Paranoia and conspiracy: group cohesion increases harmful intent attribution in the Trust Game
Current theories argue that hyper-sensitisation of social threat perception is central to paranoia. Affected people often also report misperceptions of group cohesion (conspiracy) but little is known about the cognitive mechanisms underpinning this conspiracy thinking in live interactions. In a pre-...
Main Authors: | Anna Greenburgh, Vaughan Bell, Nichola Raihani |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2019-08-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/7403.pdf |
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