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Ben Smith

Researcher at University College London

Publications -  16
Citations -  1345

Ben Smith is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychosis & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 16 publications receiving 1207 citations. Previous affiliations of Ben Smith include North East London NHS Foundation Trust & King's College London.

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Emotion and psychosis: Links between depression, self-esteem, negative schematic beliefs and delusions and hallucinations

TL;DR: Mood, self-esteem and negative evaluative beliefs should be considered when conceptualising psychosis and designing interventions, and evidence for the role of emotion in schizophrenia spectrum-disorders is provided.
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The Brief Core Schema Scales (BCSS): psychometric properties and associations with paranoia and grandiosity in non-clinical and psychosis samples

TL;DR: Extreme negative evaluations of self and others appear to be characteristic of the appraisals of people with chronic psychosis, and are associated with symptoms of grandiosity and paranoia in the non-clinical population.
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Trauma and hallucinatory experience in psychosis

TL;DR: A theoretically informed phenomenological study that assessed the rates of four types of hypothesized association between traumas and hallucinations (direct, indirect, stress, and none) in 75 participants with nonaffective psychosis to report a theoretically informed study on the nature of the relationship between trauma and hallucinations.
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Negative Cognition, Depressed Mood, and Paranoia: A Longitudinal Pathway Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling

TL;DR: Evidence is provided for the role of negative cognition in the maintenance of paranoia, a role of central relevance, both to the design of psychological interventions and to the conceptualizations of psychosis.