Enjoying Life: The Anhedonic Spectrum - ELAN
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ELAN – Enjoying Life: The Anhedonic Spectrum
The ELAN study examines four specific components of reward processing (wanting, liking, effort, learning) on different levels. We use questionnaires, questions via smartphone, physiological data, and four experiments in the MRI. Our goal is to precisely characterize anhedonia (i.e. the loss or reduction of pleasure and interest) and hedonic well-being with regard to these components of reward processing. We therefore measured 70 young healthy adults varying on their trait hedonic level from anhedonic to very hedonic. In addition, we conducted two larger online survey studies on anhedonia and mental health.
Publications
Daniels, A., Wellan, S. A., & Walter, H. (2021). Learning it the hard way–how enjoying life and positive appraisal buffer the negative effects of stressors on mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 6, 100200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100200
Wellan, S. A., Daniels, A., & Walter, H. (2021). State anhedonia in young healthy adults: psychometric properties of the German Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS) and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 682824. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682824
Team: Sarah Wellan
Head: Henrik Walter
Part of RTGs: Extrospection: External access to higher cognitive processes
Funding: DFG (11/2018-07/2022)
contact: Sarah Wellan