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  • Delusions are increasingly defined by certainty, not content.
  • A continuum model suggests attenuated certainty in high schizotypy individuals.
  • Incomplete information may reveal this inappropriate certainty.

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  • To investigate the link between schizotypy and certainty in hypothesis generation.
  • To examine how individuals with high schizotypy handle probabilistic information.

Main Methods:

  • A cued visual search task was employed.
  • Participants used partially predictive cues to guide responses.
  • Performance was measured under conditions requiring concurrent hypotheses.

Main Results:

  • Performance on tasks requiring dual hypotheses correlated with positive schizotypy.
  • This association was specific to conditions with incomplete information.

Conclusions:

  • High schizotypy is associated with difficulty managing concurrent, partially supported hypotheses.
  • Findings support attentional hyperfocusing in schizophrenia.
  • This may underlie delusion formation and resistance to disconfirming evidence.