Welcome to Dr. Jennifer Beer's Self-Regulation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin!

Self Regulation Lab

Welcome to Jennifer Beer's lab!  Our research focuses on:

    Self and Authenticity

    Emotion, Motivation

    Social Cognition, Person Perception, Impression Formation

    Bridging the Gap Between Neural Activation and Everyday Behavior and Personality

In our lab at the University of Texas at Austin, we're interested in how these processes contribute to appropriate social functioning. For example, how do our motivations to see ourselves and other people in particular ways impact our decisions in social interactions? At the moment, the main areas of our current research include social rejection, authenticity, and the neural basis of socioemotional processing as it relates to everyday social behavior and personality. To address these questions, we use:

    Behavioral methods

    Behavioral observation (e.g., FACS coding)

    Computational modeling

    Self and peer-report

    Neuroscience methods

    Neuroimaging (fMRI, ERP)

    Patients with lesions