Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The health crisis caused by COVID-19 has led many countries to opt for social quarantine of the population. During this quarantine, communication systems have been characterized by disintermediation, the acceleration of digitization and an infodemic (excess and saturation of information). The following debate arises: Do the levels related to the psychotic phenotype and pseudoscientific beliefs related to the interpretation of information vary before and after social quarantine?

Objectives

This research aims to examine the psychological effects of social quarantine on the psychotic phenotype and pseudoscientific beliefs-experiences of the general nonclinical population. The following hypothesis was posed: social quarantine alters the levels of magical thinking, pse

SUBMITTER: Escola-Gascon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7391050 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature