Recent work in social cognition has moved beyond a focus on how people process social
rewards to examine how healthy people represent other agents and how this is altered in …

Dopamine is known to play a role in the pathogenesis of psychotic symptoms, but the
mechanisms driving dopaminergic dysfunction in psychosis remain unclear. Considerable …

Paranoia is the belief that others intend you harm. It is related to conspiracy theories,
wherein those others represent an organized faction, coordinating the harm against self and …

Background Difficulties in the ability to adapt beliefs in the face of new information are
associated with psychosis and its central symptom–paranoia. As cognitive processes and …

Novelty detection is critical to the effective employment of memory-guided behavior. While
recent work has found impaired novelty detection in subclinical paranoia, other studies show …

This chapter outlines a biologically tractable, nonnativist account of moral motivation and
sketches how it might emerge from more general processes in human brains and bodies. To …

Psychosis is characterized by unusual percepts and beliefs in the form of hallucinations and
delusions. Antipsychotic medication, the primary treatment for psychosis, is often ineffective …

Predictive processing (PP) provides a framework for understanding disordered cognition
and experiences in terms of altered Bayesian inference. Petrovic and Sterzer 2 re-examine …

The prediction error account of delusions has had success. However, its explanation of
delusions with different contents has been lacking. Persecutory delusions and paranoia are …

Substance use (SU) and various problems arising from it represent major public health and
clinical problems and touch virtually every aspect of society. Recent estimates of the total …