Animistic Thinking in Psychotic versus Conduct-Disordered Hospitalized Adolescents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13656290 |
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| Authors | Jeffrey A Atlas (Bronx Children's Psychiatric Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University, corresponding author), Alec L Miller (Yeshiva University), William F Arsenio (Yeshiva University) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 611-614 |
| Publication date | 1993-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1993.73.2.611 |
| PMID | 8234613 |
| OpenAlex | W2035131748 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
25 adolescents showing a Psychotic-spectrum Disorder were compared with 24 adolescents showing Conduct Disorder on a task eliciting reasons for attributing life to an ambiguous pictorial stimulus (dough on a beach). Consistent with expectations from earlier research, the psychotic adolescents showed greater modes of animistic thinking (attributions of life to nonlife forms) than conduct-disordered youth, associated with theorized merging between self and the nonhuman environment. Implications are discussed
Attribution · Conduct disorder · Developmental psychology · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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