Paranoia and belief updating during a crisis (Suthaharan et al., 2021)

Perceptual model with three hierarchical layers defined by probability distributions: (1) reward belief, (2) contingency beliefs, (3) volatility beliefs used to investigate the relationship between real-world uncertainty, paranoia, and laboratory task behavior.

Model Type: Multilayer Hierarchical Gaussian filter (HGF)

Model Concept(s): Paranoia; COVID-19

Simulation Environment: R

References:

Suthaharan P et al. (2021). Paranoia and belief updating during the COVID-19 crisis Nature Human Behavior