Preserved intention understanding during moral judgments in schizophrenia.

摘要: Introduction Although there is convincing evidence for socio-cognitive impairments in schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD), little found deficient moral cognition. We investigated whether patients with SSD showed altered judgments a story task where the protagonist either had neutral or malicious intention towards another person. This paradigm examined relates to cognition general specifically impaired integration of prior information (such as beliefs) judgments. Methods 23 and 32 healthy controls read vignettes created 2 x design. The each negative person which, result, died (negative outcome) did not die (neutral outcome). Participants rated permissibility protagonist’s action. Standard null hypothesis significance testing equivalent Bayes analyses are reported. Results Schizophrenia differ significantly ratings from controls. finding was supported by which favoured hypothesis. Task performance related symptom severity medication. Conclusions current findings do support notion that schizophrenia. Furthermore, study shows have observable difficulties integrating belief rating action-outcome.