Social cognition consists of several skills which allow us to interact with other humans.
These skills include social stimuli processing, drawing inferences about others' mental …

Abnormalities in social interaction are a common feature of several psychiatric disorders,
aligning with the recent move towards using Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) to describe …

The lack of initiative, drive or effort in patients with schizophrenia is linked to marked
functional impairments. However, our assessment of effort and motivation is crude, relying …

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 …

An impaired ability to appreciate other people's mental states is a well-established and
stable cognitive deficit in schizophrenia, which might explain some aspects of patients' …

Background Using paradigms from game theory, researchers have reported abnormal
decision-making in social context in patients with schizophrenia. However, less is known …

Randomization among successive choices is important in adaptive decision-making,
particularly for strategic interactions in which the optimal strategy is a mixed strategy …

Cooperation and free riding are among the most frequently observed behaviors in human
social decision-making. In social interactions, the effects of strategic decision processes …

Risky co-operation is when an individual chooses to co-operate in a social situation despite
the possibility of the partner refusing to co-operate. Although this is a deviation from rational …

Patients with schizophrenia show reduced cooperation and less sensitivity to social cues in
pairwise interactions, however, it remains unclear whether these mechanisms are also …