Katharina Görlich

Katharina Görlich is a researcher affiliated with the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Groningen. Her work focuses on neuroscience, clinical neuropsychology, and emotion processing, with a particular emphasis on alexithymia and its intersections with social hierarchy, hormonal abnormalities, and cutaneous disease morbidity.

• Schools: Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences
• Department: Department of Clinical & Developmental Neuropsychology
• Email: k.s.gorlich@umcg.nl

Research Interests include:

• Social hierarchy and emotion perception
• Neurocomputational mechanisms in fear-biased learning
• Hormonal and physiological correlates of alexithymia
• Impact of alexithymia on dermatological and psychiatric conditions
• Neuroimaging (fMRI) studies on cognitive-emotional interactions
• Behavioral neuroscience in social contexts

Recent Publications highlight her work on:

• Dynamic interplay of social hierarchy and fairness perception (2025)
• Neural sensitivity to hierarchy in competitive settings (2024)
• Hormonal dysregulation in alexithymia (2023)
• Computational models of fear adaptation (2023)
• Alexithymia's role in dermatological morbidity (2022)
• Neuroimaging of inhibitory control in Parkinson's patients (2022)