Towards causal real-life insights into mechanisms of risk and resilience for substance use: Incorporating experimental interventions in everyday life (C05*)

• Subject Area: Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 402170461

We will establish a real-life intervention platform that incorporates both momentary assessment and intervention into everyday life. In 180 heavy drinkers, we will manipulate loneliness and craving for alcohol - contexts found to be highly relevant to AUD in the 1st FP - with cognitive reappraisal and physical activity interventions. Our real-life intervention platform will be a powerful tool to detect causality in a wealth of everyday life influences on substance use and it will offer new avenues for low-threshold prevention and therapy.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 265: Losing and Regaining Control over Drug Intake: From Trajectories to Mechanisms to Interventions
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Heads: Dr. Shuyan Liu; Professor Dr. Markus Reichert