Gijs Bijlstra
@gijsbijlstra.bsky.social
Social Psychologist | Radboud University | Behavioural Science Institute | RaFD | Radboud Social Cognition Lab
Across 3 studies, we found that instrumental learning influences social biases in emotion recognition: associating rewards with outgroup faces changed how people perceived emotions.
These findings suggest that learning can help retrain social perception and provide insights for reducing biases.
These findings suggest that learning can help retrain social perception and provide insights for reducing biases.
November 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Across 3 studies, we found that instrumental learning influences social biases in emotion recognition: associating rewards with outgroup faces changed how people perceived emotions.
These findings suggest that learning can help retrain social perception and provide insights for reducing biases.
These findings suggest that learning can help retrain social perception and provide insights for reducing biases.
In a series of studies, participants learned to associate actions and rewards with faces from different social groups.
This instrumental learning paradigm allowed us to test whether learning through reward could reshape how emotions are recognized.
This instrumental learning paradigm allowed us to test whether learning through reward could reshape how emotions are recognized.
November 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
In a series of studies, participants learned to associate actions and rewards with faces from different social groups.
This instrumental learning paradigm allowed us to test whether learning through reward could reshape how emotions are recognized.
This instrumental learning paradigm allowed us to test whether learning through reward could reshape how emotions are recognized.
There were no databases available with these two emotions for both social groups. With the help of Jeroen Derks (MPI, Nijmegen), we created computer-generated faces for our experiment. See below for some examples—in total, we created 4 individuals per group.
June 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There were no databases available with these two emotions for both social groups. With the help of Jeroen Derks (MPI, Nijmegen), we created computer-generated faces for our experiment. See below for some examples—in total, we created 4 individuals per group.
Several Radboud Social Cognition Lab members presented their research at the ASPO conference last week in Groningen. Seeing Afreen Khalid, Joël Hendrix, and Tjits van Lent present their wonderful research projects made me a very proud supervisor. 😊
December 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Several Radboud Social Cognition Lab members presented their research at the ASPO conference last week in Groningen. Seeing Afreen Khalid, Joël Hendrix, and Tjits van Lent present their wonderful research projects made me a very proud supervisor. 😊
Happy to be at ASPO 2024 in Groningen! The Dutch social psychology conference 🙂
December 12, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Happy to be at ASPO 2024 in Groningen! The Dutch social psychology conference 🙂