***Dr. Beer will be accepting 1-2
students for Fall 2009. Applicants should apply to either the Psychology
or Neuroscience programs at UT. If you are interested, please drop a
note with your grades, scores, and a brief summary of previous research
and future research interests to Dr. Beer: beer(at)mail.utexas.edu.***
Welcome to
Jennifer
Beer's lab! Our research focuses on:
Self
Emotion
Social Cognition
In our lab at the University of Texas, we're interested in how these processes contribute to appropriate social
functioning. For example, how do self-perceptions and emotions influence
decisions in social interactions? To address these questions, we use:
Behavioral methods
Behavioral observation (e.g., FACS coding)
Reaction times
Self and peer-report
Neuroscience methods
Neuroimaging (fMRI)
Patients with lesions
Current project include investigations of the neural basis of biased
self-evaluation and emotional influences on cognitive outcomes such as
decision-making, attention, and depth of processing.