Delusional ideation, cognitive processes and crime based reasoning
Abstract
© 2017, PsychOpen. All rights reserved. Probabilistic reasoning biases have been widely associated with levels of delusional belief ideation (Galbraith, Manktelow, & Morris, 2010; Lincoln, Ziegler, Mehl, & Rief, 2010; Speechley, Whitman, & Woodward, 2010; White & Mansell, 2009), however, little research has focused on biases occurring during every day reasoning (Galbraith, Manktelow, & Morris, 2011), and moral and crime based reasoning (Wilkinson, Caulfield, & Jones, 2014; Wilkinson, Jones, & Caulfield, 2011). 235 participants were recruited across four experiments exploring crime based reasoning through different modalities and dual processing tasks. Study one explored delusional ideation when completing a visually presented crime based reasoning task. Study two explored the same task in an auditory presentation. Study three utilised a dual task paradigm to explore modality and executive functioning. Study four extended this paradigm to the auditory modality. The results indicated that modality and delusional ideation have a significant effect on individuals reasoning about violent and non-violent crime (p <.05), which could have implication for the presentation of evidence in applied setting such as the courtroom.Citation
Wilkinson, D. J. and Caulfield, L. S. (2017) Delusional ideation, cognitive processes and crime based reasoning, Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13(3), 503–518. doi:10.5964/ejop.v13i3.1181Journal
Europe's Journal of PsychologyPubMed ID
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https://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/1181Type
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1841-0413ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.5964/ejop.v13i3.1181
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