Individual differences in associative/semantic priming: Spreading of activation in semantic memory and epistemically unwarranted beliefs.

ABSTRACT: Starting from the enhanced spreading of activation through semantic memory (one of the explanatory mechanisms attempting to explain some manifestations observed in schizophrenia) and the psychosis continuum (a dimensional approach to psychotic disorders, where 'normality' and 'psychopathology' are not qualitatively different in nature but placed on varying levels of the same continuum), the main aim of the present research was to explore whether there are individual differences in associative/semantic priming in people with different levels of epistemically unwarranted beliefs (EUB). Participants varying in paranormal, pseudoscientific and conspiracy endorsement completed a primed lexical decision task containing related prime-target words (e.g., bulb-light) and unrelated prime-target word

SUBMITTER: Huete-Perez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11813106 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature