Soham Bandyopadhyay, Omar Kouli, Setthasorn Zhi Yang Ooi, Kathrin Whitehouse, Andreas K Demetriades
Are UK medical schools using recommended national curricula for the teaching of clinical neuroscience?
Clinical neurology and neurosurgery
paranoid thinking prevalent nonclinical population cognitive mechanisms heuristic reasoning jumping conclusions bias contributes formation maintenance study investigated degree paranoia perceived environmental risk heuristic reasoning jumping conclusions bias measured beads task contribute misinterpretation neutral stimuli whether informed judgements regarding vulnerability threat crime also investigated whether impulsiveness confounding factor beads task two hundred participants recruited using snowballsampling method quantitative crosssectional study participants reported demographic information three psychometric questionnaires two experimental tasks via online paradigm hosted bristol online survey tool participants high paranoia scores perceived environment dangerous low scores participants high paranoia scores also overestimated threat neutral stimuli high expectations future victimisation jumping conclusions beads task predict fear crime outcomes predicted impulsivity participants demonstrated paranoid thinking likely reside perceived dangerous neighbourhoods overestimate threat could indicate paranoid heuristic potentially rational response prior experiences crime victimisation implications suggestions future research discussed