Abstract. Negative affect and impaired emotion regulation skills are prevalent in patients with delusions and contribute to delusion formation and maintenance. This review evaluates existing research on interventions targeting negative affect and ...

Abstract. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) builds on theoretical models that postulate reasoning biases and negative self-schemas to be involved in the formation and maintenance of delusions. However, it is unclear whether CBTp induces ...

Abstract. Metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT) is a group training program that targets cognitive biases, which play a role in the pathogenesis of delusions. It remains unclear to what extent individual MCT modules lead to within- or between-...

Abstract. A bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE) is a cognitive bias associated with delusions in schizophrenia. Previous studies reporting an association between reduced evidence integration and delusions used a single measure of delusion ...

Abstract. Research employing the beads task suggests that people with delusional tendencies over-adjust to disconfirmatory evidence compared to low-delusion-prone individuals. This interpretation is in tension with studies using the bias against ...

Abstract. Learning mechanisms may serve as a framework for understanding the formation of paranoia. Specifically, if paranoid thoughts after social stressors produce a short-term benefit for coping (e.g., downregulating arousal), the encountered negative ...

Abstract. Affiliation, control, and self-esteem are psychological needs that human beings attempt to satisfy and protect (; ). From a motivational perspective, behaviors, attentional and cognitive biases as well as symptoms can ...