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Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Clinical Neurology, Psychiatry, Neurosciences & Neurology, Personality, aberrant salience, psychotic symptoms, antipsychotic medication, PID-5, NEGATIVE-SYNDROME-SCALE, PERSONALITY-DISORDERS, ATTENTIONAL BIAS, 5-FACTOR MODEL, PERSECUTORY DELUSIONS, ABERRANT SALIENCE, REASONING BIASES, DAVOS ASSESSMENT, SCHIZOPHRENIA, DSM-5, Antipsychotic Agents, Bias, Cognition, Humans, Mental Disorders, Personality Inventory, Psychotic Disorders, Self Report, SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM DISORDERS, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER, DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1701 Psychology, 1702 Cognitive Sciences, 3202 Clinical sciences, 5203 Clinical and health psychology

Abstract:

We investigated the relation between subjective cognitive biases measured with the Dutch Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases (DACOBS-NL) and (1) the presence of a psychotic versus nonpsychotic psychiatric disorder, (2) the current dose of antipsychotic medication and current psychotic symptoms, and (3) the Personality Inventory for the DSM-5 (PID-5) Psychoticism personality trait. Results showed that DACOBS-NL subjective cognitive biases (1) were equally present in patients diagnosed with nonpsychotic disorders compared with patients with a psychotic disorder, (2) could not be explained by the current dose of antipsychotic medication, nor by current psychotic symptoms, and (3) significantly correlated with all PID-5 Personality domains. Moreover, in predicting membership of the psychotic versus nonpsychotic psychiatric disorder group, the addition of the PID-5 domains in step 2 rendered the contribution of the DACOBS-NL subjective cognitive biases in step 1 nonsignificant. Further research is needed to clarify the interplay between cognitive biases and aberrant salience in the prediction of psychotic disorders.