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Professor Charles Fernyhough's Outputs (149)

Theory of mind, schizotypy, and persecutory ideation in young adults. (2008)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., Jones, S., Whittle, C., Waterhouse, J., & Bentall, R. (2008). Theory of mind, schizotypy, and persecutory ideation in young adults. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13(3), 233-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546800801936516

Introduction. Previous studies of the relation between theory of mind (ToM) and schizotypy have suggested that ToM deficits may be associated with positive signs (e.g., hallucination- and delusion-like experiences). Good theoretical reasons exist to... Read More about Theory of mind, schizotypy, and persecutory ideation in young adults..

Attachment dimensions and schizotypy in a non-clinical sample. (2008)
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Meins, E., Jones, S., Fernyhough, C., Hurndall, S., & Koronis, P. (2008). Attachment dimensions and schizotypy in a non-clinical sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(4), 1000-1011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.026

Attachment has been proposed to relate to adult psychopathology, although strong evidence for this relation has not been documented. This study investigated peer attachment and parental bonding in relation to schizotypy in healthy adults (N = 154). P... Read More about Attachment dimensions and schizotypy in a non-clinical sample..

A message in the medium? Assessing the reliability of psychopathology e-questionnaires. (2008)
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Jones, S., Fernyhough, C., de-Wit, L., & Meins, E. (2008). A message in the medium? Assessing the reliability of psychopathology e-questionnaires. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(2), 349-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.08.014

Internet-based questionnaires (e-questionnaires) have become widely used in psychopathology research, but there is currently little evidence on their reliability as compared with pen-and-paper equivalents. Data from separate samples of young adults c... Read More about A message in the medium? Assessing the reliability of psychopathology e-questionnaires..

Imaginary companions and young children’s responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: Implications for typical and atypical development (2007)
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Fernyhough, C., Bland, K., Meins, E., & Coltheart, M. (2007). Imaginary companions and young children’s responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: Implications for typical and atypical development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(11), 1094-1101. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01789.x

Background: Previous research has reported a link between imaginary companions (ICs) in middle childhood and the perception of verbal material in ambiguous auditory stimuli. These findings have been interpreted in terms of commonalities in the cognit... Read More about Imaginary companions and young children’s responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: Implications for typical and atypical development.

Prospects for a cognitive-developmental account of psychotic experiences. (2007)
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Bentall, R., Fernyhough, C., Morrison, A., Lewis, S., & Corcoran, R. (2007). Prospects for a cognitive-developmental account of psychotic experiences. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 46(2), 155-173. https://doi.org/10.1348/014466506x123011

Purpose It has recently been recognized that psychosis represents the end-point of abnormal developmental pathways. The neurodevelopmental framework, within which this observation has typically been interpreted, has a number of limitations, particula... Read More about Prospects for a cognitive-developmental account of psychotic experiences..

Thought as action: Inner speech, self-monitoring, and auditory verbal hallucinations. (2007)
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Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). Thought as action: Inner speech, self-monitoring, and auditory verbal hallucinations. Consciousness and Cognition, 16(2), 391-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2005.12.003

Passivity experiences in schizophrenia are thought to be due to a failure in a neurocognitive action self-monitoring system (NASS). Drawing on the assumption that inner speech is a form of action, a recent model of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH... Read More about Thought as action: Inner speech, self-monitoring, and auditory verbal hallucinations..

Preschoolers’ understanding of multiple orientations to reality: The Adjectives task. (2007)
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Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). Preschoolers’ understanding of multiple orientations to reality: The Adjectives task. Cognitive Development, 22(2), 289-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.10.008

Preschoolers’ understanding that an object can be accurately described using two different non-synonymous words was investigated using a task in which children (N = 36) had to judge which of two animals had provided correct adjectival labels for a se... Read More about Preschoolers’ understanding of multiple orientations to reality: The Adjectives task..

The Roles of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem in Hallucination- and Delusion-Proneness in a Non-Clinical Sample (2007)
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Jones, S. R., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). The Roles of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem in Hallucination- and Delusion-Proneness in a Non-Clinical Sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(5), 1087-1097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.03.002

Possessing either an external locus of control (LOC) or low self-esteem (SE) has been demonstrated prospectively to predict schizophrenia onset. This may be due to the consequences of these qualities for stress perception and resultant cortisol relea... Read More about The Roles of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem in Hallucination- and Delusion-Proneness in a Non-Clinical Sample.

Getting Vygotskian about theory of mind: Mediation, dialogue, and the development of social understanding (2007)
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Fernyhough, C. (2008). Getting Vygotskian about theory of mind: Mediation, dialogue, and the development of social understanding. Developmental Review, 28(2), 225-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2007.03.001

The ideas of Vygotsky [Vygotsky, L. S. (1987). Thinking and speech. In The collected works of L. S. Vygotsky, (Vol. 1). New York: Plenum. (Original work published 1934.)] have been increasingly influential in accounting for social–environmental influ... Read More about Getting Vygotskian about theory of mind: Mediation, dialogue, and the development of social understanding.

Reliability of factorial structure of the Peters et al. delusions inventory (PDI-21). (2007)
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Jones, S. R., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). Reliability of factorial structure of the Peters et al. delusions inventory (PDI-21). Personality and Individual Differences, 43(4), 647-656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.01.018

The 21-item version of the Peters et al. Delusions Inventory (PDI-21) is a commonly used tool to measure delusional ideation in the normal population. Two recent principal component analyses have concluded that the PDI-21 has a seven-factor structure... Read More about Reliability of factorial structure of the Peters et al. delusions inventory (PDI-21)..

Metaphors of mind. (2006)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C. (2006). Metaphors of mind. Psychologist (Leicester), 19, 356-358

A new look at the neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia: The primacy of social-evaluative and uncontrollable situations (2006)
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Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2006). A new look at the neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia: The primacy of social-evaluative and uncontrollable situations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 33(5), 1171-1177. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbl058

The neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia proposes that stress, through its effects on cortisol production, acts upon a preexisting vulnerability to trigger and/or worsen the symptoms of schizophrenia. In line with its focus on the neurobiol... Read More about A new look at the neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia: The primacy of social-evaluative and uncontrollable situations.

Mind-mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood (2006)
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Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Johnson, F., & Lidstone, J. (2006). Mind-mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24(1), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1348/026151005x80174

Children's use of internal-state language during 2 tasks (book narration and describing a best friend) was investigated in a sample (N=38) of 7- to 9-year-olds. Proportional use of internal-state talk on the two tasks was highly positively correlated... Read More about Mind-mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood.

Neural correlates of inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: A critical review and theoretical integration (2006)
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Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2006). Neural correlates of inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: A critical review and theoretical integration. Clinical Psychology Review, 27(2), 140-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2006.10.001

The neuroimaging and neurophysiological literature on inner speech in healthy participants and those who experience auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) is reviewed. AVH-hearers in remission and controls do not differ neurologically on tasks involvi... Read More about Neural correlates of inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: A critical review and theoretical integration.

Sociocultural influences on the development of verbal mediation: Private speech and phonological recoding in Saudi Arabian and British samples (2006)
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Al-Namlah, A., Fernyhough, C., & Meins, E. (2006). Sociocultural influences on the development of verbal mediation: Private speech and phonological recoding in Saudi Arabian and British samples. Developmental Psychology, 42(1), 117-131. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.42.1.117

Cross-national stability in private speech (PS) and short-term memory was investigated in Saudi Arabian (n = 63) and British (n = 58) 4- to 8-year-olds. Assumed differences in child-adult interaction between the 2 nationality groups led to prediction... Read More about Sociocultural influences on the development of verbal mediation: Private speech and phonological recoding in Saudi Arabian and British samples.

Private speech on an executive task: Relations with task difficulty and task performance (2005)
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Fernyhough, C., & Fradley, E. (2005). Private speech on an executive task: Relations with task difficulty and task performance. Cognitive Development, 20(1), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2004.11.002

Measures of private speech and task performance were obtained for a sample of 46 5- and 6-year-olds engaged on a mechanical version of the Tower of London (ToL) task. Two different sets of four puzzles of increasing difficulty were attempted on two o... Read More about Private speech on an executive task: Relations with task difficulty and task performance.