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Individual differences in negative priming: Relations with schizotypal personality traits
Author(s) -
Beech Anthony,
Claridge Gordon
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1987.tb02252.x
Subject(s) - schizotypy , psychology , negative priming , cognition , personality , correlation , priming (agriculture) , schizotypal personality disorder , cognitive psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , social psychology , selective attention , neuroscience , botany , geometry , germination , mathematics , psychiatry , biology
A study is reported of normal subjects, selected for degree of schizotypal personality traits, on a cognitive task designed to measure, in a negative priming paradigm, the extent to which they differed in interference and presumed inhibitory effects on performance. The main individual differences measure used ‐ a new scale of schizotypy ‐ showed, as predicted, a significant correlation with negative priming. The correlation with a measure of ‘interference’ was non‐significant but in the expected direction. The results are judged relevant to research implicating a weakening of inhibitory selective mechanisms in schizophrenia and to models in abnormal psychology proposing a continuum between normal and abnormal cognitive function. As such, they suggest a soundly based theoretical approach to the analysis of the individual variations in information processing commonly observed in general cognitive psychology.