Schizophrenics and social judgement. Why do schizophrenics get it wrong?

Autor: Cramer, P., Bowen, J., O'Neill, M.
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Zdroj: British Journal of Psychiatry; Apr92, Vol. 160, p481-487, 7p
Abstrakt: Videotaped social interactions were shown to a population of schizophrenics and controls who were asked to comment on the emotional state of the principal protagonist. Their free responses were subjected to a content analysis to examine which of three possible explanations of known schizophrenic inaccuracies on this task were responsible: formal thought disorder, selective avoidance of psychological factors, or perceptual/attentional deficits. Neither selective avoidance nor marked thought disorder were found to explain these errors. The schizophrenics as a group rated much the same, irrespective of clinical profile. Their judgements of personality were less clear-cut than the controls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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