Introduction While the study of conspiracy theory beliefs is a relatively new research area,
there has been a rise in academic interest in recent years. The literature provides evidence …

Recently, researchers from developmental and clinical psychology highlighted epistemic
trust (ET) as a key factor for personality disorders. ET is intended as the mental openness to …

Trust is a crucial facet of social functioning that feeds into our relationships with individuals,
groups, and organizations. The Psychology of Interpersonal Trust: Theory and Research …

The relationship between schizophrenia and violence has been well-established. Yet very
little prior research exists on the factors that might explain the nature of this relationship and …

Background Psychopathology in childhood and adolescence, commonly indexed by co-
occurring internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, has been found to predict …

This study examined whether social mistrust in early adolescence was general or referent-
specific. We used a multi-trait multi-method approach to examine the validity of mistrust …

This study aimed to develop a new scale, the Early Psychotic Symptoms screening scale
(EPSy), to assess the prodromes of psychotic symptoms in children aged 4 to 13 years. Two …

Paranoia is the erroneous idea that people are targeting you for harm, and the cognitive
model suggests that symptoms increase with emotional and relational distress. A factor …

Background Psychotic experiences (PE s) such as paranoia and hallucinations, and
negative symptoms (NS) such as anhedonia and flat affect are common in adolescence …

High-quality parental caregiving promotes children's development from their day of birth or
even earlier. Whether there are ways to predict, and ultimately enhance, parental caregiving …