the Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience.
At the University of Pennsylvania, I co-founded Mind DivE In (Diversity and Equity Initiative in the Mind Sciences). The initiative brings pre-grad students to Penn for a weekend of mentoring, networking, and professional development workshops on topics related to graduate school. We aim to fill mentorship gaps that are more likely to be faced by students from underrepresented groups with a broader objective of improving diversity in fields that are related to the study of the mind. Applications are typically posted in late spring. Resources, including recorded workshops from the event, are available on our website: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/dive/
Education
| 2010 | BA | Psychology | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2013 | MS | Psychology | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2019 | PhD | Psychology | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2020 – Present | Postdoc | MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2016–2019 | Morse Scholar | Major Professor: Seth Pollak, PhD | Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
News
- The pandemic’s psychological scars
March 16, 2022 - Perceptions shaped social behavior during the pandemic
February 17, 2022 - An interview with Rista Plate, PhD
February 12, 2020 - Where do children’s emotions come from?
June 2017
Selected Publications
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Paz, Y., All, K., Kohli, S., Plate, R. C., Viding, E., & Waller, R. (2024). Why Should I? Examining How Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits Relate to Prosocial and Affiliative Behaviors and Motivations. Research on child and adolescent psychopathology, 52(7), 1075–1087. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-024-01170-4
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Plate, R. C., Powell, T., Bedford, R., Smith, T. J., Bamezai, A., Wedderburn, Q., Broussard, A., Soesanto, N., Swetlitz, C., Waller, R., & Wagner, N. J. (2024). Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search. Developmental science, 27(3), e13461. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13461
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Plate, R. C., Jones, C., Steinberg, J., Daley, G., Corbett, N., & Waller, R. (2024). Children’s knowledge and feelings align in response to emotional music. Developmental psychology, 60(2), 265–270. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001572
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Sun, S., Plate, R. C., Jones, C., Rodriguez, Y., Katz, C., Murin, M., Pearson, J., Parish-Morris, J., & Waller, R. (2024). Childhood conduct problems and parent-child talk during social and nonsocial play contexts: a naturalistic home-based experiment. Scientific reports, 14(1), 1018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51656-w
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Plate, R. C., Ham, H., & Jenkins, A. C. (2023). When uncertainty in social contexts increases exploration and decreases obtained rewards. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 152(9), 2463–2478. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001410
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Plate, R. C., Woodard, K., & Pollak, S. D. (2023). Category Flexibility in Emotion Learning. Affective science, 4(4), 722–730. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00192-3
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Leitzke, B. T., Plate, R. C., & Pollak, S. D. (2022). Training reduces error in rating the intensity of emotions. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 22(3), 479–492. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000763