Berna Güroğlu is an associate professor (UHD) at the Brain and Development Lab at Leiden University. She received her PhD in Developmental Psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on brain development and the neural processes involved in social and emotional development across childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. She examines the neurocognitive development of social decision-making using various economic exchange paradigms and magnetic resonance imaging techniques. She is particularly interested in the role of peer relationships in social functioning. Her recent work is funded by an NWO Veni grant.

Key publications

• Chronic Childhood Peer Rejection is Associated with Heightened Neural Responses to Social Exclusion During Adolescence. (2016) Will, G.-J., van Lier, P. A. C., Crone, E. A., & Güroğlu, B.
• Development of equity preferences in boys and girls across adolescence. (2015) Meuwese, R., Crone, E.A, de Rooij, M., Güroglu B
• Gambling for self, friends, and antagonists: differential contributions of affective and social brain regions on adolescent reward processing. (2014) Braams, B. R., Peters, S., Peper, J. S., Güroglu, B., Crone, E. A.
• Dissociable brain networks involved in development of fairness considerations: understanding intentionality behind unfairness. (2011) Güroğlu, B., van den Bos, W., Rombouts, S.A.R.B., & Crone, E. A.
• Why are friends special? Implementing a social interaction simulation task to probe the neural correlates of friendship. (2008) Güroğlu, B., Haselager, G. J. T., van Lieshout, C. F. M., Takashima, A., Rijpkema, M., & Fernández, G.

Links

• University webpage
• Personal website