Frederike Beyer

Dr Frederike Beyer is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Interim Head of the Department of Psychology at Queen Mary University of London. She is affiliated with the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences and the Centre for Brain and Behaviour. Her research focuses on social cognition, stress, aggression, sense of agency, and reward processing, employing methods such as EEG, fMRI, and behavioral paradigms. Key areas include stress's impact on social behaviors like trust and aggression, and how motor actions influence reward processing.

Her research interests explore how social contexts modulate neural processes, particularly under stress. She investigates how physical activity might mitigate social stress and how agency perceptions shift during human-robot interactions. Grants include studies on instrumental control in Pavlovian conditioning (£19,500, Royal Society) and temperamental influences on social cognition under stress (£31,969, Bial Foundation).

Dr Beyer advises PhD students Simrandeep Cheema and Yuzhu Zhang. Her work bridges cognitive and social neuroscience, addressing questions about neural mechanisms underlying human behavior in social settings.