Psychosis proneness, loneliness, and hallucinations in nonclinical individuals

Hallucinations occur along a continuum of normal functioning. Investigating the factors related to this experience in nonclinical individuals may offer important information for understanding the etiology of hallucinations in psychiatric populations. In this study we test the relationship between ps...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inPloS one Vol. 16; no. 5; p. e0251753
Main Authors Lincoln, Sarah Hope, Johnson, Taylor, Kim, Sarah, Edenbaum, Emma, Hooley, Jill M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco Public Library of Science 28.05.2021
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects
Alzheimer's disease
Auditory perception
Biology and Life Sciences
Caffeine
Christmas
Data analysis
Editing
Engineering and Technology
False alarms
Hallucinations
Hallucinations and illusions
Health risks
Hearing
Loneliness
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mental disorders
Noise
Psychological aspects
Psychology
Psychosis
Reviews
Risk factors
Schizophrenia
Signal detection
Social Sciences
Speech
Stress
White noise
United States
United States > US
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Hallucinations occur along a continuum of normal functioning. Investigating the factors related to this experience in nonclinical individuals may offer important information for understanding the etiology of hallucinations in psychiatric populations. In this study we test the relationship between psychosis proneness, loneliness, and auditory hallucinations in a nonclinical sample using the White Christmas paradigm. Seventy-six undergraduate students participated in this study. We found that slightly more than half of our participants endorsed a hallucinatory experience during the White Christmas paradigm. However, we did not observe a relationship between the number of hallucinatory experiences and schizotypy, propensity to hallucinate, or loneliness. Moreover, there were no differences on these measures between individuals who reported hearing a hallucination during the White Christmas paradigm relative to those who did not. Thus, there may be other contextual factors not investigated in this study that might clarify the mechanism by which auditory hallucinations are experienced in a nonclinical population.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-2
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Undefined-1
ObjectType-Feature-3
content type line 23
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0251753