Social identification and paranoia.

A Greenburgh, L Zamperetti, V Bell, N Raihani

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Social identification and paranoia.Royal Society open science · 2024
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A GreenburghDepartment of Health Services and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, David Goldberg Centre, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9654-8243

L ZamperettiDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK.

V BellDepartment of Clinical, Education and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK.

N RaihaniDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-9889

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Paranoia is associated with variation in social behaviour, such as lower inclination to trust others or to behave generously in economic game settings. Such variation may stem, in part, from a reduced tendency to socially identify with others, although previous studies have reported mixed results. We tested whether paranoia involves altered social identification in a pre-registered online study investigating the relationship between a measure of social identification, paranoia, and social behaviours in economic games. We successfully manipulated social identification, but paranoia was associated with slightly increased social identification overall. Neither paranoia nor social identification predicted behaviour in the economic games, and there was no interaction between paranoia and social identification regarding trusting and cooperative behaviours. Our results converge with recent work suggesting that more paranoid individuals may harbour a higher tendency to perceive themselves as having similar beliefs to others. We discuss some key areas for future research to progress understanding in this area.

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cooperationparanoiasocial identitytrust

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PMID39100170

DOI10.1098/rsos.231961

PMCPMC11296205

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