Last week I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Society for Social Neuroscience! Our work examines how we learn who values us in social interactions and how our brains track these social computations My first S4SN was full of inspiring new research and new connections! #S4SN #SocialNeuro

Very 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...

Rewards bias self-evaluations of ability - Communications Psychology

People often receive rewards for good performance, but what happens when rewards do not reflect ability? Two behavioral studies suggest that rewards can impact how we evaluate our own ability, above and beyond the impact of actual performance.

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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

Begüm G Babür, University of Southern California Dornsife - Your Brain Learns From Rejection - The Academic Minute

On this Student Spotlight during University of Southern California Dornsife Week: What does your brain learn from rejection? Begüm G Babür, Ph. D student in social psychology, analyzes the results. Be...

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New 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...

So 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)

🥳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. 🧵👇

Rejection 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.

Your brain learns from rejection − here’s how it becomes your compass for connection

Rejection can feel physically painful. It also provides a lesson for your brain on whom to connect with and how.

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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...

Your brain learns from rejection − here’s how it becomes your compass for connection

Rejection can feel physically painful. It also provides a lesson for your brain on whom to connect with and how.

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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

A 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/...

🥳 Exciting news! My first paper is out now in @pnas.org This work was a great collaboration between @ycleong.bsky.social , Chelsey Pan, & @leorhackel.bsky.social We examined how the brain learns from experiences of social acceptance and rejection🧵👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...