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
The main areas of our current research are the neural basis of
self-serving cognition and perceiving other people in light of new
information.