Article
Expecting the unexpected: the paranoid style of belief updating across species
2020-02-25
Abstract excerpt
Paranoia is the belief that harm is intended by others. It may arise from selective pressures to infer and avoid social threats, particularly in ambiguous or changing circumstances. We propose that uncertainty may be sufficient to elicit learning differences in paranoid individuals, without social threat. We used reversal learning behaviour and computational modelling to estimate belief updating across individuals...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4fb448f4-c5cb-57dc-a132-62248bfeacf3
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.02.24.963298
