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John Herrington is an associate professor of Psychology in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He directs the Emotion and Developmental Laboratory, which focuses on emotion regulation difficulties in childhood, and in particular, among children with autism.
Bio
Dr. Herrington is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He directs the Emotion and Neurodiversity Laboratory, and is Co-Director of the Developmental Neuroimaging Program at CHOP's Center for Autism Research. Dr. Herrington's work focuses on social and emotional information processes in neurotypical and neurodiverse populations, with a particular emphasis on the co-occurrence of anxiety disorders in autism. His research examines the problem of anxiety in ASD across multiple levels of analysis, from neurobiological systems to clinical practice. Dr. Herrington has two active NIH grants focused on the identification of depression and anxiety symptoms using computer vision and computational linguistics.
Education and Training
BA, University of Michigan (Honors Psychology and English Literature), 1997
MPhil, University of Cambridge (Experimental Psychology), 2002
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Clinical Psychology), 2006
Internship, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (Clinical Psychology)
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Titles and Academic Titles
Clinical Psychologist
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Professional Memberships
Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2007-
Society for Neuroscience, 2010-
National Institute of Health, Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Study Section, Ad Hoc Panel Member, 2014-
International Society for Autism Research, Panel on Brain Function Co-chair, 2014-
Professional Awards
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, University of Michigan, 1997
Golden Key National Honor Society. 1997
Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology, University of Michigan, 1997
Rotary Foundation International Scholarship, 1999
Scheiderer Memorial Award for Outstanding Research or Scholarship by a Clinical Psychology Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
Junior Investigator, National Science Foundation Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, 2010