Frank Krueger is a neuroscientist and psychologist. He is professor of systems social neuroscience in the School of Systems Biology at George Mason University, where he heads the Social Cognition and Interaction: Functional Imaging (SCI:FI) laboratory. His research concerns the neural basis of interpersonal trust and social decision-making.
Education Krueger received a master's degree in physics from the Free University of Berlin, and a master's degree in psychology from Humboldt University of Berlin. He went on to a doctorate in cognitive psychology from Humboldt University in 2001, and also completed his habilitation there.
Research
Krueger applies functional neuroimaging and lesion mapping to social cognition. He was the first author of a 2007 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine trust between partners in a repeated economic exchange, and a co-author of earlier work on the neural basis of moral cognition and of charitable donation. With Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg he proposed a model of interpersonal trust drawing on neuroscience, psychology and economics in a 2019 review in Trends in Neurosciences. He edited The Neurobiology of Trust (Cambridge University Press, 2021), a multidisciplinary volume on the subject.
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