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SUBMITTER: Simonsen A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353936 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simonsen Arndis A Fusaroli Riccardo R Skewes Joshua Charles JC Roepstorff Andreas A Mors Ole O Bliksted Vibeke V Campbell-Meiklejohn Daniel D
Scientific reports 20190130 1
Schizophrenia is often associated with distinctive or odd social behaviours. Previous work suggests this could be due to a general reduction in conformity; however, this work only assessed the tendency to publicly agree with others, which may involve a number of different mechanisms. In this study, we specifically investigated whether patients display a reduced tendency to adopt other people's opinions (socially learned attitude change). We administered a computerized conformity task, assumed to ...[more]