Delusional Ideation, Cognitive Processes and Crime Based Reasoning
Affiliation
University of Chester; University of WolverhamptonPublication Date
2017-08-31
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Probabilistic reasoning biases have been widely associated with levels of delusional belief ideation (Galbraith, Manktelow, & Morris, 2010; Lincoln, Ziegler, Mehl, & Rief, 2010; Speechley, Whitman, & Woodward, 2010; White & Mansell, 2009), however, little research has focused on biases occurring during every day reasoning (Galbraith, Manktelow, & Morris, 2011), and moral and crime based reasoning (Wilkinson, Caulfield, & Jones, 2014; Wilkinson, Jones, & Caulfield, 2011). 235 participants were recruited across four experiments exploring crime based reasoning through different modalities and dual processing tasks. Study one explored delusional ideation when completing a visually presented crime based reasoning task. Study two explored the same task in an auditory presentation. Study three utilised a dual task paradigm to explore modality and executive functioning. Study four extended this paradigm to the auditory modality. The results indicated that modality and delusional ideation have a significant effect on individuals reasoning about violent and non-violent crime (p < .05), which could have implication for the presentation of evidence in applied setting such as the courtroom.Citation
Wilkinson, D. J., & Caulfield, L. S. (2017). Delusional ideation, cognitive processes and crime based reasoning. Europe's journal of psychology, 13(3), 503. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i3.1181Publisher
PsychOpenJournal
Europe's Journal of PsychologyAdditional Links
https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1181Type
ArticleLanguage
enEISSN
1841-0413ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.5964/ejop.v13i3.1181
Scopus Count
Collections
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/