The current study extends previous investigation of schizotypy as a vulnerability factor for trauma-related intrusions through the use of a clinical sample. Fifty people seeking psychological interventions after experiencing a distressing or traumatic event completed measures of positive schizotypy, posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology, peritraumatic dissociation, and mood. Individuals ...

Introduction Schizotypy refers to a continuum of symptoms from subclinical manifestations in the general population severe schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Neuroimaging studies revealed significant relationships between schizotypy and cortical anatomy population. However, it remains unclear whether these structural associations has gender specificity. Objectives The present study used MRI data...

• Rejection sensitivity (RS) is positively associated with both schizotypy and aggression. Elevated RS in people high may be explained by disorganisation social anxiety. aggression anger the need to retaliate repair mood. Multimodal studies ecologically valid paradigms are needed investigate how RS, might co-exist at brain behavioural levels. expectation of being distanced from excluded others,...

The sense of agency (SoA), a feeling of “I am moving on myself”, is strengthened with high predictability, and attenuated with negative outcomes. The latter might happen because participants usually expect positive outcomes. In the current experiment, we examined the hypothesis that SoA against negative outcomes would be strengthened when participants expect negative outcomes. In a trial, voice...

We sought to validate the psychometric properties of a recently developed paradigm that aims to measure salience attribution processes proposed to contribute to positive psychotic symptoms, the Salience Attribution Test (SAT). The "aberrant salience" measure from the SAT showed good face validity in previous results, with elevated scores both in high-schizotypy individuals, and in patients with...

Hallucinatory experiences are by far not limited to patients with clinical psychosis. A number of internal and external factors may bring about such experiences in healthy individuals, whereby the personality trait of (positive) schizotypy is a major mediator of individual differences. Psychotic experiences are defined as associating abnormal meaning to real but objectively irrelevant perceptio...

Schizotypy refers to the personality trait of experiencing "psychotic" symptoms and can be regarded as a predisposition of schizophrenia-spectrum psychopathology (Raine, 1991). Cumulative evidence has revealed that individuals with schizotypy, as well as schizophrenia patients, have emotional processing deficits. In the present study, we investigated multimodal emotion perception in schizotypy ...

Heavy cannabis use is associated with interpersonal problems that may arise in part from the inaccurate perception of emotional faces. Only one study reports impairments in emotional facial affect processing in heavy cannabis users; however, it is not clear whether these findings were attributable to differences between cannabis users and controls in schizotypy or gender, rather than from canna...

Developmental theories highlight the salience of attachment theory in explaining vulnerability towards psychosis. At the same time there is increasing recognition that psychosis is associated with childhood trauma variables. This study explored the interaction between attachment and several trauma variables in relation to schizotypy levels in a non-clinical sample. 283 non-clinical participants...

OBJECTIVE Given the familial influences on schizophrenia, it may be hypothesized that specific symptom domains also cluster within families, and that this applies to both clinical and subclinical levels of expression. This hypothesis was put to the test in a group of patients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of psychotic disorder together with their unaffected siblings, and a group of healthy sib-pairs....