Dr. rer. nat. Julia Baum
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- Name
- Dr. rer. nat. Julia Baum
- Status
- wiss. Mitarbeiterin
- Julia.Baum (at) hu-berlin.de
- Einrichtung
- Humboldt-Universität → Präsidium → Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Psychologie → Neurokognitive Psychologie
- Sitz
- Rudower Chaussee 18 , Raum 1'204a
- Telefon
- (030) 2093-9442
- Fax
- (030) 2093-4910
- Postanschrift
- Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Education and Academic Positions
2022 Dr. rer. nat. "Emotional content in social misinformation affects mind, brain, and judgments"
2017-2022
Doctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Doctoral scholarship by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2021-2022
Researcher at Science of Intelligence (with TU Berlin) in the project "Knowledge-augmented face perception"
2020
Research visit at Cognitive Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University, US
2016
Scholarship by Humboldt-Research Track for Promotion of Young Researchers in the Excellence Initiative
Master of Science in Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2012
Study abroad in Psychology and Neuroscience at University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
Publications and Pre-prints
Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Negative news dominates fast and slow brain responses and social judgments even after source credibility evaluation. NeuroImage, 244(August), 118572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118572
Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2020). Emotional news affects social judgments independent of source credibility. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. http://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa164
Baum, J., Frömer, R., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2020). Fake news and metacognition: Emotional contents enhance confidence in social judgments based on untrustworthy headlines. Psyarxiv. 10.31234/osf.io/3zr24
Baum, J. & Abdel Rahman, R. (2020). Emotional news affects information processing and social judgments independent of source credibility. biorxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.29.971234
Baum, J., Rabovsky, M., Rose, S. B., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2018). Clear judgments based on unclear evidence: Person evaluation is strongly influenced by untrustworthy gossip. Emotion. 20(2), 248–260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000545
Media Coverage and Science Communication
2021:
- Pressemitteilung HU Berlin "Negative Schlagzeilen wirken auch dann, wenn wir es eigentlich besser wissen"
- PsyPost Blog: "Neurocognitive study finds emotional news impacts social judgments regardless of perceived media credibility"
2020:
- Invited talk and panel discussion at The Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations (CCCUN) on "Countering Misinformation and Fake News in Many Spheres"
- Pressemitteilung HU Berlin "Emotionale Schlagzeilen wirken unabhängig von der Glaubwürdigkeit der Quelle"
- Press release HU Berlin "Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source"
2019:
- Press release HU Berlin "Emotions persist"
- Pressemitteilung HU Berlin "Die Emotionen bleiben"
- Deutschlandfunk "Psychologisches Experiment: Üble Nachrede bleibt im Gehirn"
- PsyPost Blog: "Study: People are strongly influenced by gossip even when it is explicitly untrustworthy"
2016, 2017, 2018: Talk and research demonstration at 'Long night of sciences', HU Berlin
Conferences and Invited Talks
2021
Conference Talks "Beautiful is good, moral is better: Social judgments based on facial attractiveness and affective information" (Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R.):
- PuG Psychology and Brain, Tübingen, Germany in our symposium "Faces in Context: Bottom-up and top-down influences on face perception" with Kirsten Stark and Rasha Abdel Rahman
- ESCAN European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences, Budapest, Hungary
Conference Talk "Negative news contents dominate brain responses and social judgments even after source credibility evaluation" (Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R.):
- ESCAN European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences, Budapest, Hungary
Conference Talk "Fake news and metacognition: Emotional contents enhance confidence in social judgments based on untrustworthy headlines" (Baum, J., Frömer, R., & Abdel Rahman, R.)
- SAS, Society for Affective Science, US
2020
Conference Talk "Negativity prevails in social judgments: The neural consequences of exposure to negative and positive headlines from explicitly distrusted media sources" (Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R.)
- S4SN 2020*, Society for Social Neuroscience, US
Symposium "Faces in Context" (accepted at PuG Conference): Talk "Beautiful is good, moral is better: Social judgments based on facial attractiveness and affective information" (Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R.)
Invited Talk at FeldmanHall Lab, Social & Affective Neuroscience, Brown University, US
2019
Invited Talks:
- Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology Lab, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
- Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, University Potsdam, Germany
Conference Talks "Media source credibility and the impact of affective person-related information" (Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R.):
- TeaP Conference of Experimental Psychologists, London, UK
- PuG Psychology and Brain, Dresden, Germany
2018
Conference Talks "Clear judgments based on unclear evidence: Person evaluation is strongly influenced by untrustworthy gossip" (Baum, J., Rabovsky, M., Rose, S. B., & Abdel Rahman, R.):
- TeaP Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Marburg, Germany
- ESCAN European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences, Leiden, Netherlands
- DGPs Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Frankfurt, Germany
2016
Conference Poster "Person judgement is unaffected by the uncertainty of gossip and rumours" (Baum, J., Rabovsky, M., Rose, S. B., & Abdel Rahman, R.)
- PuG Psychology and Brain, Berlin, Germany
2015
Conference Talk "Emotional responses are unaffected by the uncertainty of rumour and gossip" (Baum, J., Rabovsky, M., Rose, S. B., & Abdel Rahman, R.)
- TeaP Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Hildesheim, Germany
Summer and Winter Schools:
- 2018: Aegina Summer School: New Perspectives and Methods on Social Cognition, Aegina, Greece
- 2018: 2nd Bayes Symposium: Introducing Basic and Advanced Bayesian Modelling, Magdeburg, Germany
- 2018: Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, Potsdam, Germany
- 2018: Winter School Ethics and Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
Fellowships and Awards
2020-2021: Fellowship by Caroline von Humboldt Program of HU Berlin
since 2017: Doctoral candidate of the International Graduate School Berlin School of Mind and Brain
2017-2020: Dissertation Fellowship by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2017: Dissertation Fellowship by Elsa-Neumann-Foundation, state of Berlin
2016-2017: Dissertation Preparation Fellowship by Humboldt-Research Track, Humboldt Graduate School, HU Berlin
2017: Award for best M.Sc. degree of the year 2016, Department of Psychology, HU Berlin
2009-2016: Student Fellowship by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2012: Study-abroad Fellowship by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and exchange program by HU Berlin International
Department Service and Voluntary Work
since 2020 Commission member for admissions to Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2020 Equal Opportunities Commission member, Institute of Psychology, HU Berlin
2017-2020 Doctoral student representative at the Graduate Center Life Sciences, HU Berlin
Mentoring
Mentor for first-generation students at Firstgen HU Berlin
Mentor for first-generation students in Neukölln Berlin (Bürgerstiftung Neukölln)