Probabilistic reasoning in deluded, depressed and normal subjects: Effects of task difficulty and meaningful versus non-meaningful material

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 455-465

  Young, Heather F ^b   Bentall, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PROBABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DELUSIONS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID;

EID: 0030932369     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291796004540     Document Type: Article

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