Individual differences in negative priming

Relations with schizotypal personality traits

Bibliographic Data

ID5267540
AuthorsAnthony Beech, Anthony R Beech (0000-0002-6681-802X, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Gordon Claridge (University of Oxford)
Year1987
Volume78
Issue3
Pages349-356
Publication date1987-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.2044-8295.1987.tb02252.x
PMID3620793
OpenAlexW2140998004
LanguageIT
Citations received8

A study is reported of normal subjects, selected for degree of schizotypal personality traits, on a cognitive task designed to measure, in a negative priming paradigm, the extent to which they differed in interference and presumed inhibitory effects on performance. The main individual differences measure used - a new scale of schizotypy - showed, as predicted, a significant correlation with negative priming. The correlation with a measure of 'interference' was non-significant but in the expected direction. The results are judged relevant to research implicating a weakening of inhibitory selective mechanisms in schizophrenia and to models in abnormal psychology proposing a continuum between normal and abnormal cognitive function. As such, they suggest a soundly based theoretical approach to the analysis of the individual variations in information processing commonly observed in general cognitive psychology

Big Five personality traits · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Correlation · Developmental psychology · Negative priming · Personality · Priming (agriculture) · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) · Schizotypal personality disorder · Schizotypy · Selective attention · Mental Health Research Topics · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment · Social Psychology

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