The roles of thought suppression and metacognitive beliefs in proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations in a non-clinical sample

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1421-1432

  Jones, Simon R ^a   Fernyhough, Charles ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory verbal hallucinations; Intrusiveness of unwanted thoughts; Metacognitive beliefs; Thought suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748682926     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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