Attitude Change and the Schizophrenic

Gill, Wayne

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“…In fact, patients displayed at least similar or even enhanced levels of attitude change towards group opinion compared to healthy individuals. The results suggest that patients with schizophrenia – at least when medicated – cannot be characterized as suffering from a general decline in conformity behaviour as previous literature would suggest 1–4 . Reduced conformity may be restricted to situations that require deliberate considerations as to whether to conform to social pressure or not (public conformity).…”

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“…Schizophrenia is often associated with distinctive or odd social behaviours. Already in the 1930s it was suggested that this could be due to a decline in responsiveness to social stimuli and studies from the 1960s and 70 s partly confirmed this hypothesis, indicating that patients with schizophrenia show reduced conformity to the expressed opinions of others 1–4 . Conformity refers to the act of changing one’s behaviour, opinions or beliefs to match or become more similar to those of others 5,6 .…”

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Socially Learned Attitude Change is not reduced in Medicated Patients with Schizophrenia

Simonsen

Fusaroli

Skewes

et al. 2019

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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 rely on reinforcement learning circuits, to 32 patients with schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder and 39 matched controls. Each participant rated 153 faces for trustworthiness. After each rating, they were immediately shown the opinion of a group. After approximately 1 hour, participants were unexpectedly asked to rate all the faces again. We compared the degree of attitude change towards group opinion in patients and controls. Patients presented equal or more social influence on attitudes than controls. This effect may have been medication induced, as increased conformity was seen with higher antipsychotic dose. The results suggest that there is not a general decline in conformity in medicated patients with schizophrenia and that previous findings of reduced conformity are likely related to mechanisms other than reinforcement based social influence on attitudes.

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Socially Learned Attitude Change is not reduced in Medicated Patients with Schizophrenia

Simonsen

Fusaroli

Skewes

et al. 2019

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Conformity and psychopathology: A comparative study of conformity behaviors in manic-depressive, paranoid schizophrenic and normal populations

Marsella

1975

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Several theorists have speculated that schizophrenia constitutes a disorder in which there is minimal motivation to conform to social pressures, while manic-depressive psychoses represent disorders in which there is maximal motivation to conform to social pressures. However, there have been few experimental tests of these speculations, and those that have been conducted generally have yielded conflicting results because of methodological inconsistencies and limitations. The present investigation examined conformity behavior of male and female manic-depressives (MD), paranoid schizophrenics (PS), and normals (N) on two conformity tasks: attitude change and perceptual judgment. It was hypothesized that manic depressives would conform more than normals, who would conform more than paranoid schizophrenics (MD less than N less than PS). Results indicated that manic-depressives and normals conformed significantly more than paranoid schizophrenics, but did not differ from each other on either of the conformity tasks. Thus, the hypothesis was supported only partially. The results do not support the view that manic-depressive psychoses constitute disorders in which there is maximal motivation to conform to social pressures; however, the results do support the view that schizophrenia represents a disorder in which there is minimum motivation to conform. The results are discussed in terms of their implication for the uses of interpersonal psychotherapy forms.

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The effects of vicarious reinforcement on modeling by schizophrenic hospital patients

Keyes¹,

Vane

1975

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Adult male schizophrenic Ss were exposed to a peer model under conditions of positive vicarious reinforcement, negative vicarious reinforcement, and no vicarious reinforcement. The degree to which the Ss imitated the behaviors of the model was not affected by the vicarious reinforcement, although the Ss did emit significantly more of the dependent measure behaviors than did a group of control Ss who had seen no model. The failure of the Ss to respond to the vicarious reinforcement was seen in terms of the inability of schizophrenics to attend to relevant detail.

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Attitude Change and the Schizophrenic

Cited by 3 publications

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Socially Learned Attitude Change is not reduced in Medicated Patients with Schizophrenia

Socially Learned Attitude Change is not reduced in Medicated Patients with Schizophrenia

Conformity and psychopathology: A comparative study of conformity behaviors in manic-depressive, paranoid schizophrenic and normal populations

The effects of vicarious reinforcement on modeling by schizophrenic hospital patients

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