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Cognitive mechanisms of change in delusions: an experimental investigation targeting reasoning to effect change in paranoia.

Garety, P; Waller, H; Emsley, R; Jolley, S; Kuipers, E; Bebbington, P; Dunn, G; ... Freeman, D; + view all (2015) Cognitive mechanisms of change in delusions: an experimental investigation targeting reasoning to effect change in paranoia. Schizophrenia Bulletin , 41 (2) pp. 400-410. 10.1093/schbul/sbu103. Green open access

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Abstract

Given the evidence that reasoning biases contribute to delusional persistence and change, several research groups have made systematic efforts to modify them. The current experiment tested the hypothesis that targeting reasoning biases would result in change in delusions.

Type: Article
Title: Cognitive mechanisms of change in delusions: an experimental investigation targeting reasoning to effect change in paranoia.
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbu103
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu103
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: belief flexibility, jumping to conclusions, mediators, psychosis, reasoning biases
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > IoN RLW Inst of Neurological Sci
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1436035
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