ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
Experimentally induced social threat increases paranoid thinking.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Racism and psychosis: an umbrella review and qualitative analysis of the mental health consequences of racism.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
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- Willingness to trust is reduced by loneliness and paranoia.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Psychotomimetic compensation versus sensitization.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2024Review
- Social identification and paranoia.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Asymmetric cognitive learning mechanisms underlying the persistence of intergroup bias.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- The effects of paranoia and dopamine on perception of cohesion and conspiracy: a pre-registered, double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment.Psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Schizophrenia and Increased Distrust-Based Competitiveness in Interpersonal Interactions: A Serial Process Model.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
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- Conspiracy mentality, subclinical paranoia, and political conservatism are associated with perceived status threat.PloS one · 2023Article
- Diverse Experiences and Coping During the COVID-19 Lockdown and Unlock in India.Trends in psychology · 2022Article
- Factors affecting conspiracy theory endorsement in paranoia.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Low competitive status elicits aggression in healthy young men: behavioural and neural evidence.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- Social reward, punishment, and prosociality in paranoia.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2021Article
- Derationalizing Delusions.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Review
- Conjecturing Harmful Intent and Preemptive Strike in Paranoia.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Reduction in social learning and increased policy uncertainty about harmful intent is associated with pre-existing paranoid beliefs: Evidence from modelling a modified serial dictator game.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- Paranoia, sensitization and social inference: findings from two large-scale, multi-round behavioural experiments.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- An evolutionary perspective on paranoia.Nature human behaviour · 2019Article
- Paranoia and conspiracy: group cohesion increases harmful intent attribution in the Trust Game.PeerJ · 2019Article
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Abstract
The ability to attribute intentions to others is a hallmark of human social cognition but is altered in paranoia. Paranoia is the most common positive symptom of psychosis but is also present to varying degrees in the general population. Epidemiological models suggest that psychosis risk is associated with low social rank and minority status, but the causal effects of status and group affiliation on paranoid thinking remain unclear. We examined whether relative social status and perceived group affiliation, respectively, affect live paranoid thinking using two large-
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