NIH R01 · 2025
Modeling and manipulating social percepts in individuals
PROJECT SUMMARY Biases in if and how social interactions are perceived are a hallmark symptom of most major mental illnesses (e.g., people with autism tend to under-perceive social interactions, people with paranoid schizophrenia tend to over-perceive social interactions, and people with depression tend to perceive social interactions in a negative light). These biases likely reflect the extreme end of a continuum that exists in the normative population, suggesting that characterizing individual differences in social-perceptual styles is critical to furthering our understanding of disease. That humans are primed to perceive social interactions even in stripped-down, unlifelike stimuli…
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