{"pk":50245,"title":"Towards a computational account of egodystonia","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Egodystonia refers to thoughts and behaviors that conflict with one's values or beliefs, which is often observed in psychiatric conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). While prior work has demonstrated dissociations between beliefs and actions (Vaghi et al., 2017, 2019), we lack a computational framework to explain the mechanisms underlying this mismatch. In a novel experiment combining behavior and subjective report, we induced egodystonic feelings in a healthy population with a range of obsessive-compulsive traits. Individuals scoring higher on the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (OCI-R) reported greater egodystonic experiences. Egodystonicity was not influenced by reward availability or action rate, but was driven by perceived consequences of inaction, as captured by a computational model of the task. This study provides the first experimental evidence of induced egodystonia and offers a foundation for theoretical advances in understanding this phenomenon.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Action; Cognitive architectures; Emotion; Computational Modeling; Survey"}],"section":"Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gw458nw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lucy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lai","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Tobias","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hauser","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of TŸbingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Quentin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Huys","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50245/galley/38207/download/"}]}