Dr Frederike Beyer
Senior Lecturer
Interim Head of The Department of Psychology
School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Social Cognition, Stress, Aggression, Sense of Agency, Reward Processing
Interests
My work uses methods of EEG, fMRI, psychophysiology and novel behavioural paradigms to address questions in the field of social and cognitive neuroscience.
Social cognition and social behaviour under stress: how does stress affect interpersonal trust, perspective taking, affiliation and aggression? Does physical activity help regulate social stress, acutely and in the long term?
Motor control and reward processing: how does performing an action affect the neural processing of monetary and social rewards? Does a sense of control influence reward learning?
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Brain and Behaviour
2024
Fragile mentalizing: lack of behavioral and neural markers of social cognition in an established social perspective taking task when combined with stress inductionBeyer F, Cheema S, Augustin C, Göttlich M and Krämer UM
Eneuro,
Society For Neuroscience 26-11-2024 
Performing a Motor Action Enhances Social Reward Processing and Modulates the Neural Processing of Predictive CuesDi Bernardi Luft C, Atchoum I and
Beyer F Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Mit Press vol. 36 (9), 1771-1783.
01-09-20242022
The value of an action: Impact of motor behaviour on outcome processing and stimulus preferenceBikute K, Di Bernardi Luft C and
Beyer F European Journal of Neuroscience,
Wiley 16-09-2022 2021
Structural covariance of amygdala subregions is associated with trait aggression and endogenous testosterone in healthy individualsGöttlich M, Buades-Rotger M, Wiechert J,
Beyer F and Krämer UM
Neuropsychologia,
Elsevier vol. 165
09-12-2021 The obedient mind and the volitional brain: A neural basis for preserved sense of agency and sense of responsibility under coercionCaspar EA,
Beyer F, Cleeremans A and Haggard P
Plos One,
Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 16 (10 October)
28-10-2021 Regulating interpersonal stress: the link between heart-rate variability, physical exercise and social perspective taking under stressKähkönen JE, Krämer UM, Buades-Rotger M and
Beyer F Stress: The International Journal on The Biology of Stress,
Taylor & Francis 05-04-2021 2020
Neural basis of shame and guilt experience in women with borderline personality disorderGöttlich M, Westermair AL,
Beyer F, Bußmann ML, Schweiger U and Krämer UM
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience: Official Organ of The German Society For Biological Psychiatry,
Springer (Part of Springer Nature) 07-05-2020 How social contexts affect cognition: mentalizing interferes with sense of agency during voluntary actionSidarus N, Travers E, Haggard P and
Beyer F Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
Elsevier 29-04-2020 2019
Attribution of intentional agency towards robots reduces one’s own sense of agency.Ciardo F,
Beyer F, De Tommaso D and Wykowska A
Cognition,
Elsevier 29-10-2019 2018
Reduced Sense of Agency in Human-Robot interactionCiardo F, De Tommaso T,
BEYER F and Wykowska A
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
Springer Verlag 27-11-2018 Losing Control in Social Situations: How the Presence of Others Affects Neural Processes Related to Sense of AgencyBeyer F, Sidarus N, Fleming S and Haggard P
Eneuro,
Society For Neuroscience vol. 5 (1), eneuro.0336-eneu17.2018.
01-01-2018 2017
Hit or Run: Exploring Aggressive and Avoidant Reactions to Interpersonal Provocation Using a Novel Fight-or-Escape Paradigm (FOE)Beyer F, Buades-Rotger M, Claes M and Krämer UM
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience,
Frontiers vol. 11
17-10-2017 Anger-sensitive networks: characterizing neural systems recruited during aggressive social interactions using data-driven analysisBeyer F, Krämer UM and Beckmann CF
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,
Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 12 (11), 1711-1719.
04-10-2017 2016
Endogenous testosterone is associated with lower amygdala reactivity to angry faces and reduced aggressive behavior in healthy young womenBuades-Rotger M, Engelke C,
Beyer F, Keevil BG, Brabant G and Krämer UM
Scientific Reports,
Springer Nature vol. 6 (1)
07-12-2016 Beyond self-serving bias: diffusion of responsibility reduces sense of agency and outcome monitoringBeyer F, Sidarus N, Bonicalzi S and Haggard P
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,
Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 12 (1), 138-145.
01-12-2016 2014
Orbitofrontal Cortex Reactivity to Angry Facial Expression in a Social Interaction Correlates with Aggressive BehaviorBeyer F, Münte TF, Göttlich M and Krämer UM
Cerebral Cortex,
Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 25 (9), 3057-3063.
19-05-2014
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Brain and Behaviour
The effect of instrumental control on Pavlovian conditioningFrederike Beyer£19,500
Royal Society27-03-2019 - 26-03-2020 Temperamental influences on social cognition under stressFrederike Beyer£31,969
Fundacao Bial (Bial Foundation)01-02-2019 - 31-05-2021
