CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION / ACADEMIC POSITIONS
| Stanford University | Ph.D. in Psychology Dissertation: Incentive processing in the aging brain Advisors: Brian Knutson & Laura Carstensen | 2005 – present |
| Stanford University | M.A. in Psychology (Affective Science) | 2005 – 2008 |
| Stanford University | Post-Baccalaureate Research Assistant / Lab Manager Life-span Development Lab, Department of Psychology | 2002 – 2005 |
| University of Michigan | B.A. in Psychology with Honors Thesis: Investigating the physiological correlates of emotional maintenance Advisors: Barbara Fredrickson & Patricia Reuter-Lorenz | 1998 – 2002 |
AWARDS / HONORS
| NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship | National Institute on Aging | 2008 | |
| Department of Psychology Teaching Award | Stanford University | 2008 |
| NIA Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2007 | (Samanez-Larkin, et al., 2007) | National Institute on Aging | 2007 |
| Graduate Research Fellowship | Honorable Mention | National Science Foundation | 2006 |
| Summer School in Neuroeconomics Fellowship | NSF / NIA | 2006 |
| W.B. Pillsbury Distinguished Thesis Award | University of Michigan | 2002 | |
| University Honors | University of Michigan | 2002 | |
| Psi Chi Psychology Honors Society Member | University of Michigan | 2001 | |
| Branstrom Prize for Freshman Scholars | (Top 10% of class) | University of Michigan | 1999 |
GRANTS
| Incentive Learning and Decision Making in Younger and Older Adults Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging NIA Center Seed Grant ($40,000) | Co-Investigator | 2007 – 2009 |
| Choosing Not to Choose: Ambiguity Aversion in Younger and Older Adults Center on Advancing Decision Making for Aging NIA Roybal Center Seed Grant ($30,000) | Co-Investigator | 2006 – 2008 |
| Risk-Taking and Decision-Making Over the Life Span Center on Advancing Decision Making for Aging NIA Roybal Center Seed Grant ($40,000) | Co-Investigator | 2005 – 2007 |
PUBLICATIONS
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Carstensen, L.L. (forthcoming) Socioemotional functioning and the aging brain. In J. Decety & J.T. Cacioppo (Eds.) The Handbook of Social Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press. pdf
Knutson, B., Samanez-Larkin, G.R. (forthcoming) Brain, decision, and debt. In R. Brubaker, R.M. Lawless & C. Tabb (Eds.) A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Indebted Global Society. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kwon, Y., Scheibe, S., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Tsai, J.L., Carstensen, L.L. (2009) Replicating the positivity effect in picture memory in Koreans: Evidence for cross-cultural generalizability. Psychology and Aging, 24(3), 748–754. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Robertson, E.R., Mikels, J.A., Carstensen, L.L., Gotlib, I.H. (2009) Selective attention to emotion in the aging brain. Psychology and Aging, 24(3), 519–529. pdf
Ersner-Hershfield, H., Garton, M.T., Ballard, K., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Knutson, K. (2009) Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow: Individual differences in future self-continuity account for saving. Judgment and Decision Making, 4(4), 280–286. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., D’Esposito, M. (2008) Group comparisons: Imaging the aging brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3(3), 290–297. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Hollon, N.G., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2008) Individual differences in insular sensitivity during loss anticipation predict avoidance learning. Psychological Science, 19(4), 320–323. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Gibbs, S.E.B., Khanna, K., Nielsen, L., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2007) Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults. Nature Neuroscience, 10(6), 787–791. pdf sup
Mikels, J.A., Larkin, G.R., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Carstensen, L.L. (2005) Divergent trajectories in the aging mind: Changes in working memory for affective versus visual information with age. Psychology and Aging, 20(4), 542–553. pdf
Mikels, J.A., Fredrickson, B.L., Larkin, G.R., Lindberg, C.M., Maglio, S.J., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A. (2005). Emotional category data on images from the International Affective Picture System. Behavior Research Methods, 37(4), 626–630. pdf
Fredrickson, B.L., Tugade, M.M., Waugh, C.E., Larkin, G.R. (2003) What good are positive emotions in crises?: A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 365–376. pdf
TALKS
Samanez-Larkin, G.R. (2009, November) Mechanisms underlying age differences in financial decision making: Evidence from functional neuroimaging and behavioral task manipulations. Paper presented in J. Mikels (Chair) "Age-Related Changes in Decision Making" Symposium at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta, GA.
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Knutson, B. (2008, November) Financial risk-taking over the adult life span. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Kuhnen, C., Knutson, B. (2008, September) Financial decision-making across the adult life span. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics, Park City, UT.
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Yoo, D., Knutson, B. (2007, November) Incentive-based decision-making in older adults. Paper in G. Samanez-Larkin, T. Sims, E. Peters (Chairs) "The Influence of Age-related Changes in Emotion and Cognition on Decision Making" Symposium at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Larkin, G.R., Gibbs, S., Khanna, K., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2006, November) Incentive processing in the aging brain: Neural responsiveness to anticipated gain and loss. Paper in G. Larkin, J. Mikels, L. Carstensen (Chairs) "The Affective Neuroscience of Aging" Symposium at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX.
Mikels, J.A., Larkin, G.R., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Carstensen, L.L. (2006, November) Age differences in affective working memory: Prefrontal contributions to the positivity effect in older adults. Paper in G. Larkin, J. Mikels, L. Carstensen (Chairs) "The Affective Neuroscience of Aging" Symposium at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX.
Kwon, Y., Larkin, G.R., Tsai, J.L., Carstensen, L.L. (2006, November). Memory for emotional pictures among Korean younger and older adults. Paper in H. Fung, D. Isaacowitz (Chairs) "Socioemotional Selectivity Across Cultures" Symposium at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX.
Mikels, J.A., Larkin, G.R., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Carstensen, L.L. (2004, November). Divergent trajectories in the aging mind: Cognitive decline relative to affective preservation in working memory. Paper presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, D.C.
Fredrickson, B.L., Tugade, M.M., Waugh, C.E., Larkin, G.R. (2002, October). What good are positive emotions in crises?: A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001. Paper in S. Goodwin (Chair) "Social, Political, and Emotional Reactions to the September 11th Attacks" Symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Columbus, OH.
CHAIRED SYMPOSIA
Samanez-Larkin, G.R. (2008, November) The Affective Neuroscience of Aging. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC.Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Sims, T., Peters, E. (2007, November) The Influence of Age-related Changes in Emotion and Cognition on Decision Making. Symposium at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Larkin, G.R., Mikels, J.A., Carstensen, L.L. (2006, November) The Affective Neuroscience of Aging. Symposium at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX.
POSTERS
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Knutson, B. (2009, October) Manipulating decision making in the aging brain. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2009, September) Seeking rewards and avoiding punishments over the adult life span. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics, Evanston, IL.
Thamrongrattanarit, A., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Carstensen, L.L., McClure, S.M. (2009, May) The influence of time perspective on exploration and exploitation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Hollon, N.G., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2007, November) Individual differences in insular sensitivity during loss anticipation predict avoidance learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2007, March) Deactivation of frontal and striatal regions in response to loss outcomes in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the NYAS Affect to Action conference, New York, NY.
Hollon, N.G., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Knutson, B. (2007, March) Activation during anticipation of monetary loss predicts subsequent loss avoidance learning in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the NYAS Affect to Action conference, New York, NY.
Larkin, G.R., Robertson, E.R., Mikels, J.A., Maglio, S.J., Carstensen, L.L., Gotlib, I.H. (2006, November) Selective attention to emotional stimuli in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX.
Gibbs, S.E., Larkin, G.R., Khanna, K., Wimmer, G.E., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2006, June) Neural responsiveness to incentives in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.
Larkin, G.R., Khanna, K., Kuhnen, C., Knutson, B. (2006, April). Risk taking and financial decision making in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the biennial Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Larkin, G.R., Gibbs, S.E., Nielsen, L., Khanna, K., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2006, April). Neural responsiveness to anticipated gain and loss in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Mikels, J.A., Larkin, G.R., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Carstensen, L.L. (2006, April) Age differences in affective working memory: Prefrontal contributions to the positivity effect in older adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Nielsen, H.L., Knutson, B., Larkin, G.R., Carstensen, L.L. (2005, September). Affect dynamics: Tracking trajectories through affective space. Poster presented at the annual Society for Neuroeconomics conference, Kiawah Island, SC.
Mikels, J.A., Larkin, G.R., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Carstensen, L.L. (2004, July). Preservation of online emotional processing capacity in the aging mind. Poster presented at the annual APA Convention, Honolulu, HI.
Larkin, G.R., Mikels, J.A., Lindberg, C., Fredrickson, B.L., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A. (2002, November). Finding categories in dimensions: Behavioral and psychophysiological insights for an integrative account of emotional structure. Poster presented at the NYAS Emotions Inside Out: 130 Years After Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals conference, New York City, NY.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
| NIA Workshop on Opportunities for Advancing Research on Aging, Chicago, IL | Invited Participant | 2008 |
| Mind the Gap! Behavioral Perspectives on Medicare Part D, Berkeley, CA | Invited Participant | 2006 |
| NIA Workshop on Neuroeconomics and Aging, Palo Alto, CA | Invited Participant | 2006 |
| Gerontological Society of America | Member | |
| Society for Neuroscience | Member | |
| Cognitive Neuroscience Society | Member | |
| Association for Psychological Science | Member | |
AD-HOC REVIEWER
Cognition and Emotion
Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
Emotion
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neurobiology of Aging
Neuropsychologia
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
REFERENCES
| Brian Knutson Associate Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience Stanford University (650) 724-2965 | Laura L. Carstensen Professor, Psychology Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor, Public Policy Founding Director, Stanford Center on Longevity Stanford University (650) 723-3102 |
| Ian H. Gotlib Professor, Psychology Senior Associate Dean, Social Sciences Stanford University (650) 723-3102 | Samuel M. McClure Assistant Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience Stanford University (650) 209-4833 |
| Barbara L. Fredrickson Kenan Distinguished Professor, Psychology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (919) 843-0091 | Joseph A. Mikels Assistant Professor, Human Development Cornell University (607) 255-0839 |