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Derationalizing Delusions [PDF]
Clinical Psychological Science, 2020 Because of the traditional conceptualization of delusion as “irrational belief,” cognitive models of delusions largely focus on impairments to domain-general reasoning. Nevertheless, current rationality-impairment models do not account for the fact that (a) equivalently irrational beliefs can be induced through adaptive social cognitive processes ...
Vaughan Bell +2 more
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Risky decision-making and delusion proneness: An initial examination
Heliyon, 2019 Delusion proneness is an individual-differences characteristic, existing on a continuum from no delusional thoughts to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Previous research found individuals high in delusion proneness request less information to make decisions,
Meisha Runyon, Melissa T. Buelow
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Zygon, 2022 Richard Dawkins, in his The God Delusion, argued strongly for atheism. Alister McGrath picked up the challenge and argued that Dawkins is wrong and that his arguments are very weak.
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundDelusion occupies an important position in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with psychoses. Although Karl Jaspers' concept of the primary delusion (PD) is a key hypothesis in descriptive phenomenology concerning the primordial experience
Naoki Hayashi +2 more
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Delusion as a folk psychological kind
Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 In this paper I discuss the scientific respectability of delusion as a psychiatric category. First, I present the essentialist objection to the natural kindhood of psychiatric categories, as well as non-essentialism about natural kinds as a response to ...
Jose Eduardo Porcher
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Can Dispositionalism About Belief Vindicate Doxasticism About Delusion? [PDF]
, 2015 Clinical delusions have traditionally been characterized as beliefs in psychiatry. However, philosophers have recently engaged with the empirical literature and produced a number of objections to the so-called doxastic status of delusion, stemming mainly
Porcher, José Eduardo
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Correlation between white matter hyperintensity and delusional symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease
BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background Patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) often exhibit neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), particularly delusions. Previous studies have shown an association between white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and specific NPS.
Wei Fan +6 more
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Developing hypnotic analogues of clinical delusions : Mirrored-self misidentification [PDF]
, 2008 Introduction. Despite current research interest in delusional beliefs, there are no viable models for studying delusions in the laboratory. However, hypnosis offers a technique for creating transient delusions that are resistant to challenge.
Barnier, Amanda +6 more
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 In this paper we have two main aims. First, we present an account of mood-congruent delusions in depression (hereafter, depressive delusions). We propose that depressive delusions constitute acknowledgements of self-related beliefs acquired as a result of a negatively biased learning process.
ANTROBUS M, BORTOLOTTI L
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BJPsych Open, 2019 BackgroundThe period before the formation of a persecutory delusion may provide causal insights. Patient accounts are invaluable in informing this understanding.AimsTo inform the understanding of delusion formation, we asked patients about the occurrence
Daniel Freeman +14 more
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