ReviewClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2021
Derationalizing Delusions.
Review in Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.
- Delusional Themes are More Varied Than Previously Assumed: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- Differential Impact of Social and Non-social Cues on Decision-making Across At-risk Mental State, Early Psychosis, and Healthy Participants.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2026Article
- Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions.Psychopathology · 2026Article
- "I was trying to save the world": delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Loneliness and delusion-like experiences among women: Mediating role of procrastination and boredom proneness.PloS one · 2025Article
- Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchange.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Visualizing threat and trustworthiness prior beliefs in face perception in high versus low paranoia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Self-Disorder in Schizophrenia: A Revised View (1. Comprehensive Review-Dualities of Self- and World-Experience).Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Review
- The effects of paranoia and dopamine on perception of cohesion and conspiracy: a pre-registered, double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment.Psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Excessive teleological thinking is driven by aberrant associations and not by failure of reasoning.iScience · 2023Article
- Differential Trajectories of Delusional Content and Severity Over 2 Years of Early Intervention for Psychosis: Comparison Between Chennai, India, and Montréal, Canada.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Developing and validating the Japanese version of the Referential Thinking Scale: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2023Article
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- Everything is connected: Inference and attractors in delusions.Schizophrenia research · 2022Article
- Rethinking delusions: A selective review of delusion research through a computational lens.Schizophrenia research · 2022Review
- Factors affecting conspiracy theory endorsement in paranoia.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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- Conjecturing Harmful Intent and Preemptive Strike in Paranoia.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Because of the traditional conceptualization of delusion as "irrational belief," cognitive models of delusions largely focus on impairments to domain-general reasoning. Nevertheless, current rationality-impairment models do not account for the fact that (a) equivalently irrational beliefs can be induced through adaptive social cognitive processes, reflecting social integration rather than impairment; (b) delusions are overwhelmingly socially themed; and (c) delusions show a reduced sensitivity to social context both in terms of how they are shaped and how they are communicated. Consequently, we argue that models of delusions need to include alteration to coalitional cognition-processes involved in affiliation, group perception, and the strategic management of relationships. This approach has the advantage of better accounting for both content (social themes) and form (fixity) of delusion. It is also supported by the established role of mesolimbic dopamine in both delusions and social organization and the ongoing reconceptualization of belief as serving a social organizational function.
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