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Persecutory delusions and recall of threatening propositions
S Kaney1, M Wolfenden, M E Dewey
1Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK.
The British Journal of Clinical Psychology
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
Subjects suffering from persecutory delusions, psychiatric controls and normal subjects were required to recall immediately six passages of prose, half of which contained mildly threatening propositions. Deluded subjects recalled fewer propositions overall but more propositions of specifically threatening content. These findings suggest that the role of recall bias in persecutory delusions merits further study.