Data for the Paper "Inflexible Social Inference in Individuals with Subclinical Persecutory Delusional Tendencies"

In this study, we examined the association between subclinical PD and social inference, testing the prediction that proneness to PD is related to altered social inference and beliefs about others’ intentions. We included 151 participants who scored on opposite ends of Freeman’s Paranoia Checklist (PCL).

The participants performed a probabilistic advice-taking task with a dynamically changing social context (volatility) under one of two experimental frames. These frames differentially emphasized possible reasons behind unhelpful advice: they either highlighted (i) the adviser’s possible intentions (dispositional frame) or (ii) the rules of the game (situational frame). Our design was thus 2x2 factorial (high vs. low delusional tendencies, dispositional vs. situational frame).