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Karen J. Kelly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Georgian Court University, affiliated with the School of Arts, Sciences, and Education. She holds a PhD in Psychology from Columbia University (2013), with prior degrees from Montclair State University and Rutgers College. Her research focuses on self-awareness, Theory of Mind, and metacognition of emotion, with neurophysiological approaches involving Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and brain mapping.
Educational Background:
- PhD in Psychology, Columbia University, 2013
- MA and MPhil in Psychology, Columbia University, 2009
- MA in Psychology, Montclair State University, 2005
- BA in Religion & Philosophy, Rutgers College, 1997
Research Interests: Her work explores cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying social cognition, deception detection, and emotion recognition. She investigates how brain regions like the motor cortex contribute to perspective-taking and self-other discrimination, often using TMS to study neural pathways.
Publications: Her work spans journals in neuroscience and psychology, with notable contributions on corticospinal excitability during perspective-taking (2021) and metacognition in emotional face recognition (2011). She has also published on evolutionary links between self-awareness and Theory of Mind (2007).
Teaching & Service: She has taught at multiple institutions as a tenured faculty and adjunct, including Montclair State University and Columbia University. Her presentations address topics like faculty use of early warning systems in education (2020) and neurophysiological methods in deception research.
