Purpose Persecutory delusions are a central psychotic experience, at the severe end of a
paranoia spectrum in the general population. The aim of the review is to provide an …

Objectives This research examined how conspiracy mentality may affect compliance with
preventive health measures necessary to fight the COVID‐19 pandemic, and the underlying …

More than 10% of the general population regularly experience paranoid thoughts.
Persecutory delusions occur in one third of psychiatric patients in the United Kingdom and …

Paranoid ideation is a transdiagnostic construct that is associated with social impairment
and often occurs in psychotic spectrum disorders. Little research has examined how …

Objective The ongoing Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation (SCOPE) study is in the
process of forming a gold‐standard battery of social cognition tests for use in clinical trials …

Childhood adversity may increase risk of impaired social functioning across the continuum
of psychosis. However, the pathways by which adversity dictates functional outcome remain …

Current definitions of paranoia include two key components: unfounded ideas of harm and
the idea that the harm is intended by others. However, attributions of harmful intent have …

Background Social cognition is often aberrant or impaired in psychotic disorders and related
to functional outcomes. In particular, one core social cognitive bias–hostile attribution bias …

It has been proposed that subclinical psychotic experiences (PEs) may causally impact on
each other over time and engage with one another in patterns of mutual reinforcement and …

Memory biases (eg overconfidence in false memories) are implicated in the pathogenesis of
delusions. Virtual reality (VR) may provide an opportunity to observe such biases and …