Abstract
We classified participants into delusion-prone and non-delusion-prone groups, further subdividing them into positive and negative delusional groups, and investigated the relationships between positive and negative delusions and memory. When positive adjectives were presented, negative adjectives associated with the positive adjectives were more likely to be activated in negative-delusion-prone participants, while when negative adjectives were presented, positive adjectives associated with the negative adjectives were more likely to be activated in positive-delusion-prone participants. However, the activation of learned items was still stronger than that for non-learned items in the immediate test. However, as time passed, participants were increasingly likely to depend on their internal condition (positive vs. negative) for recall, revealing that activation in the encoding process was not dependent on the learning phase of the delayed test. (126 words)
