Persecutory (paranoid) delusions are a frequently observed clinical phenomenon. In recent
years, an increasing volume of research has attempted to explain these types of beliefs in …

This paper explores the ways in which community wellbeing is, and could be, related to
individual subjective wellbeing by mapping current practice, teasing out the assumptions …

Aims The review of reviews had three aims:(i) to synthesize the available evidence on
interventions to improve college and university students' mental health and wellbeing;(ii) to …

It has been proposed that certain psychotic symptoms associated with schizophrenia reflect
a deficit in the ability to appreciate other people's mental states (Frith, 1992). This notion is …

Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to attribute mental states to others, and empathy, the ability
to infer emotional experiences, are important processes in social cognition. Brain imaging …

Mentalizing ability was studied in 46 symptomatic schizophrenic patients and 44 non-
symptomatic controls. Subjects heard six stories and simultaneously were shown simple …

Empathy has been inconsistently defined and inadequately measured. This research aimed
to produce a new and rigorously developed questionnaire. Exploratory (n 1= 640) and …

We investigated cerebral activity in six normal volunteers using PET to explore the
hypothesis that the right hemisphere has a specific role in the interpretation of figurative …

It has been suggested that certain characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia reflect a specific
deficit in the ability to attribute mental states to others ('mentalizing'). Patients with negative …

Context Paranoid delusions are a common symptom of a range of psychotic disorders. A
variety of psychological mechanisms have been implicated in their cause, including a …