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

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology ; Biological Psychiatry ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 512007073

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