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Overview

Kent A. Kiehl is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a significant focus on clinical psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

The scientist's main research topics cover psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, crime patterns and interventions, personality disorders and psychopathology, criminal justice and corrections analysis, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, deception detection and forensic psychology, as well as functional brain connectivity studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kent A. Kiehl include Carla L. Harenski, J. Michael Maurer, Nathaniel E. Anderson, Bethany G. Edwards, and Aparna R. Gullapalli.

Publications have appeared in various venues, notably including:

  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Criminal Justice and Behavior
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Kent A. Kiehl are:

  • Reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in the assessment of risk for institutional violence: A cautionary note on DeMatteo et al. (2020), 2020, Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Psychopathy is associated with fear-specific reductions in neural activity during affective perspective-taking, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Sacrificing reward to avoid threat: Characterizing PTSD in the context of a trauma-related approach-avoidance conflict task., 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • The prevalence, characteristics, and psychiatric correlates of traumatic brain injury in incarcerated individuals: an examination in two independent samples, 2021, Brain Injury
  • Neural responses to morally laden interactions in female inmates with psychopathy, 2021, NeuroImage Clinical

Best Publications

  • Assessing psychopathic attributes in a noninstitutionalized population.

    Michael R. Levenson;Kent A. Kiehl;Cory M. Fitzpatrick

  • A Baseline for the Multivariate Comparison of Resting-State Networks

    Elena A. Allen;Erik B. Erhardt;Eswar Damaraju;William Gruner;William Gruner

  • Aberrant "default mode" functional connectivity in schizophrenia.

    Abigail G. Garrity;Godfrey D. Pearlson;Kristen McKiernan;Dan Lloyd

  • Limbic abnormalities in affective processing by criminal psychopaths as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Kent A Kiehl;Andra M Smith;Robert D Hare;Adrianna Mendrek

  • Error processing and the rostral anterior cingulate: An event-related fMRI study

    Kent A. Kiehl;Peter F. Liddle;Joseph B. Hopfinger

  • A cognitive neuroscience perspective on psychopathy : Evidence for paralimbic system dysfunction

    Kent A. Kiehl

  • Event-related fMRI study of response inhibition.

    Peter F. Liddle;Kent A. Kiehl;Andra M. Smith

  • Orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction in abstinent cocaine abusers performing a decision-making task

    Karen I. Bolla;Dana A. Eldreth;Edythe D. London;Kent A. Kiehl;Kent A. Kiehl

  • A method for evaluating dynamic functional network connectivity and task-modulation: application to schizophrenia

    Ünal Sakoğlu;Godfrey D. Pearlson;Kent A. Kiehl;Kent A. Kiehl;Y. Michelle Wang

  • Modulation of Temporally Coherent Brain Networks Estimated Using ICA at Rest and During Cognitive Tasks

    Vince D. Calhoun;Kent A. Kiehl;Godfrey D. Pearlson

  • An fMRI study of affective perspective taking in individuals with psychopathy: imagining another in pain does not evoke empathy.

    Jean Decety;Chenyi Chen;Carla L. Harenski;Kent A. Kiehl

  • Neural sources involved in auditory target detection and novelty processing: An event-related fMRI study

    Kent A. Kiehl;Kristin R. Laurens;Timothy L. Duty;Bruce B. Forster

  • Reduced Prefrontal Connectivity in Psychopathy

    Julian C. Motzkin;Joseph P. Newman;Kent A. Kiehl;Michael Koenigs

  • Dysfunctional action monitoring hyperactivates frontal–striatal circuits in obsessive–compulsive disorder: an event-related fMRI study

    Nicholas Maltby;David F. Tolin;David F. Tolin;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Timothy M. O'Keefe

  • Temporal lobe and “default” hemodynamic brain modes discriminate between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Vince D. Calhoun;Paul K. Maciejewski;Godfrey D. Pearlson;Kent A. Kiehl

  • Neuroprediction of future rearrest

    Eyal Aharoni;Gina M. Vincent;Carla L. Harenski;Vince D. Calhoun

  • Infection, incest, and iniquity: Investigating the neural correlates of disgust and morality

    Jana Schaich Borg;Debra Lieberman;Kent A. Kiehl;Kent A. Kiehl

  • Killer whale (Orcinus orca) hearing: auditory brainstem response and behavioral audiograms.

    Michael D. Szymanski;David E. Bain;Kent Kiehl;Scott Pennington

  • Prefrontal cortical dysfunction in abstinent cocaine abusers

    Karen Bolla;Monique Ernst;Kent Kiehl;Maria Mouratidis

  • Aberrant neural processing of moral violations in criminal psychopaths.

    Carla L. Harenski;Keith A. Harenski;Matthew S. Shane;Kent A. Kiehl

  • An event-related potential investigation of response inhibition in schizophrenia and psychopathy

    Kent A Kiehl;Andra M Smith;Robert D Hare;Peter F Liddle

Frequent Co-Authors

Vince D. Calhoun
Vince D. Calhoun Georgia State University
Godfrey D. Pearlson
Godfrey D. Pearlson Yale University
Kristin R. Laurens
Kristin R. Laurens Queensland University of Technology
Michael Koenigs
Michael Koenigs University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago
Robert D. Hare
Robert D. Hare University of British Columbia
Michael C. Stevens
Michael C. Stevens Yale University
Joseph P. Newman
Joseph P. Newman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco

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