Are you a savvy negotiator? How do you handle unfamiliar social situations? Download the Social Brain App from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to play our games and find out—and contribute to neuroscience and mental health research.
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About the study
Mount Sinai researchers Xiaosi Gu, PhD, and Daniela Schiller, PhD, designed two games measuring how we make decisions to answer questions such as:
- How do we handle social situations?
- How do we perceive fairness and social influence?
Social interactions correlate with mental health, so the app also has mental health questionnaires. By playing our games and answering questions within the app, you will become a part of a massive online study that will allow us to take a whole new approach to the way we conduct research on social behavior.
All data is anonymous, and those who participate will be part of the first National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded study of its kind looking at social interaction and mental health.
The key to this study is scale, so the more people who participate, the more information we’ll have to understand behavior and work on solutions to the mental health crisis worldwide. Researchers hope you will share it with your friends and family.
Dr. Gu is one of the foremost researchers in computational psychiatry. Her research examines the neural and computational mechanisms underlying human beliefs, emotions, decision making, and social interaction in both health and disease.
Dr. Schiller’s line of research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying emotional control. Understanding the neural mechanisms that make such emotional flexibility may shed light on the impairments leading to anxiety disorders and may also promote new forms of treatment.