“…Psychotic symptoms can be evaluated in a more standardised way by using a Virtual Reality (VR) environment, which provides an ecologically valid and controlled setting that can elicit paranoid experiences (Freeman et al, 2005. VR environments such as a busy train carriage have been shown to induce paranoid ideation in healthy participants (Freeman et al, 2003, Green et al, 2011, people at UHR for psychosis , and individuals with persecutory delusions (Fornells-Ambrojo et al, 2008, Veling et al, 2014. The environmental stimulus is identical in all participants, and their response can be evaluated as soon as they exit the environment, maximising the likelihood of obtaining an accurate assessment of their experiences.…”