Background: We aimed to test predictions made by the metacognitive model of psychopathology, which assumes associations of metacognitive beliefs and consequent strategies (dubbed cognitive-attentional syndrome, CAS) with symptoms of schizophrenia and psychopathological symptoms in general. Study design: Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia with current auditory hallucinations (n = 64) and...
Contemporary models of psychosis imply that cognitive biases such as the jumping to conclusions (JTC), the bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE), and the liberal acceptance (LA) bias play a role in the pathogenesis of delusions. Most of the studies investigating the role of cognitive biases, however, have been conducted with socially neutral or abstract stimuli and have assessed patients...