Trial reportSchizophrenia bulletin2010
The effect of state anxiety on paranoid ideation and jumping to conclusions. An experimental investigation.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The relationships between anxiety, psychotic-like experiences and autism: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Experimental studies of paranoid thinking in clinical and nonclinical populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Metacognitive training in patients recovering from a first psychosis: an experience sampling study testing treatment effects.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2018Trial
- A prospective study of VR-assessed state paranoia and anxiety suggests threat-related developmental pathways in adolescence.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Active information sampling in health and disease.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Review
- The Impact of Social Stress on Trustworthiness Judgments in Schizophrenia.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- The relationship between risk perception, anxiety and paranoia - A predictive model in a community sample.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Limbic links to paranoia: increased resting-state functional connectivity between amygdala, hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex in schizophrenia patients with paranoia.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- Rethinking delusions: A selective review of delusion research through a computational lens.Schizophrenia research · 2022Review
- A replication study of JTC bias, genetic liability for psychosis and delusional ideation.Psychological medicine · 2022Article
- Woman diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder became delusional after childbirth: A case report.World journal of clinical cases · 2022Article
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- Higher Risk Taking and Impaired Probability Judgment in Behavioral Addiction.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) anxiety management and reasoning bias modification in young adults with anxiety disorders: A real-world study of a therapist-assisted computerized (TACCBT) program Vs. "person-to-person" group CBT.Internet interventions · 2020Article
- Worry and metacognitions as predictors of the development of anxiety and paranoia.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Understanding self-reported difficulties in decision-making by people with autism spectrum disorders.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2018Article
- The Relevance of Emotion Regulation in Explaining Why Social Exclusion Triggers Paranoia in Individuals at Clinical High Risk of Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2018Article
- Data gathering ability contributes to visual organization and probabilistic reasoning.Heliyon · 2018Article
- fMRI correlates of jumping-to-conclusions in patients with delusions: Connectivity patterns and effects of metacognitive training.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2018Observational
- A structural equation model of the relationship between insomnia, negative affect, and paranoid thinking.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Theoretical models of persecutory delusions have emphasized the impact of reasoning biases and negative emotion at the early stages of symptom formation. However, the causal mechanisms remain unclear. This study tests the hypothesis that state anxiety will increase paranoid ideation and that this increase will be moderated by the level of individual vulnerability and mediated by the tendency to jump to conclusions. Healthy participants (n = 90) with varying levels of vulnerability (psychosis symptoms assessed by the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences) were randomly assigned to either an anxiety or a nonanxiety condition. Anxiety was induced by pictures from the International Affective Picture System and by in sensu exposure to individual anxiety-provoking situations. During each condition, symptoms of paranoia were assessed by a state-adapted version of the Paranoia Checklist. Jumping to conclusions (JTC) was assessed using a modified version of the beads task. Overall, participants in the anxiety condition reported significantly more paranoid thoughts and showed more JTC than participants in the neutral condition. Participants with higher baseline vulnerability were more likely to show an increase in paranoia as reaction to the anxiety manipulation. Moreover, the association of anxiety and paranoia was mediated by the increased tendency to jump to conclusions in the beads task. The results are in line with a threat anticipation conceptualization of paranoia and provide evidence for an interaction of anxiety and reasoning biases in the development of paranoid beliefs. A combination of meta-cognitive training directed at reasoning biases and promoting emotion regulation skills might prove beneficial in preventing symptoms.
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