BackgroundProblems with the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia have led for a call
to change strategy and focus on individual psychotic experiences. In recent years, research …

Objective This review explores the influence of anxiety and depression on the experience of
positive psychotic symptoms, and investigates the possibility of a causal role for anxiety and …

Background Self-esteem is frequently targeted in psychological approaches to persecutory
delusions (PD). However, its precise role in the formation and maintenance of PD is unclear …

Negative emotional states and low self-esteem play a crucial role in the development of
persecutory delusions. This study therefore tests whether a brief intervention that targets …

Background It has been consistently demonstrated that delusions are related to jumping to
conclusions (JTC), a data-gathering bias and potential candidate endophenotype of …

Depression is common in people with schizophrenia, but how it might directly contribute to
the persistence of psychotic symptoms has rarely been tested. The key aim of the present …

Background: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has played an increasingly important role
in psychotherapy for schizophrenia since the 1990s, but it has also encountered many …

Objectives Hypersalience of evidence‐hypothesis matches has recently been proposed as
the cognitive mechanism responsible for the cognitive biases, which, in turn, may contribute …

Worry has traditionally been considered in the study of common emotional disorders such as
anxiety and depression, but recent studies indicate that worry may be a causal factor in the …

Previous research has found that reduced self-reassurance and heightened verbal 'self-
attacking'of a sadistic and persecutory nature are both associated with greater subclinical …