SynthesisSchizophrenia bulletin2017
Association of the Jumping to Conclusions and Evidence Integration Biases With Delusions in Psychosis: A Detailed Meta-analysis.
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- Metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT): a systematic meta-review of its effectiveness.Translational psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Reasoning and interpretation cognitive biases related to psychotic characteristics: An umbrella-review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Thinking biases and their role in persecutory delusions: A systematic review.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
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- Effects of Metacognitive Training on Cognitive Insight in a Sample of Patients with Schizophrenia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
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- Jumping to Conclusions in First-Episode Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Translation and Validation of the 18-Item Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale in Arabic.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
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- Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- TechnologicalNature. Mental health · 2026Article
- Jumping to conclusions bias in early psychosis: Relationships with symptom dimensions, neurocognition and social cognition.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Do generative AI chatbots increase psychosis risk?World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
- Belief inflexibility reduces the impact of allostatic overload on psychotic-like experiences among Ukrainian refugees.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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Abstract
We completed a meta-analysis to investigate the relationship between delusions in psychosis and 4 cognitive biases: "jumping to conclusions" (JTC), the "bias against disconfirmatory evidence" (BADE), the "bias against confirmatory evidence" (BACE), and "liberal acceptance" (LA). Building on recent meta-analyses we compared more narrowly defined groups. We identified 35 JTC, 8 BADE, 7 BACE, and 6 LA studies for inclusion. Groups with schizophrenia who were currently experiencing delusions demonstrated greater JTC, BADE, BACE, and LA than groups with schizophrenia who were not currently experiencing delusions, who in turn demonstrated no more JTC than healthy control groups. Hence JTC, BADE, BACE, and LA co-vary with delusions in cross-sectional samples of people with schizophrenia. Groups who were experiencing delusions due to other psychiatric illnesses also demonstrated greater JTC than healthy controls, and equivalent JTC to groups with schizophrenia currently experiencing delusions. Hence JTC is associated with delusions across a range of diagnoses. Groups with other, non-delusional psychiatric illnesses demonstrated less JTC, BADE, BACE, and LA than groups with schizophrenia currently experiencing delusions, less JTC than groups experiencing delusions due to other diagnoses, and no more JTC, BADE, BACE, or LA than healthy control groups. Hence JTC, BADE, BACE, and LA were not associated with psychiatric illnesses in general. Our results indicate all 4 biases are associated with delusions specifically rather than merely with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or with being psychiatrically ill, consistent with the possibility that they contribute to delusional severity.
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