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Belief Revision and Delusions: How Do Patients with Schizophrenia Take Advice?

Kaliuzhna, Mariia  
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Chambon, Valerian
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Franck, Nicolas
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2012
Plos One

The dominant cognitive model that accounts for the persistence of delusional beliefs in schizophrenia postulates that patients suffer from a general deficit in belief revision. It is generally assumed that this deficit is a consequence of impaired reasoning skills. However, the possibility that such inflexibility affects the entire system of a patient's beliefs has rarely been empirically tested. Using delusion-neutral material in a well-documented advice-taking task, the present study reports that patients with schizophrenia: 1) revise their beliefs, 2) take into account socially provided information to do so, 3) are not overconfident about their judgments, and 4) show less egocentric advice-discounting than controls. This study thus shows that delusional patients' difficulty in revising beliefs is more selective than had been previously assumed. The specificities of the task and the implications for a theory of delusion formation are discussed.

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research article
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0034771
Web of Science ID

WOS:000305339200018

Author(s)
Kaliuzhna, Mariia  
Chambon, Valerian
Franck, Nicolas
Testud, Berangere
Van der Henst, Jean-Baptiste
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Public Library of Science

Published in
Plos One
Volume

7

Issue

4

Article Number

e34771

Subjects

Disconfirmatory Evidence Bade

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Improving Judgment

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Decision-Making

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Cognitive Bias

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Expert Advice

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Explanations

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Experiences

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People

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Self

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July 27, 2012
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