Rebecca Brewer

Rebecca Brewer is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on social and emotional abilities, particularly the recognition of emotion and identity from faces, and explores how alexithymia and interoception contribute to challenges in conditions like Autism Spectrum Disorder and Eating Disorders. Her work aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing mental health and well-being.

Dr. Brewer has been Principal Investigator on two projects funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Experimental Psychology Society, investigating non-emotional bodily state recognition and creating internal state stimuli databases. These projects ran from 2018 to 2021 and 2018 to 2019, respectively.

Her research outputs (45 total) emphasize interoception’s role in mental health, particularly during the pandemic, and cognitive differences in autism. Recent studies include EEG investigations of face recognition and sex-based cardiac interoception variations.

While no academic awards are listed, her work has been widely shared on platforms like Bluesky and Mendeley, indicating significant academic engagement. She has supervised two research projects but no student names are provided.