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Impaired belief revision yet intact information seeking in positive schizotypy: A modified task of bias against disconfirmatory evidence

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  • Wanchen Zhao
  • Wisteria Deng
  • Tyrone Cannon

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Cognitive models of delusions emphasize the role of bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE) in maintaining false beliefs, but sources of this tendency remain elusive. While impaired information integration could be an explanation for this tendency, the lack of information seeking motive could also result in disregard for new evidence once a (false) belief is formed. The role of information seeking in the association between psychosis-proneness and belief inflexibility has not been investigated in the context of a social interpretation task. In this study, we modified the Interpretation Inflexibility Task (IIT), which assess bias against disconfirmatory evidence in interpersonal contexts, to permit assessment of information seeking by allowing participants to skip seeing increasingly disambiguating information (in the form of pictures at varying degrees of degradation). A robust regression analysis was conducted to examine whether increasing severity of positive schizotypy is associated with more frequent skipping of later trial stages, to examine information seeking. Controlling for the number of pictures seen by participants, a robust mixed effects analysis was conducted to investigate the associations of positive schizotypy, trait anxiety, and the emotional valence of the scenario with a measure of belief revision. Participants higher in positive schizotypy did not opt out of seeing disambiguating information more frequently, p = 0.65, ß = 0.04; despite this, they still exhibited heightened belief inflexibility by rating the lures and true explanations as equally plausible, p

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  • Wanchen Zhao & Wisteria Deng & Tyrone Cannon, 2024. "Impaired belief revision yet intact information seeking in positive schizotypy: A modified task of bias against disconfirmatory evidence," PLOS Mental Health, Public Library of Science, vol. 1(4), pages 1-16, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pmen00:0000017
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmen.0000017
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