Begüm Babür
Social Psych PhD Student @USC | interested in how we learn about others in interactions and form social connections 👥🧠
- Reposted by Begüm BabürVery excited to share that my first paper, with Peter Mende-Siedlecki and @leorhackel.bsky.social, is out now in @commspsychol.nature.com! ☺️ Can getting more rewards make you feel more skilled, even if your performance doesn't change? www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Excited to be featured on #TheAcademicMinute during @dornsife.usc.edu Scholars Week! I discuss our research on how our brains learns from social rejection. Check it out if you’ve got a minute👇 bit.ly/BBaburAM
- Reposted by Begüm BabürNew paper out in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology! 🎉 How do we figure out who will accept or reject us in a new group? We show that people generalize relational value across friendship ties—forming a network gradient of approach & avoidance. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lq3x51f8w...
- Reposted by Begüm BabürSo excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in @commspsychol.nature.com 🎉 In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions. www.nature.com/articles/s44... (1/4)
- Reposted by Begüm Babür🥳Excited to share that our new paper is live at Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social! We show that Pavlovian learning can grow empathy for another person. 🧵👇
- Reposted by Begüm BabürRejection can be emotionally painful, but it can also teach us something. A social psychology researcher shows how rejection can serve as a learning signal – shaping how people navigate relationships and decide whom to attempt to connect with in the future.
- I wrote about our new research on how the brain learns from social rejection — and why that matters for connection 👉 theconversation.com/your-brain-l...
- That’s a wrap on #SANS2025! Had a great time presenting my work on how our brains learn from rejection & how loneliness relates to patterns in our daily language
- Reposted by Begüm BabürA secondary but neat finding in our new work: We find neural evidence for rewards biasing social perception. We’ve previously found that rewards lead people to see others in a more positive light. We’ve argued this reflects a kind of affect-as-information… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
