Cognitive biases mediate the relationship between temperament and character and psychotic-like experiences in healthy adults

Prevalence, dimensionality and clinical relevance of self‐disturbances and psychotic‐like experiences in Polish young adults: a latent class analysis approach.

“…The Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale (DACOBS-18) (van der Gaag et al, 2013) is a self-report scale that assesses cognitive biases associated with psychosis. The Polish version of the questionnaire was prepared with a back-translation procedure and has been used previously (Gaweda et al, 2018c;Gaweda, Prochwicz, & Cella, 2015). Due to the length of this scale and the nature of our study (online screening) we decided to use two subscales (Safety Behaviors and Attentional Biases) of the DACOBS-18 that have been proven to be the best predictors of psychosis risk (Gaweda et al, 2018d).…”

A short educational intervention diminishes causal illusions and specific paranormal beliefs in undergraduates

“…Cognitive biases have been specifically related to various threats to human welfare including the acquisition and persistence of superstitious and pseudoscientific beliefs [ 3 – 5 ]; the emergence of group stereotypes and prejudices [ 6 ]; ideological extremism [ 1 ]; medical diagnostic errors [ 7 , 8 ]; or spurious therapeutic effectiveness [ 9 ]. Furthermore, they might also contribute to psychopathological conditions such as social phobia [ 10 ], depression [ 11 ], eating disorders [ 12 ] or to the development of psychotic-like experiences in healthy adults [ 13 ].…”

Attentional focus moderates the relationship between attention to threat bias and delusion-like experiences in healthy adults

“…Therefore, the studies including individuals reporting DLEs provide a unique opportunity for studying factors contributing to the development and maintenance of psychotic disorders. Among these factors, the cognitive impairments have been found to play a prominent role [20][21][22][23][24][25].…”

“…Yet, only limited studies have examined the linkage of attention to threat bias and delusion-like experiences. Arguedas et al [34] showed that individuals with high frequency of DLEs demonstrate dysfunctional preference to process threatening (angry) faces compared with other facial expressions [22,34]; ATB measured by the Davos Assessment of the Cognitive Biases Scale [45] was also detected to predict the occurrence of DLEs in healthy adults, and to mediate the relationship between personality traits and DLEs [21]. These studies, however, did not take into account the possible impact of basic attentional processes on the relationship between ATB and DLEs.…”