Anna Knes

Graduate Research Assistant

psychology; legal decision-making; pretrial reform; racial disparities

Anna Knes is a first-year PhD student working as a Graduate Research Assistant with Dr. Evan Lowder in the Early Justice Strategies Lab. She received an M.S. in Forensic Science from the University of Amsterdam and an MA in Neuroscience & Behavior from Wesleyan University. Her research interests focus on human behavior and decision making within the criminal justice system.

Expanded Publication List

From Wesleyan University

Knes, A.S., Freeland, C.M., Robinson, M.J.F. (2021). Optogenetic Stimulation of the Central Amygdala using Channelrhodopsin in R. Dempski (Ed.), Channelrhodopsin: Methods and Protocols. New York, NY: Springer.
Freeland, C.M., Knes, A.S., Robinson, M.J.F. (2020).Translating Concepts of Risky and Loss in Rodent Models of Gambling and its Limitations for Clinical Applications. In Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
Robinson, M.J.F., Caplan, K. A., Knes, A.S., Rodriguez-Cruz, H.O., Clibanoff, C., Freeland, C.M. (2020). Reward uncertainty attributes incentive value to reward proximal cues, while amphetamine sensitization reverts attention to more predictive reward distal cues. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 97: 109795.
Robinson, M.J.F., Clibanoff, C., Freeland, C.M., Knes, A.S., Cote, J.R., Russell, T.I. (2019). Distinguishing between predictive and incentive value of uncertain gambling-like cues in a Pavlovian autoshaping task. Behavioural Brain Research. 371(3): 111791.

Education

MS Forensic Science, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

MA Neuroscience and Behavior - Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut, USA)

BA Neuroscience and Behavior & Psychology - Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut, USA)