Reasoning heuristics across the psychosis continuum: The contribution of hypersalient evidence–hypothesis matches

摘要: Introduction. Hypersalience of evidence–hypothesis matches has recently been proposed as the cognitive mechanism responsible for biases which, in turn, may contribute to formation and maintenance delusions. However, construct lacks empirical support. The current paper investigates possibility that individuals with delusions are hypersalient using a series tasks designed elicit representativeness availability reasoning heuristics. It was hypothesised hypersalience increase person's propensity rely on judgements (i.e., when probability an outcome is based its similarity parent population) estimates frequency ease which relevant events come mind). Methods. A total 75 participants (25 diagnosed schizophrenia history delusions; 25 nonclinical delusion-prone; nondelusion-prone...