Titre du document / Document title

Are deluded people unusually prone to illusory correlation?

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

CHADWICK P. ⁽¹⁾ ; TAYLOR G. ⁽²⁾ ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

⁽¹⁾ Royal South Hants Hospital and University of Southampton, ROYAUME-UNI
⁽²⁾ North Warwickshire Mental Health NHS Trust, ROYAUME-UNI

Résumé / Abstract

This study reexamines the possibility that paranoid individuals are unusually prone to perceive illusory correlations. The authors use emotionally neutral word pairs to examine the illusory correlation phenomenon in three diagnostic groups: nonparanoid schizophrenia (n = 10), paranoid schizophrenia or delusional disorder (n=9), and depression (n=10). A one-way analysis of variance shows that the three groups do not differ in their tendency to make illusory correlations. Three separate t tests that compare the data from each of the clinical groups in this study with normative data again reveal no significant difference. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

Revue / Journal Title

Behavior modification    ISSN  0145-4455   CODEN BEMODA 

Source / Source

2000, vol. 24, n^o1, pp. 130-141 (21 ref.)

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, ETATS-UNIS  (1977) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Paranoid schizophrenia

;

Delusion

;

Etiology

;

Cognitive bias

;

Information processing

;

Attribution

;

Human

;

Psychosis

;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Schizophrénie paranoïde

;

Délire

;

Etiologie

;

Biais cognitif

;

Traitement information

;

Attribution

;

Homme

;

Corrélation illusoire

;

Psychose

;

Mots-clés espagnols / Spanish Keywords

Esquizofrenia paranoide

;

Delirio

;

Etiología

;

Seggo cognitivo

;

Procesamiento información

;

Atribución

;

Hombre

;

Psicosis

;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 18045, 35400008186877.0070