A systematic review of all reported incidence and prevalence studies of population rates of
subclinical psychotic experiences reveals a median prevalence rate of around 5% and a …

At least 10–15% of the general population regularly experience paranoid thoughts and
persecutory delusions are a frequent symptom of psychosis. Persecutory ideation is a key …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves
multiple purposes, and although there is a sizable and expanding research literature on the …

BackgroundMentalising impairment (an impaired ability to think about people in terms of
their mental states) has frequently been associated with schizophrenia. AimsTo assess the …

Schizotypy refers to a set of personality traits thought to reflect the subclinical expression of
the signs and symptoms of schizophrenia. Here, we review the cognitive and brain …

Several studies have demonstrated that patients with schizophrenia are impaired in
recognizing emotions from facial expressions and in appreciating other people's mental …

Patients suffering from schizophrenia show impaired emotional and social behavior, such as
misinterpretation of social situations and lack of theory of mind. However, there is conflicting …

This review highlights the importance of right hemisphere language functions for successful
social communication and advances the hypothesis that the core deficit in psychosis is a …

In this paper we propose an analysis of the metaphor “This surgeon is a butcher!” discussed
in Grady, Oakley & Coulson (1999), introducing it into a mental space framework derived …