作者: P A GARETY , D R HEMSLEY , S WESSELY
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199104000-00003
关键词: Paranoia 、 Jumping to conclusions 、 Delusional disorder 、 Developmental psychology 、 Psychology 、 Schizophrenia 、 Delusion 、 Cognitive psychology 、 Diagnosis of schizophrenia 、 Paranoid Disorders 、 Inference
摘要: An experiment is described in which deluded subjects with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or delusional disorder (paranoia) were compared nondeluded psychiatric control group and normal on probabilistic inference task. Factors relevant to belief formation maintenance investigated. Deluded requested less information before reaching decision more ready change their estimates the likelihood an event when confronted potentially disconfirmatory information. No differences found between two diagnostic groups subjects. The results are discussed light prevailing theories importance abnormal experience rather than reasoning biases beliefs. It suggested that abnormality involved, may coexist perceptual abnormalities.