ArticleJournal of consciousness studies : controversies in science & the humanities2016
Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how?
Article in Journal of consciousness studies : controversies in science & the humanities, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Relational Therapies for People Who Hear Voices: Operationalisation and Current Status of an Emergent Group of Psychological Therapies.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Review
- Moral emotions and auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Social Deafferentation and the Relation Between Loneliness and Hallucinations.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Illusory social agents within and beyond voices: A computational linguistics analysis of the experience of psychosis.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
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- Voice-Hearing and Personification: Characterizing Social Qualities of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Early Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2021Article
- COMT-Val158Met polymorphism modulates antipsychotic effects on auditory verbal hallucinations and temporal lobe gray matter volumes in healthy individuals-symptom relief accompanied by worrisome volume reductions.Brain imaging and behavior · 2020Article
- Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations.Psychological medicine · 2019Review
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Abstract
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are experiences of hearing voices in the absence of an external speaker. Standard explanatory models propose that AVH arise from misattributed verbal cognitions (i.e. inner speech), but provide little account of how heard voices often have a distinct persona and agency. Here we review the argument that AVH have important social and agent-like properties and consider how different neurocognitive approaches to AVH can account for these elements, focusing on inner speech, memory, and predictive processing. We then evaluate the possible role of separate social-cognitive processes in the development of AVH, before outlining three ways in which speech and language processes already involve socially important information, such as cues to interact with others. We propose that when these are taken into account, the social characteristics of AVH can be explained without an appeal to separate social-cognitive systems.
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