Khatereh completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and has extensive experience in the field of social cognition. Over the years, she has conducted research exploring mechanisms involved in the way individuals emotionally feel, and make decisions in social interactions. To address questions in this domain, she employs a multidisciplinary approach, integrating behavioral studies, electrophysiological and physiological measures, as well as computational modeling. Currently, her research interests center on the role of empathy in moral decision-making.

Selected publications:

Haromi, M. E., Golbabaei, S., & Borhani, K. (2025). Deconstructing Temporal Stages of Prosocial and Antisocial Risky Decision-making in Adolescence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02294

Golbabaei, S., & Borhani, K. (2024). Nearsighted empathy: exploring the effect of empathy on distance perception, with eye movements as modulators. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 25146. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76731-0

Ghandchi, A., Golbabaei, S., & Borhani, K. (2024). Effects of two different social exclusion paradigms on ambiguous facial emotion recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 38(3), 296-314. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2285862

Mousavi, S. Z., Borhani, K., Gharibzadeh, S., & Bakouie, F. (2024). Looking at self-control development in adolescence through dynamic systems concepts: An agent-based modeling approach. Developmental Review, 71, 101116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2023.101116

Shahbazi, G., Samani, H., Mandalaywala, T. M., Borhani, K., & Davoodi, T. (2024). The development of social essentialist reasoning in Iran: Insight into biological perception, cultural input, and motivational factors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 153(11), 2822–2848. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001616