Journal article
Need for closure, jumping to conclusions, and decisiveness in delusion-prone individuals
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Need for closure refers to a motivated need for certainty. Jumping-to-conclusions bias refers to the gathering of minimal data when making overconfident probabilistic judgments. Both constructs have been associated independently with delusion-proneness. Fifty-eight nonclinical adults were assessed for jumping-to-conclusions bias using an experimental reasoning task, and need for closure, decisiveness concerning real-life dilemmas, and delusion-proneness using questionnaires. Delusion-pronenes...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Journal website
- Volume:
- 194
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 422-426
- Publication date:
- 2006-06-01
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- EISSN:
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1539-736X
- ISSN:
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0022-3018
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- English
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- ora:3134
- Deposit date:
- 2009-12-07
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- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the DOI or publisher links on this record page. Ryan McKay is now based at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
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