Paranoia as a deficit in non-social belief updating [PDF]
eLife, 2020 Paranoia is the belief that harm is intended by others. It may arise from selective pressures to infer and avoid social threats, particularly in ambiguous or changing circumstances.
Erin J Reed +6 more
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Exploring the relationship between frequent cannabis use, belief updating under uncertainty and psychotic-like symptoms [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryBackgroundCannabis users present an important group for investigating putative mechanisms underlying psychosis, as cannabis-use is associated with an increased risk of psychosis.
Amir Englund +2 more
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Belief updating in bipolar disorder predicts time of recurrence [PDF]
eLife, 2020 Bipolar disorder is a chronic relapsing condition in which mood episodes are interspersed with periods of wellbeing (euthymia). Shorter periods of euthymia are associated with poorer functioning, so it is crucial to identify predictors of relapse to ...
Paolo Ossola +3 more
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Pupil diameter encodes the idiosyncratic, cognitive complexity of belief updating [PDF]
eLife, 2020 Pupils tend to dilate in response to surprising events, but it is not known whether these responses are primarily stimulus driven or instead reflect a more nuanced relationship between pupil-linked arousal systems and cognitive expectations.
Alexandre LS Filipowicz +3 more
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Risk attitude and belief updating: theory and experiment [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Despite the importance of risk attitude in decision-making, its role in belief updating has been overlooked. Using economic theory, we analyzed a dual-self equilibrium where an individual first updates her belief about an uncertain state and then takes ...
Evelyn Y. H. Huang, Benson Tsz Kin Leung
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Belief Updating, Childhood Maltreatment, and Paranoia in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders. [PDF]
Schizophr BullBackground and Hypothesis Exposure to childhood maltreatment—a risk factor for psychosis that is associated with paranoia—may impact one’s beliefs about the world and how beliefs are updated.
Sloan AF +6 more
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Impaired belief updating and devaluation in adult women with bulimia nervosa. [PDF]
Transl Psychiatry, 2023 Recent models of bulimia nervosa (BN) propose that binge-purge episodes ultimately become automatic in response to cues and insensitive to negative outcomes.
Berner LA +6 more
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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 Alterations in belief-updating are proposed to underpin symptoms of psychiatric illness, including psychosis, depression, and anxiety. Key parameters underlying belief-updating can be captured using computational modelling techniques, aiding the ...
TERESA Katthagen
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How mood shapes belief updating bias in depression. [PDF]
Cogn Affect Behav NeurosciMajor depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by mood-congruent beliefs, such as devaluation, unworthiness, helplessness, pessimism, or guilt. These depressive beliefs could cause and maintain emotional and behavioral disturbances, playing a central ...
Bottemanne H +5 more
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Predicting Outcomes in a Sequence of Binary Events: Belief Updating and Gambler's Fallacy Reasoning. [PDF]
Cogn Sci, 2023 Beliefs like the Gambler's Fallacy and the Hot Hand have interested cognitive scientists, economists, and philosophers for centuries. We propose that these judgment patterns arise from the observer's mental models of the sequence‐generating mechanism ...
Rao K, Hastie R.
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