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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Essi Viding is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and focuses on research primarily within the field of psychology. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and genetics.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

Recent publications by Essi Viding cover a range of subjects related to psychiatry, neuroscience, and psychology. Notable papers include:

  • Psychopathy, 2021, published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Social thinning and stress generation after childhood maltreatment: a neurocognitive social transactional model of psychiatric vulnerability, 2022, published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Child Maltreatment, Peer Victimization, and Mental Health: Neurocognitive Perspectives on the Cycle of Victimization, 2021, published in Trauma Violence & Abuse
  • Associations between life-course-persistent antisocial behaviour and brain structure in a population-representative longitudinal birth cohort, 2020, published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Personality neuroscience: An emerging field with bright prospects, 2022, published in Personality Science

Essi Viding frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Eamon McCrory
  • Pasco Fearon
  • Jean-Baptiste Pingault
  • Diana Armbruster-Genc
  • Robert Plomin

The scientist's work has appeared most often in these publication venues:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Essi Viding has been recognized with the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society in 2011. Additionally, they have been named a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Load Theory of Selective Attention and Cognitive Control

    Nilli Lavie;Aleksandra Hirst;Jan W. de Fockert;Essi Viding

  • Evidence for substantial genetic risk for psychopathy in 7-year-olds.

    Essi Viding;R. James R. Blair;Terrie E. Moffitt;Robert Plomin

  • Research Review: The neurobiology and genetics of maltreatment and adversity

    Eamon McCrory;Eamon McCrory;Stephane A. De Brito;Stephane A. De Brito;Essi Viding

  • Antisocial behavior from a developmental psychopathology perspective

    Paul Joseph Frick;E. Viding

  • Feeling, caring, knowing: different types of empathy deficit in boys with psychopathic tendencies and autism spectrum disorder

    Alice P. Jones;Alice P. Jones;Francesca G.E. Happé;Francesca Gilbert;Stephanie Burnett

  • Amygdala Hypoactivity to Fearful Faces in Boys With Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Alice P. Jones;Kristin R. Laurens;Catherine M. Herba;Gareth J. Barker

  • Social Brain Development and the Affective Consequences of Ostracism in Adolescence.

    Catherine Sebastian;Essi Viding;Kipling D. Williams;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  • Research Review: DSM-V conduct disorder: research needs for an evidence base

    Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt;Louise Arseneault;Sara R. Jaffee;Julia Kim-Cohen;Julia Kim-Cohen

  • Neural processing associated with cognitive and affective Theory of Mind in adolescents and adults

    Catherine L. Sebastian;Nathalie M. G. Fontaine;Geoffrey Bird;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  • The self to other model of empathy: Providing a new framework for understanding empathy impairments in psychopathy, autism, and alexithymia

    Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird;Essi Viding

  • Amygdala Response to Preattentive Masked Fear in Children With Conduct Problems: The Role of Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Essi Viding;Catherine L. Sebastian;Mark R. Dadds;Patricia L. Lockwood

  • The impact of childhood maltreatment: a review of neurobiological and genetic factors.

    Eamon McCrory;Eamon McCrory;Stephane A De Brito;Stephane A De Brito;Essi Viding

  • Heightened neural reactivity to threat in child victims of family violence.

    Eamon J. McCrory;Eamon J. McCrory;Stéphane A. De Brito;Stéphane A. De Brito;Catherine L. Sebastian;Andrea Mechelli

  • Size Matters: Increased Grey Matter in Boys with Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits.

    Stéphane A. De Brito;Andrea Mechelli;Marko Wilke;Kristin R. Laurens

  • Annual Research Review: Childhood maltreatment, latent vulnerability and the shift to preventative psychiatry – the contribution of functional brain imaging

    Eamon J. McCrory;Mattia Indi Gerin;Essi Viding

  • The link between child abuse and psychopathology: A review of neurobiological and genetic research

    Eamon McCrory;Eamon McCrory;Eamon McCrory;Stephane A De Brito;Stephane A De Brito;Essi Viding

  • Predictors and outcomes of joint trajectories of callous–unemotional traits and conduct problems in childhood.

    Nathalie M. G. Fontaine;Eamon J. P. McCrory;Michel Boivin;Terrie E. Moffitt

  • Heritability of antisocial behaviour at 9: do callous-unemotional traits matter?

    Essi Viding;Alice P Jones;Paul J Frick;Terrie E Moffitt

  • Disentangling the mental health impact of childhood abuse and neglect.

    Charlotte A.M. Cecil;Essi Viding;Pasco Fearon;Danya Glaser

  • Relationships Between Parental Negativity and Childhood Antisocial Behavior over Time: A Bidirectional Effects Model in a Longitudinal Genetically Informative Design

    Henrik Larsson;Essi Viding;Fruhling V. Rijsdijk;Robert Plomin

  • The contribution of callous-unemotional traits and conduct problems to bullying in early adolescence

    Essi Viding;Elizabeth Simmonds;K.V. Petrides;Norah Frederickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Eamon McCrory
Eamon McCrory University College London
Jean-Baptiste Pingault
Jean-Baptiste Pingault University College London
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London
Patricia L. Lockwood
Patricia L. Lockwood University of Birmingham
Geoffrey Bird
Geoffrey Bird University of Oxford
Edward D. Barker
Edward D. Barker King's College London
Jonathan P. Roiser
Jonathan P. Roiser University College London
Fruhling Rijsdijk
Fruhling Rijsdijk King's College London
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri Duke University

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