Counterfactual Reasoning Deficits in Schizophrenia Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Counterfactual thinking is a specific type of conditional reasoning that enables the generation of mental simulations of alternatives to past factual events. Although it has been broadly studied in the general population, research on schizophrenia is still scarce. The aim of the current study was to further examine counterfactual reasoning in this illness.

Methods

Forty schizophrenia patients and 40 controls completed a series of tests that assessed the influence of the "causal order effect" on counterfactual thinking, and the ability to generate counterfactual thoughts and counterfactually derive inferences from a hypothetical situation. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as neurocognitive variables, were also examined.

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SUBMITTER: Contreras F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4734710 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature