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| JENNIFER BEERSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Orbitofrontal cortex and social behavior: integrating self-monitoring and emotion-cognition interactionsJennifer S Beer
University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 18:871-9. 2006..The results highlight the role of the orbitofrontal cortex in the interplay of self-monitoring and emotional processing and suggest avenues for neurorehabilitation of patients with social deficits subsequent to orbitofrontal damage...
The Quadruple Process model approach to examining the neural underpinnings of prejudiceJennifer S Beer
Department of Psychology, A8000 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Neuroimage 43:775-83. 2008..Insula activity was associated with attitudes towards ingroup and outgroup members, as well as detecting appropriate behavior...- Controlling the integration of emotion and cognition: the role of frontal cortex in distinguishing helpful from hurtful emotional informationJennifer S Beer
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA
Psychol Sci 17:448-53. 2006..Together, the two studies suggest that activity in lateral orbitofrontal cortex is associated with evaluating the contextual relevance of emotional information for decision making... - Social cognition: a multi level analysisJennifer S Beer
Department of Psychology and the Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Brain Res 1079:98-105. 2006..The paper concludes by considering a number of challenges for social cognition research including questions of accuracy and the influence of motivation and bias in social cognitive processing... - The regulatory function of self-conscious emotion: insights from patients with orbitofrontal damageJennifer S Beer
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:594-604. 2003..Additionally, deficient behavioral regulation is associated with impairments in interpreting the self-conscious emotions of others... - Neural mechanisms of the testosterone-aggression relation: the role of orbitofrontal cortexPranjal H Mehta
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, 1 University Station A8000, Austin, TX 78712, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 22:2357-68. 2010..The findings suggest that testosterone increases the propensity toward aggression because of reduced activation of the neural circuitry of impulse control and self-regulation... - The neural correlates of direct and reflected self-knowledgeKevin N Ochsner
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Neuroimage 28:797-814. 2005..These results support models suggesting that MPFC mediates meta-cognitive processes that may be recruited for direct and reflected self appraisals depending upon the demands of a specific task... - Neural systems of social comparison and the "above-average" effectJennifer S Beer
Department of Psychology and Imaging Research Center University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USA
Neuroimage 49:2671-9. 2010..These findings are the first to directly examine the neural systems involved in social judgment bias and have implications for the association between frontal lobe dysfunction and poor insight... - Taking a gamble or playing by the rules: dissociable prefrontal systems implicated in probabilistic versus deterministic rule-based decisionsJamil P Bhanji
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USA
Neuroimage 49:1810-9. 2010..Lateral prefrontal cortex plays a key role in implementing deterministic decision rules, ventromedial prefrontal cortex in probabilistic rules, and anterior insula in both... - The default self: feeling good or being right?Jennifer S Beer
University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 11:187-9. 2007.... - Knowing your place: self-perceptions of status in face-to-face groupsCameron Anderson
Walter A Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1900, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:1094-110. 2006..La Voie, 1984). Individuals showed high accuracy in perceiving their status and even erred on the side of being overly humble. Moreover, enhancement in status self-perceptions was associated with lower levels of social acceptance... - Implicit self-theories of shynessJennifer S Beer
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720 1650, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:1009-24. 2002..Together, these studies indicate that implicit self-theories of shyness are important for understanding individual differences among shy people and suggest new avenues for implicit self-theories research... - The impact of orbital prefrontal cortex damage on emotional activation to unanticipated and anticipated acoustic startle stimuliNicole A Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, P O Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 4:307-16. 2004..Thus, orbitofrontal damage may compromise the ability to anticipate physiologically the onset of aversive stimuli, despite intact or enhanced emotional responses when such stimuli occur unexpectedly... - Perceiving others' personalities: examining the dimensionality, assumed similarity to the self, and stability of perceiver effectsSanjay Srivastava
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1227, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:520-34. 2010..Implications for the interpretation of perceiver effects and for research on personality assessment and psychopathology are discussed... - Special issue: Multiple perspectives on the psychological and neural bases of social cognitionJennifer S Beer
Brain Res 1079:1-3. 2006 - Prefrontal involvement in the regulation of emotion: convergence of rat and human studiesGregory J Quirk
Department of Physiology, Ponce School of Medicine, P.O. Box 7004, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00732
Curr Opin Neurobiol 16:723-7. 2006..The overlap in circuitry is consistent with a common mechanism, and points toward future experiments designed to bridge human and rodent models of emotion regulation... - How self-evaluations relate to being liked by others: integrating sociometer and attachment perspectivesSanjay Srivastava
University of Oregon, Eugene, 97403, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:966-77. 2005..e., potentiated the sociometer). These findings have several implications for research on self-evaluation, adult attachment theory, and the importance of integrating interpersonal processes and individual differences...
Research Grants
- Human Orbital Prefrontal FunctionJENNIFER BEER; Fiscal Year: 2003..e., presence vs. absence of punishment and reward). The most fruitful next step is to conduct functional neuroimaging studies of orbital PFC activity in relation to emotional influences on decisions and judgments ..
- Regulating Approach Impulses:Implications of Orbitofrontal Function for AddictionJENNIFER BEER; Fiscal Year: 2005..Ultimately, this reseach program will have important implications for developing both cognitive and biological treatments for addiction. ..