What is it about?
This study showed that people high in paranoid thinking were more likely to falsely recognize a new item as having been previously presented. We identified two processes that contributed to this effect: (a) an overreliance on nonspecific feelings of familiarity when making memory judgments and (b) overconfidence in those judgments, potentially related to a reduced ability to question one’s own mistakes.
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Why is it important?
Our findings offer some insight into the ways in which new information might be disregarded by paranoid individuals and how this might contribute to models of the world that are out-of-sync with reality and resistant to correction.
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This page is a summary of: Paranoia is associated with impaired novelty detection and overconfidence in recognition memory judgments., Journal of Abnormal Psychology, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/abn0000664.
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