Confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia: motivational factors and false claims
False claims are a key feature of confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia. In this paper we consider the role of <em>motivational factors</em> in such claims. We review motivational accounts of each symptom and consider the evidence adduced in support of these accounts. In our view the...
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| description | False claims are a key feature of confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia. In this paper we consider the role of <em>motivational factors</em> in such claims. We review motivational accounts of each symptom and consider the evidence adduced in support of these accounts. In our view the evidence is strongly suggestive of a role for motivational factors in each domain. Before concluding, we widen the focus by outlining a tentative general taxonomy of false claims, including false claims that occur in clinical settings as well as more garden-variety false claims, and incorporating both motivational and nonmotivational approaches to explaining such claims. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:80675caf-e232-4734-9525-de1eb75764902022-03-26T21:23:06ZConfabulation, delusion, and anosognosia: motivational factors and false claimsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:80675caf-e232-4734-9525-de1eb7576490AnthropologyEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetPsychology Press2010McKay, RKinsbourne, MFalse claims are a key feature of confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia. In this paper we consider the role of <em>motivational factors</em> in such claims. We review motivational accounts of each symptom and consider the evidence adduced in support of these accounts. In our view the evidence is strongly suggestive of a role for motivational factors in each domain. Before concluding, we widen the focus by outlining a tentative general taxonomy of false claims, including false claims that occur in clinical settings as well as more garden-variety false claims, and incorporating both motivational and nonmotivational approaches to explaining such claims. |
| spellingShingle | Anthropology McKay, R Kinsbourne, M Confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia: motivational factors and false claims |
| title | Confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia: motivational factors and false claims |
| title_full | Confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia: motivational factors and false claims |
| title_fullStr | Confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia: motivational factors and false claims |
| title_full_unstemmed | Confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia: motivational factors and false claims |
| title_short | Confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia: motivational factors and false claims |
| title_sort | confabulation delusion and anosognosia motivational factors and false claims |
| topic | Anthropology |
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