Negative belief-updating bias for positive daily life events in individuals with schizophrenia and social anhedonia.
Cogn Neuropsychiatry
; 27(4): 237-254, 2022 07.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Low-pleasure beliefs are found in both patients with schizophrenia (SZ) and individuals with high social anhedonia (SocAnh), and are associated with anhedonia. However, little is known about the development and maintenance of these low-pleasure beliefs in the clinical and subclinical populations. We investigated whether patients with SZ and individuals with high SocAnh have deficits in updating their beliefs, which may contribute to the understanding of the formation and maintenance of low-pleasure beliefs.METHODS:
The Modified Belief Updating Task was administered to assess belief-updating patterns in a clinical sample (36 SZ patients and 30 matched controls) and a subclinical sample (27 individuals with high SocAnh and 30 matched controls).RESULTS:
We found that compared with controls, SZ patients updated their beliefs to a greater extent and more frequently when receiving bad news for positive life events, but not for negative life events. Moreover, individuals with high SocAnh also exhibited similar patterns in updating their beliefs for positive life events after controlling depressive symptoms.CONCLUSIONS:
Our findings suggest that negative belief-updating patterns for positive events may play an important role in the formation and maintenance of low-pleasure beliefs in patients with SZ and individuals with high SocAnh.Palavras-chave
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Esquizofrenia
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Anedonia
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cogn Neuropsychiatry
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article