SynthesisEarly intervention in psychiatry2022
Thinking biases and their role in persecutory delusions: A systematic review.
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- Thinking biases and their role in persecutory delusions: A systematic review.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
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- Errors or Adaptations? A Critical Review of Predictive Processing in Psychiatry.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Jumping to conclusions bias in early psychosis: Relationships with symptom dimensions, neurocognition and social cognition.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Relationship between cognitive reserve (education), social cognition and negative symptoms.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2025Article
- Using machine learning to predict persecutory beliefs based on aetiological models of delusions identified in a systematic literature search.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Mediating effect of risk propensity between impulsivity and psychotic experiences among Lebanese young adults.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- Advances in the ecological validity of research on social cognition in schizophrenia: A systematic review of the literature.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2025Review
- Reliability and Validity of the Turkish versions of the Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale (DACOBS) and Cognitive Biases Questionnaire for Psychosis (CBQp).Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2024Article
- Cognitive biases in first-episode psychosis with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
aimThinking biases are posited to be involved in the genesis and maintenance of delusions. Persecutory delusions are one of the most commonly occurring delusional subtypes and cause substantial distress and disability to the individuals experiencing them. Their clinical relevance confers a rationale for investigating them. Particularly, this review aims to elucidate which cognitive biases are involved in their development and persistence.
methodsMEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO and Global Health were searched from the year 2000 to June 2020. A formal narrative synthesis was employed to report the findings and a quality assessment of included studies was conducted.
resultsTwenty five studies were included. Overall, 18 thinking biases were identified. Hostility and trustworthiness judgement biases appeared to be specific to persecutory delusions while jumping to conclusions, self-serving attributional biases and belief inflexibility were proposed to be more closely related to other delusional subtypes. While the majority of the biases identified were suggested to be involved in delusion maintenance, hostility biases, need for closure and personalizing attributional biases were believed to also have aetiological influences.
conclusionsThese findings show that some cognitive biases are specific to paranoid psychosis and appear to be involved in the formation and/or persistence of persecutory delusions.
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