Berna Güroglu
Professor of Neuroscience of Social Relations
- Name
- Prof.dr. B. Güroglu
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- +31 71 527 2727
- bguroglu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
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- 0000-0002-5418-8737
Berna Güroğlu is full professor in the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.
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“Social interactions form the cornerstone of relationships which are among the most significant social developmental contexts across the life span.”
Berna Güroğlu is full professor in the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit of the Leiden University – Institute for Psychological Research. She received her BA in mathematics at Koç University and MA in developmental psychology at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2008 she received her PhD cum laude in developmental psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen. Güroğlu’s research examines social and cognitive development from a neuroscience perspective, with a special focus on adolescence and young adulthood. She incorporates measures of dyadic peer relationships and social networks (e.g., sociometrics) with neuroimaging methods to investigate the neural correlates of functioning in the context of peer relationships in adolescence. With the aid of a VENI grant from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) she investigated the neural mechanisms of social interactions with peers. She was a leading investigator for her project within the starting impulse grant of the National Research Agenda (NWA) where she examined the anti-bullying programs in the Netherlands and the neural and physiological underpinnings of chronic victimization. Currently she is working on a Gravitation grant GUTS where she examines how social networks of young adults relate to their motivation and goals, also in relation to brain development.
Between 2018-2022 Güroğlu has served as the chair of the Dutch Society for Developmental Psychology (VNOP) that unites developmental psychologists from the Netherlands and Belgium.
For CV, publication list and full details of her research program, see Brain and Development Lab.
Professor of Neuroscience of Social Relations
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Ontwikkelings- & Onderwijspsychologie
- Kellij S., Dobbelaar S., Lodder G.M.A., Veenstra R. & Güroğlu B. (2024), Here Comes Revenge: Peer Victimization Relates to Neural and Behavioral Responses to Social Exclusion, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology : .
- Koele I., van Hoorn J., de Bruijn E.R.A. & Güroglu B. (2023), Neural processing of observed performance-based errors and rewards in the context of friends and unfamiliar peers across adolescence, Neuropsychologia 188: 1-10 (108619).
- Güroğlu B. (2022), The power of friendship: the developmental significance of friendships from a neuroscience perspective, Child Development Perspectives 16(2): 110-117.
- Zanolie C.K.K., Ma I., Bos M.G.N., Schreuders E., Vandenbroucke A.R.E., van Hoorn J., van Duijvenvoorde A.C.K., Wierenga L.M., Crone E.A.M. & Güroglu B. (2022), Understanding the dynamics of the developing adolescent brain through team science, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 16: .
- Wikman P., Moisala M., Ylinen A., Lindblom J., Leikas S., Salmela-Aro K., Lonka K., Güroğlu B. & Alho K (2022), Brain responses to peer feedback in social media are modulated by valence in late adolescence, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 16: 790478.
- Mulder R.H., López‐Vicente M., Cortes Hidalgo A.P.C., Steenkamp L.R., Güroğlu B., Tiemeier H. & Muetzel R.L. (2022), Connecting the dots: social networks in the classroom and white matter connections in the brain: social networks in the classroom and white matter connections in the brain, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 63(12): 1622–1630.
- Kellij S., Lodder G.M.A., Van den Bedem N.P., Güroglu B. & Veenstra R. (2022), The social cognitions of victims of bullying: a systematic review, Adolescent Research Review 7: 287-334.
- Gotlieb R., Hickey-Moody A., Güroglu B., Burnard P., Horn C., Willcox M., Saadatmand M., Linzarini A., Vandenbroucke A.R.E., Albanese D., Bayley A., Blaise M., Blanchet P.-A., Campos A.L., Cavioni V., Cefai C., Collie R.J., Dumontheil I., Emery H., Fuligni A., Glaveanu V., Gibson J., Glozah F.N., Kuo H.-C., Lagi R., Lammes S., Macfarlane A.H., Martinsone B., Mclellan R., Pekrun R., Poulou M., Rey J., Rieffe C., Rodriguez V., Rojas N., Rosenbaum G., Sinha P., Stirling S., Wu J.-J. & Zhou J. (2022), Education and the learning experience in reimagining education: the International Science and Evidence based Education assessment . New Delhi: UNESCO Mahatma Ghandi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development.
- Gotlieb R.J.M., Hickey-Moody A., Güroglu B., Burnard P., Horn C., Willcox M., Saadatmand M., Linzarini A., Vandenbroucke A.R.E., Albanese D.L., Bayley A., Blaise M., Blanchet P., Campos A.L., Cavioni V., Cefai C., Collie R.J., Dumontheil I., Emery H.F., Fuligni A., Glaveanu V., Gibson J., Glozah F.N., Kuo H., Lagi R., Lammes S., Macfarlane A.H., Martinsone B., Mclellan R., Pekrun R., Poulou M., Rey J., Rieffe C.J., Rodriguez V., Rojas N., Rosenbaum G., Sinha P., Wu J. & Zhou J. (2022), The social and emotional foundations of learning. In: , Reimagining education: the international science and evidence based assessment no. 3. New Delhi: UNESCO MGIEP. 182-282.
- Becht A.I., Wierenga L.M., Mills K.L., Meuwese R., Duijvenvoorde A van, Blakemore S.J., Güroğlu B. & Crone E.A. (2021), Beyond the average brain: Individual differences in social brain development are associated with friendship quality, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 16: 292-301.
- Schreuders E., Braams B.R., Crone E.A. & Güroğlu B. (2021), Friendship stability in adolescence is associated with ventral striatum responses to vicarious rewards, Nature Communications 12: 313.
- Vandenbroucke A.R.E., Crone E.A.M, Erp J.B.F. van, Güroglu B., Pol H.H.E., Kogel C.H. de Krabbendam L., Jansen L.M.C. & Brouwer A.M. (2021), Integrating cognitive developmental neuroscience in society: lessons learned from a multidisciplinary research project on education and social safety of youth, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 15: 756640.
- Brandner P., Güroğlu B., Groep S.W. van de, Spaans J.P. & Crone E.A.M (2021), Happy for us not them: differences in neural activation in a vicarious reward task between family and strangers during adolescent development, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 51: 100985.
- Vandenbroucke A.R.E., Crone E.A.M., Erp J.B.F. van, Güroğlu B., Pol H.H.E., Kogel C.H. de, Krabbendam L., Jansen L.M.C. & Brouwer A.M. (2021), Integrating cognitive developmental neuroscience in society: lessons learned from a multidisciplinary research project on education and social safety of youth, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 15: .
- Klootwijk C.L.T., Koele I.J., Hoorn J. van, Güroğlu B. & Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van (2021), Parental support and positive mood buffer adolescents' academic motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic, Journal of Research on Adolescence 31(3): 780-795.
- López-Vicente M., Agcaoglu O., Pérez-Crespo L., Estévez-López F., Heredia-Genestar J.M., Mulder R.H., Flournoy J.C., Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van, Güroğlu B., White T., Calhoun V., Tiemeier H. & Muetzel R.L. (2021), Developmental changes in dynamic functional connectivity from childhood into adolescence, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 15: 724805.
- Güroğlu B. & Veenstra R. (2021), Neural underpinnings of peer experiences and interactions: a review of social neuroscience research, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology 67(4): 416-456.
- Van de Groep S., Meuwese R., Zanolie K., Güroğlu B. & Crone E.A. (2020), Developmental Changes and Individual Differences in Trust and Reciprocity in Adolescence, Journal of Research on Adolescence 30(S1): 192-208.
- Brandner P., Güroğlu B. & Crone E.A. (2020), I am happy for us: neural processing of vicarious joy when winning for parents versus strangers, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 20(6): 1309-1322.
- Eichengreen A., Broekhof E., Güroğlu B. & Rieffe C. (2020), Fairness decisions in children and early adolescents with and without hearing loss, Social Development 29(3): 888-902.
- Güroğlu B. (2020), Adolescent brain in a social world: unravelling the positive power of peers from a neurobehavioral perspective, European Journal of Developmental Psychology 18(4): 471-493.
- Spaans J.P., Will G.J., Van Hoorn J. & Güroğlu B. (2019), Turning a Blind Eye? Punishment of Friends and Unfamiliar Peers After Observed Exclusion in Adolescence, Journal of Research on Adolescence 29(2): 508-522.
- Schreuders E., Smeekens S., Cillessen A.H.N. & Güroglu B. (2019), Friends and foes: Neural correlates of prosocial decisions with peers in adolescence, Neuropsychologia 129: 153-163.
- Muetzel R.L., Mulder R.H., Lamballais S., Cortes Hidalgo A.P., Jansen P., Berna Güroğlu, Vernooiji M.W., Hillegers M., White T., El Marroun H. & Tiemeier H. (2019), Frequent bullying involvement and brain morphology in children, Frontiers in Psychiatry 10: e696.
- Du Plessis M.R., Smeekens S., Cillessen A.H.N., Whittle S. & Güroğlu B. (2019), Bullying the brain? Longitudinal links between childhood peer victimization, cortisol, and adolescent brain structure, Frontiers in Psychology 9: e02706.
- Will G.J., Crone E.A.M., Van Lier P.A.C. & Güroğlu B. (2018), Longitudinal links between childhood peer acceptance and the neural correlates of sharing, Developmental Science 21(1): e12489.
- Schreuders E., Klapwijk E.T., Will G.J. & Güroğlu B. (2018), Friend versus foe: Neural correlates of prosocial decisions for liked and disliked peers, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 18(1): 127-142.
- Schreuders E., Braams B.R., Blankenstein N.E., Peper J.S., Güroğlu B. & Crone E.A. (2018), Contributions of Reward Sensitivity to Ventral Striatum Activity Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood, Child Development 89(3): 797-810.
- Van den Bos W., Crone E.A., Meuwese R. & Güroğlu B. (2018), Social network cohesion in school classes promotes prosocial behavior, PLoS ONE 13(4): e0194656.
- Meuwese R., Braams B.R. & Güroğlu B. (2018), What lies beneath peer acceptance in adolescence? Exploring the role of Nucleus Accumbens responsivity to self-serving and vicarious rewards, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 34: 124-129.
- Klapwijk E.T., Bos W. van den & Güroğlu B. (2017), Neural mechanisms of criminal decision making in adolescence: The roles of executive functioning and empathy. In: Bernasco W., Elffers H. & Gelder J.L. van (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making. Oxford Handbooks Online. New York: Oxford University Press. 246-267.
- Overgaauw S., Rieffe C.J., Broekhof E., Crone E.A.M. & Güroğlu B. (2017), Assessing Empathy across Childhood and Adolescence: Validation of the Empathy Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (EmQue-CA), Frontiers in Psychology 8(870): 1-9.
- Tamnes C.K., Herting M.M., Goddings A.L., Meuwese R., Blakemore S.J., Dahl R.E., Güroğlu B., Raznahan A., Sowell E.R., Crone E.A.M. & Mills K.L. (2017), Development of the cerebral cortex across adolescence: A multisample study of inter-related longitudinal changes in cortical volume, surface area, and thickness, Journal of Neuroscience 37(12): 3402-3412.
- Meuwese R., Cillessen A.H.N. & Güroğlu B. (2017), Friends in high places: a dyadic perspective on peer status as predictor of friendship quality and the mediating role of empathy and prosocial behavior, Social Development 26(3): 503-519.
- Sul S., Güroğlu B., Crone E.A.M. & Chang L.J. (2017), Medial prefrontal cortical thinning mediates shifts in other-regarding preferences during adolescence, Scientific Reports 7: 8510.
- Rieffe C., Broekhof E., Kouwenberg M., Faber J., Tsutsui M.M. & Güroğlu B. (2016), Disentangling proactive and reactive aggression in children using self-report, European Journal of Developmental Psychology 13(4): 439-451.
- Mills K.L., Goddings A.L., Herting M.M., Meuwese R., Blakemore S.J., Crone E.A.M., Dahl R.E., Güroğlu B., Raznahan A., Sowell E.R. & Tamnes C.K. (2016), Structural brain development between childhood and adulthood: Convergence across four longitudinal samples, NeuroImage 141: 273-281.
- Will G.J., Crone E.A.M., Van Lier P.A.C. & Güroğlu B. (2016), Neural correlates of retaliatory and prosocial reactions to social exclusion: Associations with chronic peer rejection, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2016(19): 288-297.
- Will G.J. & Güroğlu B. (2016), A neurocognitive perspective on the development of social decision-making. In: Reuter M. & Montag C. (Eds.), Neuroeconomics. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 293-309.
- Will G.J., Van Lier P.A., Crone E.A. & Güroğlu B. (2016), Chronic childhood peer rejection is associated with heightened neural responses to social exclusion during adolescence, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 44(1): 43-55.
- Van Hoorn J., Van Dijk E., Güroglu B. & Crone E.A.M. (2016), Neural correlates of prosocial peer influence on public goods game donations during adolescence, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11(6): 923-933.
- Will G.J. & Güroğlu B. (2016), A neurocognitive perspective on the development of social decision-making. In: Reuter M. & Montag C. (Eds.), Neuroeconomics. Neuroeconomics, Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. 293-309.
- Zanolie K., De Cremer D., Güroğlu B. & Crone E.A. (2015), Rejection in Bargaining Situations: An Event-Related Potential Study in Adolescents and Adults, PLoS ONE 10(10): e0139953.
- Sellaro R., Güroğlu B., Nitsche M.A., Van den Wildenberg W.P.M., Massaro V., Durieux J., Hommel B. & Colzato L.S. (2015), Increasing the role of belief information in moral judgments by stimulating the right temporoparietal junction, Neuropsychologia 77: 400-408.
- Meuwese R., Crone E.A., De Rooij M. & Güroğlu B. (2015), Development of equity preferences in boys and girls across adolescence, Child Development 86(1): 145-158.
- Will G.J., Crone E.A.M. & Güroglu B. (2015), Acting on social exclusion: neural correlates of punishment and forgiveness of excluders, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 10(2): 209-218.
- Braams B.R., Güroglu B., De Water E., Meuwese R., Koolschijn P.C.M.P., Peper J.S. & Crone E.A.M. (2014), Reward-related neural responses are dependent on the beneficiary, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 9(7): 1030-1037.
- Van den Bos W., Vahl P., Güroglu B., Van Nunspeet F., Colins O., Markus M., Rombouts S.A.R.B., Van der Wee N., Vermeiren R. & Crone E.A.M. (2014), Neural correlates of social decision-making in severely antisocial adolescents, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 9(12): 2059-2066.
- Güroglu B., Van den Bos W. & Crone E.A.M. (2014), Sharing and giving across adolescence: An experimental study examining the development of prosocial behavior, Frontiers in Psychology 5: e291.
- Güroglu B., Will G.J. & Crone E.A.M. (2014), Neural correlates of advantageous and disadvantageous inequity in sharing decisions, PLoS ONE 9(9): e107996.
- Overgaauw S., Güroğlu B., Rieffe C. & Crone E.A. (2014), Behavior and Neural Correlates of Empathy in Adolescents, Developmental Neuroscience 36(3-4): 210-219.
- Braams B.R., Peters S., Peper J.S., Güroğlu B. & Crone E.A. (2014), Gambling for self, friends, and antagonists: differential contributions of affective and social brain regions on adolescent reward processing, NeuroImage 100: 281-289.
- Crone E.A., Will G.J., Overgaauw S. & Güroğlu B. (2014), Social decision-making in childhood and adolescence. In: Lange P.A.M. van, Rockenbach B. & Yamagishi T. (Eds.), Reward and Punishment in Social Dilemmas. New York: Oxford University Press. 161-181.
- Will G.J., Van den Bos W., Crone E.A. & Güroğlu B. (2013), Acting on observed social exclusion: Developmental perspectives on punishment of excluders and compensation of victims, Developmental Psychology 49(12): 2236-2244.
- Lelieveld G.-J., Van Dijk E., Güroğlu B., Van Beest I., Van Kleef G.A., Rombouts S.A.R.B. & Crone E.A. (2013), Behavioral and neural reactions to emotions of others in the distribution of resources, Social Neuroscience 8(1): 52-62.
- Güroğlu B., Will G.J. & Klapwijk E.T. (2013), Some bullies are more equal than others: Peer relationships modulate altruistic punishment of bullies after observing ostracism, International Journal of Developmental Science 7: 13-23.
- Crone E.A. & Güroğlu B. (2013), Development of emotion and social reasoning in adolescence. In: Ochsner K.N. & Kosslyn S. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford Handbooks Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press. chapter 8.
- Radke S., Güroğlu B. & Bruijn E.R.A. de (2012), There’s something about a fair split: Intentionality moderates context-based fairness considerations in social decisionmaking, PLoS ONE 7(2): e31491.
- Gunther Moor B., Op de Macks Z.A., Güroğlu B., Rombouts S.A.R.B., Van der Molen M.W. & Crone E.A. (2012), Neurodevelopmental changes of reading the mind in the eyes, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 7(1): 44-52.
- Gunther Moor B., Güroğlu B., Op de Macks Z.A., Rombouts S.A.R.B., Van der Molen M.W. & Crone E.A. (2012), Social exclusion and punishment of excluders: Neural correlates and developmental trajectories, NEUROIMAGE 59(1): 708-717.
- Van den Bos W., Crone E.A. & Güroğlu B. (2012), Brain function during probabilistic learning in relation to IQ and level of education, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2(S1): S78-S89.
- Overgaauw S., Güroğlu B. & Crone E.A. (2012), Fairness considerations when I know more than you do: Developmental comparisons, Frontiers in Developmental Psychology 3: 1-8.
- Güroğlu B., Cillessen A.H.N., Haselager G.J.T. & Van Lieshout C.F.M. (2012), "Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who your friends will be”: Consistency and change in social competence in adolescent friendships across school transitions, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 29(7): 861-863.
- Op de Macks Z.A., Gunther Moor B., Overgaauw S., Güroğlu B., Dahl R. & Crone E.A. (2011), Testosterone levels correspond with increased ventral striatum activation in response to monetary rewards in adolescents, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 1(4): 506-516.
- Güroğlu B., Van den Bos W., Van Dijk E., Rombouts S.A.R.B. & Crone E.A. (2011), Dissociable brain networks involved indevelopment of fairness considerations: Understanding intentionality behind unfairness, NeuroImage 57(2): 634-641.
- Güroğlu B., Bos W. v.d., Rombouts S.A.R.B. & Crone E.A. (2010), Unfair? It depends: Neural correlates of fairness in social context, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 5(4): 414-423.
- Güroğlu B., Bos W. v.d. & Crone E.A. (2009), Neural correlates of social decision making and relationships: A developmental perspective, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1167: 197-206.
- Bos W. v.d. & Güroğlu B. (2009), The role of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex in social decision making, Journal of Neuroscience 29(24): 7631-7632.
- Van den Bos W., Güroglu B., Van den Bulk B.G., Rombouts S.A.R.B. & Crone E.A.M. (2009), Better than expected or as bad as you thought? The neurocognitive development of probabilistic feedback processing, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 3: e52.
- Güroğlu B., Haselager G.J.T., Lieshout C.F.M. van & Scholte R.H.J. (2009), Antagonists in Mutual Antipathies: A person-oriented approach, Journal of Research on Adolescence 19(1): 35-46.
- Güroğlu B., Bos W. v.d. & Crone E.A. (2009), Fairness considerations: Increasing understanding of intentionality during adolescence, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 104(4): 398-409.
- Güroğlu B., Haselager G.J.T., Lieshout C.F.M. van, Takashima A., Rijpkema M. & Fernández G. (2008), Why are friends special? Implementing a social interaction simulation task to probe the neural correlates of friendship, NeuroImage 39(2): 903-910.
- Güroğlu B., Van Lieshout C.F.M., Haselager G.J.T. & Scholte R.H.J. (2007), Similarity and Complementarity of Behavioral Profiles of Friendship Types and Types of Friends: Friendships and Psychosocial Adjustment, Journal of Research on Adolescence 17(2): 357-386.