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Current paranoid thinking in patients with delusions: the presence of cognitive-affective biases.

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BACKGROUND: There has been renewed interest in the influence of affect on psychosis. Psychological research on persecutory delusions ascribes a prominent role to cognitive processes related to negative affect: anxiety leads to the anticipation of threat within paranoia; depressive negative ideas about the self create a sense of vulnerability in which paranoid thoughts flourish; and self-consciousness enhances feelings of the self as a target. The objective of this study was to examine such af...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1093/schbul/sbs145

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
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Funding agency for:
Freeman, D
Grant:
G0902308
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Journal:
Schizophrenia bulletin More from this journal
Volume:
39
Issue:
6
Pages:
1281-1287
Publication date:
2013-11-01
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EISSN:
1745-1701
ISSN:
0586-7614
Language:
English
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pubs:367729
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367729
Deposit date:
2013-11-16

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