Delusions are a difficult-to-treat and intellectually fascinating aspect of many psychiatric
illnesses. Although scientific progress on this complex topic has been challenging, some …

Because of the traditional conceptualization of delusion as “irrational belief,” cognitive
models of delusions largely focus on impairments to domain-general reasoning …

Background Over 80% of the global population consider themselves religious, with even
more identifying as spiritual, but the neural substrates of spirituality and religiosity remain …

Cognitive biases can permeate everyday clinical decision-making processes and adversely
affect the accuracy of clinical judgments, even among the many practitioners who are …

Backgr1ound Widespread vaccine hesitancy and refusal complicate containment of the
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Extant research indicates that biased reasoning and conspiracist …

Introduction: Delusions demand an explanation in terms of their neural, psychological, and
sociological mechanisms. We must bridge these levels of explanation in order to understand …

Motivated reasoning occurs when we reason differently about evidence that supports our
prior beliefs than when it contradicts those beliefs. Adult participants (N= 377) from …

Following the popularity of dual process models in social and cognitive psychology, there is
major interest in the possibility that autism is associated with impaired “fast” intuitive thinking …

There is widespread agreement that delusions in clinical populations and delusion-like
beliefs in the general population are, in part, caused by cognitive biases. Much of the …

Importance Recent accounts suggest that delusions and hallucinations may result from
alterations in how prior knowledge is integrated with new information, but experimental …