Failures of social self-control (C07*)

• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178833530

The aim of project C07 is to elucidate mechanisms underlying (failures of) self-control in social situations, and to probe whether these mechanisms differ from general, non-social self-control mechanisms. To this end, we will investigate the role of self- and other-directed affective and cognitive simulation processes (emotion anticipation, episodic prospection, empathy, perspective taking) and their respective neural substrates for self-controlled behavior in laboratory paradigms as well as in everyday life (via ecological mo-mentary assessments). We hypothesize that the ability to generate ‘proximate’ representations of temporally or socially distant states supports overcoming current urges at the benefit of long-term (social) goals.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 940: Volition and Cognitive Control: Mechanisms, Modulators and Dysfunctions
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Heads: Dr. Emanuel Jauk; Professor Dr. Philipp Kanske