Aggressive decisions in social conflicts – Neuro-cognitive models for healthy individuals and psychiatric patients with high scores of aggression (C02)

C02 plans to present mathematically well-designed aggressive decision scenarios to healthy participants and patients across diagnostic categories with high scores of aggressive behavior, threat sensitivity, and inference of hostile intent in others. Computational models will be developed to identify the aggressive decision strategies humans employ in approach-avoidance conflicts of increasing complexity and ecological realism. The purpose will be to determine if patients use overly aggressive strategies that are not warranted by the necessary defense of self-threats and underlying neural circuits.

DFG Programme CRC/Transregios

Subproject of TRR 379:  Neuropsychobiology of Aggression: A Transdiagnostic Approach in Mental Disorders

Applicant Institution Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Project Heads Professor Dr. Christoph Korn; Professor Dr. Klaus Mathiak