Hooked on a memory: How rumination about past positive events might contribute to grandiose ideas?

CONCLUSIONS: Our results confirm rumination's causal role in forming grandiose ideas. We also found that autobiographical memory and, more specifically, the capacity to recall past positive experiences coupled with repeatedly thinking about them might constitute a fundamental pathway leading to the persistence of such beliefs. The use of a non-clinical sample limits the results and needs replication in clinical samples.PMID:37089072 | DOI:10.1111/bjc.12425

Source: The British Journal of Clinical Psychology - April 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Catherine Bortolon C éline Baeyens St éphane Raffard Source Type: research