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Illusory Control in Schizophrenia

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In this article, the authors examined the illusion of control bias in patients with schizophrenia and found that positive symptoms in schizophrenia often deal with themes of control, while negative symptoms often do not.
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IntroductionPositive symptoms in schizophrenia often deal with themes of control. For the first time, the “illusion of control” bias was examined in patients with schizophrenia.MethodsA total of 32...

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TL;DR: Research suggesting that certain illusions may be adaptive for mental health and well-being is reviewed, examining evidence that a set of interrelated positive illusions—namely, unrealistically positive self-evaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism—can serve a wide variety of cognitive, affective, and social functions.
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TL;DR: For instance, this article argued that people treat chance events as controllable and treat success in skill tasks as a fortuitous happening, whereas success in luck or chance activities is apparently uncontrollable.
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