Razavi, Sepehr and Moutoussis, Michael and Dayan, Peter and Raihani, Nichola and Bell, Vaughan and Barnby, Joseph (2025) Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al. Trends in Cognitive Science. ISSN 1364-6613
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Corlett et al. criticise a ‘social turn’ in delusions research according to which paranoia is a result of a dysfunction in social cognition [1]. Instead, they propose that, despite appearances, paranoia is solely the result of alterations to domain-general responses to uncertainty. We appreciate the effort to find a parsimonious explanation, and we agree that domain-general processes play an important role in understanding delusions. However, we reject the characterisation of previous work by us and others and question whether the dichotomies set up by Corlett et al. are helpful.
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| Keywords: | social cognition, paranoia, computational psychiatry, cognitive science, domain-specific, domain-general | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry |
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| Depositing User: | Sepehr Razavi | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2025 11:03 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2025 11:03 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 26849 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Trends in Cognitive Science | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.08.008 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1016/j.tics.2025.08.008 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry |
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| Date: | September 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1364-6613 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26849 |
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