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Karen Rudolph

Professor

Primary Affiliation

Brain Connectivity and Networks

Affiliations

Status Affiliate Faculty

Home Department of Psychology

Phone 333-8624

Email krudolph@illinois.edu

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  • Biography

    Karen Rudolph is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an affiliate faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and an affiliate at the Center for Social & Behavioral Science at UIUC.

    She received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed a clinical internship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital (now the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior) at UCLA before joining the faculty at UIUC. She served as co-editor of the "Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology" and an associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. She has served as a PI and co-PI on several large-scale longitudinal studies funded by the National Institutes of Health.

  • Honors
    • Robert B. Cairns Carolina Consortium on Human Development Capstone Award (2019)
    • Invited Address for the Society for Research on Adolescence (2018)
    • Arnold O. Beckman Award, University of Illinois (2008)
    • Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois (2004)
    • James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award (2002-2003)
    • William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Award (1998-2003)
    • Arnold O. Beckman Award, University of Illinois (1996)
  • Research

    The overall goal of Rudolph’s research is to identify risk and protective processes that amplify or attenuate vulnerability to psychopathology across development, with a focus on adolescence as a stage of particular sensitivity.

    Her research uses an interdisciplinary, multi-level, multi-method approach that bridges across developmental and clinical psychology and social affective neuroscience. In particular, her research considers how personal attributes of youth (e.g., gender, temperament, emotion regulation, social motivation, coping, neuroendocrine profiles, neural processing), development (e.g., puberty, social transitions), and contexts (e.g., early adversity, stressors, family and peer relationships) intersect to contribute to the development of psychopathology, particularly depression and suicide. This research aims to understand both the origins and consequences of individual differences in risk.

    Her lab uses a variety of methodological approaches, including longitudinal survey-based research, interviews, behavior observations, experimental tasks, hormone assessments, and fMRI. Recent work also involves the development of a prevention program for adolescent depression.

  • 2022

    • Rudolph, K. D., & Dodson, J. (2022). Gender differences in friendship values: Intensification at adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence, 42, 586–607.
    • Skymba, H. V., Joyce, C., Telzer, E. H., & Rudolph, K. D. (2022). Peer adversity predicts interpersonal needs in adolescent girls. Journal of Research on Adolescence. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12741

    2021

    • Calhoun, C. D., Patterson, M. W., Bendezu, J. J., Helms, S. W., Owens, S. A., Rudolph, K. D., Hastings, P. D., & Prinstein, M. J. (2021). Linking post-stressor interpersonal processes and adolescent girls’ close friendships with acute HPA stress responses. Journal of Adolescence, 92, 10-19.
    • Kennedy, B. V., Hansen, J. L., Buser, N. J., van den Bos, W., Rudolph, K. D., Davidson, R. J., & Pollak, S. D. (2021). Accumbofrontal tract integrity is related to early life adversity and feedback learning. Neuropsychopharmacology, 46, 2288-2294.
    • Rudolph, K. D. (2021). Understanding peer relationships during childhood and adolescence through the lens of social motivation. Advances in Motivation Science, 8, 105-151.
    • Rudolph, K. D., Davis, M. M., Skymba, H. V., Modi, H. H., & Telzer, E. H. (2021). Social experience calibrates neural sensitivity to social feedback during adolescence: A functional connectivity approach. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 47. Doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100903
    • Rudolph, K. D., Skymba, H. V., Modi, H. H., Davis, M. M., Sze, W. Y., Rosswurm, C. P., & Telzer, E. H. (2021). How does peer adversity “get inside the brain?“ Adolescent girls‘ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, 481-495. doi:10.1002/dev.22022.

    2020

    • Modi, H. H., Davis, M. M., Kim, Y., Telzer, E. H., & Rudolph, K. D. (2020). Maternal antecedents of adolescent neural regulation of emotion. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 30, 581-598.
    • Rudolph, K. D., Davis, M. M., Modi, H. H., Fowler, C., Kim, Y., & Telzer, E. H. (2020). Differential susceptibility to parenting in adolescent girls: Moderation by neural sensitivity to social cues. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 30, 177-191.
    • Rudolph, K. D., Monti, J. D., Modi, H., Sze, W., & Troop-Gordon, W. (2020). Protecting youth against the adverse effects of peer victimization: Why do parents matter? Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 48, 163-176. 10.1007/s10802-019-00576-9
    • Rudolph, K. D., Monti, J., Flynn, M., & Goodwin, G. (2020). The maladaptive social consequences of emotional clarity deficits in early adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence, 40, 1226-1243. doi: 10.1177/0272431620912490
    • Slavich, G. M., Giletta, M., Helms, S. W., Hastings, P. D., Rudolph, K. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2020). Interpersonal life stress, inflammation, and risk for depression in adolescence: Testing social signal transduction theory of depression. Depression and Anxiety, 37, 179-193.
    • van Dammen, L., Ruttle, P., Shirtcliff, E., Hanson, J. Rudolph, K. D., & Pollak, S. (2020). The role of cortisol in the link between different types of childhood adversity and BMI in adolescence. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82.

    2019

    • Davis, M. M., Miernicki, M. E., Telzer, E. H., & Rudolph, K. D. (2019). The contribution of childhood negative emotionality and cognitive control to anxiety-linked neural dysregulation of emotion in adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 515-527.
    • Davis, M. M., Modi, H. H., & Rudolph, K. D. (2019). Sex, gender, and emotion. In S. Hupp & J. Jewell (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development (pp. 1-12). London: Wiley-Blackwell.
    • Eisenlohr-Moul, T., Miller, A. B., Giletta, M., Hastings, P. D, Rudolph, K. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2019). HPA axis response and psychosocial stress as interactive predictors of suicidal ideation and behavior in adolescent females: A multilevel diathesis-stress framework. Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, 2564-2571.
    • Massing-Shaffer, M., Helms, S., Rudolph, K. D., Slavich, G., Giletta, M., Hastings, P. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2019). Preliminary associations among relational victimization, targeted rejection, and suicidality in adolescence: A prospective study Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 48, 288-295.
    • Owens, S. A., Helms, S. W., Hastings, P. D., Rudolph, K. D., & Prinstein, M. J. (2019). Interpersonal stress severity longitudinally predicts adolescent girls’ depressive symptoms: The moderating role of subjective and HPA axis stress responses. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 895-905.
    • Telzer, E. H., Fowler, C. H., Davis, M. M., & Rudolph, K. D. (2019). Hungry for inclusion: Exposure to peer victimization and heightened social monitoring in adolescent girls. Development and Psychopathology, 32, 1495-1508. doi:10.1017/S0954579419001433

    2018

    • Cohen, J. R., Andrews, A. M., Davis, M. M., & Rudolph, K. D. (2018). Anxiety and depression during childhood and adolescence: Testing theoretical models of continuity and discontinuity. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46, 1295-1308.
    • Giletta, M., Slavich, G. M., Rudolph, K. D., Hastings, P. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2018). Peer victimization predicts heightened inflammatory reactivity to social stress in cognitively vulnerable adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59, 129-139.
    • Miller, A. B., Linthicum, K. P., Helms, S., Giletta, M., Rudolph, K. D., Hastings, P. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2018). Reciprocal associations between adolescent girls’ chronic interpersonal stress and nonsuicidal self-injury among adolescent girls: A multi-wave, prospective investigation. Journal of Adolescent Health, 63, 694-700.
    • Nelemans, S. A., Hale III, W. W., Branje, S. J. T., Meeus, W. H. J., & Rudolph, K. D. (2018). Individual differences in trajectories of anxiety from grades 2 to 8: Impact of the middle school transition. Development and Psychopathology, 30, 1487-1501.
    • Rudolph, K. D., Monti, J. D., & Flynn, M. (2018). Stress reactivity as a pathway from attentional control deficits in everyday life to depressive symptoms in adolescent girls. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46, 613-624.
    • Rudolph, K. D., Troop-Gordon, W., Modi, H. H., & Granger, D. A. (2018). An exploratory analysis of the joint contribution of HPA axis regulation and motivation to early adolescent depressive symptoms. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 303-316.
    • Telzer, E. H., Miernicki, M. E., & Rudolph, K. D. (2018). Chronic peer victimization heightens neural sensitivity to risk taking. Development and Psychopathology, 30, 13-26.

    2017

    • • Monti, J. D., Miernicki, M. E., & Rudolph, K. D. (2017). Rumination about a novel social stressor mediates the association between victimization and depressive symptoms. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 48, 25-32.
    • Fowler, C. H., Miernicki, M. E., Rudolph, K. D., & Telzer, E. H. (2017). Disrupted amygdala-prefrontal connectivity during emotion regulation links stress-reactive rumination and adolescent depressive symptoms. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 99-106.
    • Giletta, M., Hastings, P. D., Rudolph, K. D., Bauer, D. J., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2017). Suicide ideation among high-risk adolescent females: Examining the interplay between parasympathetic regulation and friendship support. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1161-1175.
    • Hanson, J. L., van den Bos, W., Roeber, B. J., Rudolph, K. D., Davidson, R. J., & Pollak, S. D. (2017). Early adversity and learning: Implications for typical and atypical behavioral development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, 770-778. Doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12694
    • Kochel, K. P., Bagwell, C. L., Ladd, G. W., Rudolph, K. D. (2017). Do positive peer relations mitigate transactions between depressive symptoms and peer victimization in adolescence? Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 51, 44-54.
    • Miller, A. B., Eisenlohr-Moul, T., Giletta, M., Hastings, P. D., Rudolph, K. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2017). A within-person approach to risk for suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior: Examining the roles of depression, stress, and abuse exposure. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85, 712-722. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000210
    • Monti, J. D., & Rudolph, K. D. (2017). Maternal depression and trajectories of adolescent depression: The role of stress responses in youth risk and resilience. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1413-1429.
    • Rudolph, K. D. (2017). Advances in conceptual and empirical approaches to understanding the interpersonal context of youth depression: Commentary. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
    • Rudolph, K. D., Davis, M. M., & Monti, J. D. (2017). Cognition-emotion interaction as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms. Developmental Psychology, 53, 2377-2383.
    • Sugimura, N., Berry, D. J., Troop-Gordon, W., & Rudolph, K. D. (2017). Early social behaviors and the trajectory of peer victimization across the school years. Developmental Psychology, 53, 1447-1461.
    • Troop-Gordon, W., Sugimura, N., & Rudolph, K. D. (2017). Responses to interpersonal stress: Normative changes across childhood and the impact of peer victimization. Child Development, 88, 640-657. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12617