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Failing to ponder? delusion‐prone individuals rush to conclusions
Author(s) -
White Lars O.,
Mansell Warren
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical psychology and psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.315
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1099-0879
pISSN - 1063-3995
DOI - 10.1002/cpp.607
Subject(s) - delusion , psychology , feeling , subclinical infection , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , pathology , management , economics
Jumping to conclusions (JTC) has been proposed as an aetiological factor involved in the formation of delusions from the earliest stages. A number of researchers have thus shifted their focus to include the study of subclinical populations. Expanding on these studies, 17 delusion‐prone and 22 control students completed four versions of the beads‐in‐a‐jar paradigm (including multiple jar variants) to test recent claims regarding JTC's specificity to less ambiguous paradigms with a limited number of jars. Additional measures were administered to tease out a potential mechanism underlying JTC. The delusion‐prone group showed a higher JTC bias which proved relatively robust across variants. Task performance was related to degree of self‐reported rushing. It is concluded that delusion‐prone individuals exhibit JTC, even when confronted with more ambiguous scenarios, potentially as a consequence of feeling rushed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.