Using hypnosis to model Fregoli delusion and the impact of challenges on belief revision
| Autor: | Amanda J. Barnier, Rochelle E. Cox, Jocelyn M. Elliott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Hypnosis Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Delusions 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Delusion Fregoli delusion Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Gait 05 social sciences Belief revision medicine.disease Social Perception Voice Conviction Female medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology Facial Recognition 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Consciousness and cognition. 46 |
| ISSN: | 1090-2376 |
| Popis: | Fregoli delusion involves the belief that strangers are known people in disguise. We aimed to model aspects of this delusion for the first time using hypnosis. We informed hypnotised subjects that someone would enter the room (a confederate) and they would believe this person was someone they knew in disguise. After testing their reaction to the confederate, we challenged their delusion by directly contradicting their belief and then asking them to focus on the confederate's voice and gait. Finally, we indexed whether they could identify photographs of the confederate. We found that just over half of our high hypnotisable subjects identified the confederate as someone they knew in disguise. Although many highs abandoned their belief in response to challenges, some maintained strong, unwavering conviction that the confederate was a known person. We discuss these findings in terms of how evidence might be evaluated during both hypnotic and clinical delusions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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