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Paranoia and conspiracy: group cohesion increases harmful intent attribution in the Trust Game.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Impressions about harm are formed rapidly and then refined, modulated by serotonin.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Trial
- Twin differences in the Minnesota Trust Game relate to neural mechanisms of suspiciousness.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Social identification and paranoia.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Value Representations of Spite Sensitivity in Psychosis on the Minnesota Trust Game.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 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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- The computational relationship between reinforcement learning, social inference, and paranoia.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Paranoid beliefs and conspiracy mentality are associated with different forms of mistrust: A three-nation study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Factors affecting conspiracy theory endorsement in paranoia.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Social reward, punishment, and prosociality in paranoia.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2021Article
- Conjecturing Harmful Intent and Preemptive Strike in Paranoia.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Derationalizing Delusions.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Review
- 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
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Abstract
Current theories argue that hyper-sensitisation of social threat perception is central to paranoia. Affected people often also report misperceptions of group cohesion (conspiracy) but little is known about the cognitive mechanisms underpinning this conspiracy thinking in live interactions. In a pre-registered experimental study, we used a large-scale game theory approach (
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