Expertise

Social Neuroscience, Affective Neuroscience, Emotion, Memory

Biography

Chelsea Helion completed her BA in Psychology at Temple University and her PhD in Social Psychology at Cornell University. Following her PhD, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Her research uses both behavioral and neuroimaging methods to examine emotion, memory, and decision-making in adult and developmental populations.

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Selected Publications

• Mitchell, W. J., Stasiak, J., Martinez, S., Cliver, K., Gregory, D., Reisman, S., Schmidt, H., Murty, V.P., & Helion, C. (2025). Emotion regulation strategy use and forecasting in response to dynamic, multimodal stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Ulichney, V., Schmidt, H., & Helion, C. (2024). Perceived relational support is associated with everyday positive, but not negative, affectivity in a US sample. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
• Stasiak, J. E., Mitchell, W. J., Reisman, S. S., Gregory, D. F., Murty, V. P., & Helion, C. (2023). Physiological arousal guides situational appraisals and metacognitive recall for naturalistic experiences. Neuropsychologia, 180, 108467.
• Mitchell, W. J., Tepfer, L. J., Henninger, N. M., Perlman, S. B., Murty, V. P., & Helion, C. (2022). Developmental differences in affective representation between prefrontal and subcortical structures. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(3), 311-322.
• Helion, C., Helzer, E. G., Kim, S., & Pizarro, D. A. (2020). Asymmetric memory for harming versus being harmed. Journal of experimental psychology: general, 149(5), 889.

Courses Taught

• Affective Neuroscience
• Senior Capstone on Artificial Intelligence