Monocausal attribution and its relationship with reasoning biases in schizophrenia

Aberrant attributional styles are counted to a set of circumscribed cognitive biases that are implicated in the pathogenesis of (paranoid) psychosis. However, evidence for a specific profile (e.g., an exaggerated self-serving bias, other-blaming bias) has become equivocal over the years. More recently, one-sided (monocausal) attributions have been reported in patients with psychosis.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Steffen Moritz, Richard P. Bentall, Katharina Kolbeck, Daniela Roesch-Ely Source Type: research