***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.