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 …

The felt presence experience is the basic feeling that someone else is present in the
immediate environment, without clear sensory evidence. Ranging from benevolent to …

In addition to being a hallmark symptom of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, auditory
verbal hallucinations (AVH) are present in a range of psychiatric disorders as well as among …

Background: Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), or voice-hearing, can be a prominent
symptom during fluctuating mood states in bipolar disorder (BD). Aims: The current study …

Objectives There is a paucity of psychological treatments for visual hallucinations (VH). A
key aspect in the psychological treatment of hallucinationrelated distress is normalisation to …

Background and hypothesis A plausible cause of distress for voice hearers is listening to
and believing the threats and criticisms heard. Qualitative research indicates that patients …

Background This study examined the influence of personality traits on (subclinical) positive
symptom distress in patients with a psychotic disorder, their unaffected siblings and healthy …

Background As access to psychological therapy for voice-hearing continues to increase, it is
important to understand what treatment outcomes may be particularly valued by those who …

Background As demonstrated by a plethora of studies, compromised executive functions
(EF) and language are implicated in mechanisms of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) …

The experience of hearing voices is common to an estimated 7% of the general population,
with the presence of negative content being the best predictor of whether individuals will …