Illusory correlations and control across the psychosis continuum: The contribution of hypersalient evidence-hypothesis matches

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 319-327

  Balzan, Ryan P ^a   Delfabbro, Paul H ^a   Galletly, Cherrie A ^a   Woodward, Todd S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

delusions; hypersalience evidence hypothesis matches; illusions of control; illusory correlation; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROL SYSTEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELUSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; ILLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VALIDITY;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; DELUSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84876395335     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318288e229     Document Type: Article

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