Distortion in paranoid schizophrenia.
- 1 January 1953
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Consulting Psychology
- Vol. 17 (1) , 50-53
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0060377
Abstract
Subjects of this study were 27 paranoid schizophrenics and 27 normals. Each subject read 4 short stories describing hypothetical people and also a word-selection checklist. After reading each story, the subject did a motor task for 5 minutes. He was then asked to check all the words on the list he would use to describe the person in the story he had read. "Distortion" (the checking of a word which was inconsistent with the given trait pattern of a story) was significantly greater in the schizophrenic group and more variable than in the normal group. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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