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PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
卷 218, 期 3, 页码 348-352出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.12.014
关键词
Paranoia; Height; Social rank; Virtual reality
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资金
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- ERC [TRAVERSE 227985]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
- Medical Research Council [G0902308] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0902308] Funding Source: UKRI
Mistrust of others may build upon perceptions of the self as vulnerable, consistent with an association of paranoia with perceived lower social rank. Height is a marker of social status and authority. Therefore we tested the effect of manipulating height, as a proxy for social rank, on paranoia. Height was manipulated within an immersive virtual reality simulation. Sixty females who reported paranoia experienced a virtual reality train ride twice: at their normal and reduced height. Paranoia and social comparison were assessed. Reducing a person's height resulted in more negative views of the self in comparison with other people and increased levels of paranoia. The increase in paranoia was fully mediated by changes in social comparison. The study provides the first demonstration that reducing height in a social situation increases the occurrence of paranoia. The findings indicate that negative social comparison is a cause of mistrust. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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