ArticleRoyal Society open science2020
Paranoia, sensitization and social inference: findings from two large-scale, multi-round behavioural experiments.
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- Social disconnection and psychotic-like experiences in the Slovak DISCONNECT epidemiological study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Willingness to trust is reduced by loneliness and paranoia.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Conflicting perspectives: Levels of perspective-taking and contributions to psychotic-like experiences.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- Psychotomimetic compensation versus sensitization.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2024Review
- A social inference model of idealization and devaluation.Psychological review · 2024Article
- D2/D3 dopamine supports the precision of mental state inferences and self-relevance of joint social outcomes.Nature. Mental health · 2024Article
- The effects of paranoia and dopamine on perception of cohesion and conspiracy: a pre-registered, double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment.Psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Interactive cognitive maps support flexible behavior under threat.Cell reports · 2023Article
- 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
- Everything is connected: Inference and attractors in delusions.Schizophrenia research · 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
- Trusting and learning from others: immediate and long-term effects of learning from observation and advice.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Social reward, punishment, and prosociality in paranoia.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2021Article
- 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
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The sensitization model suggests that paranoia is explained by over-sensitivity to social threat. However, this has been difficult to test experimentally. We report two preregistered social interaction studies that tested (i) whether paranoia predicted overall attribution and peak attribution of harmful intent and (ii) whether anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity and worry predicted the attribution of harmful intent. In Study 1, we recruited a large general population sample (
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