Bell, V;
Mills, KL;
Modinos, G;
Wilkinson, S;
(2017)
Rethinking Social Cognition in Light of Psychosis: Reciprocal Implications for Cognition and Psychopathology.
Clinical Psychological Science
, 5
(3)
pp. 537-550.
10.1177/2167702616677079.
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Abstract
The positive symptoms of psychosis largely involve the experience of illusory social actors, and yet our current measures of social cognition, at best, only weakly predict their presence. We review evidence to suggest that the range of current approaches in social cognition is not sufficient to explain the fundamentally social nature of these experiences. We argue that social agent representation is an important organizing principle for understanding social cognition and that alterations in social agent representation may be a factor in the formation of delusions and hallucination in psychosis. We evaluate the feasibility of this approach in light of clinical and nonclinical studies, developmental research, cognitive anthropology, and comparative psychology. We conclude with recommendations for empirical testing of specific hypotheses and how studies of social cognition could more fully capture the extent of social reasoning and experience in both psychosis and more prosaic mental states.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Rethinking Social Cognition in Light of Psychosis: Reciprocal Implications for Cognition and Psychopathology |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1177/2167702616677079 |
Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1177/2167702616677079 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Psychosis, social cognition, delusion, hallucination, schizophrenia |
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 > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1574630 |
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