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Professor Charles Fernyhough's Outputs (163)

Dialogic thinking. (2009)
Book Chapter
Fernyhough, C. (2009). Dialogic thinking. In A. Winsler, C. Fernyhough, & I. Montero (Eds.), Private speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal self-regulation. Cambridge University Press

Brief report: Inner speech impairment in children with autism is associated with greater nonverbal than verbal skills. (2009)
Journal Article
Lidstone, J., Fernyhough, C., Meins, E., & Whitehouse, A. (2009). Brief report: Inner speech impairment in children with autism is associated with greater nonverbal than verbal skills. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1222-1225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-009-0731-6

We present a new analysis of Whitehouse, Maybery, and Durkin’s (2006, Experiment 3) data on inner speech in children with autism (CWA). Because inner speech development is thought to depend on linguistically mediated social interaction, we hypothesiz... Read More about Brief report: Inner speech impairment in children with autism is associated with greater nonverbal than verbal skills..

Fear, worry, and ritualistic behavior in childhood: Developmental trends and interrelations. (2009)
Journal Article
Laing, S., Fernyhough, C., Turner, M., & Freeston, M. (2009). Fear, worry, and ritualistic behavior in childhood: Developmental trends and interrelations. Infant and Child Development, 18(4), 351-366. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.627

Previous studies of childhood fear, worry, and ritualistic behaviour have been limited by restricted age ranges, narrow ranges of anxiety phenomena, non-comparable methodologies, and assessment of typical behaviour within a pathological context. Cont... Read More about Fear, worry, and ritualistic behavior in childhood: Developmental trends and interrelations..

Young children’s trust in their mothers’ claims: Longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy (2009)
Journal Article
Corriveau, K., Harris, P., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Arnott, B., Elliott, L., …De Rosnay, M. (2009). Young children’s trust in their mothers’ claims: Longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy. Child Development, 80(3), 750-761. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01295.x

In a longitudinal study of attachment, children (N = 147) aged 50 and 61 months heard their mother and a stranger make conflicting claims. In 2 tasks, the available perceptual cues were equally consistent with either person’s claim but children gener... Read More about Young children’s trust in their mothers’ claims: Longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy.

The phenomenology of inner speech: Comparison of schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and healthy controls (2009)
Journal Article
Langdon, R., Jones, S., Connaughton, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2009). The phenomenology of inner speech: Comparison of schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and healthy controls. Psychological Medicine, 39(4), 655-663. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291708003978

Background Despite the popularity of inner-speech theories of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), little is known about the phenomenological qualities of inner speech in patients with schizophrenia who experience AVHs (Sz-AVHs), or how this compar... Read More about The phenomenology of inner speech: Comparison of schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and healthy controls.

Caffeine, stress, and proneness to psychosis-like experiences: a preliminary investigation. (2009)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2009). Caffeine, stress, and proneness to psychosis-like experiences: a preliminary investigation. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(4), 562-564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.032

In diathesis–stress models of psychosis, cortisol released in response to stressors is proposed to play a role in the development of psychotic experiences. Individual differences in cortisol response to stressors are therefore likely to play a role i... Read More about Caffeine, stress, and proneness to psychosis-like experiences: a preliminary investigation..

In a dark time: Development, validation, and correlates of the Durham Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations Questionnaire. (2009)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Fernyhough, C., & Meads, D. (2009). In a dark time: Development, validation, and correlates of the Durham Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations Questionnaire. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(1), 30-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.08.021

One factor limiting research involving hypnagogic and hypnopompic (H&H) hallucinations is the lack of a brief, valid and reliable self-report measure of such experiences. The present paper reports on the development of the Durham Hypnagogic and Hypno... Read More about In a dark time: Development, validation, and correlates of the Durham Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations Questionnaire..

Rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, and hallucination proneness: Towards a new model. (2009)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2009). Rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, and hallucination proneness: Towards a new model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47(1), 54-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2008.09.008

Although rumination has been proposed to play an important role in the creation of hallucinations, direct empirical tests of this proposal have not yet been performed. Employing a distinction between ruminative and reflective self-consciousness, we s... Read More about Rumination, reflection, intrusive thoughts, and hallucination proneness: Towards a new model..

Social predictors of psychotic experiences: Specificity and psychological mechanisms (2008)
Journal Article
Bentall, R., & Fernyhough, C. (2008). Social predictors of psychotic experiences: Specificity and psychological mechanisms. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 34(6), 1012-1020. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbn103

It has become widely accepted that the psychotic disorders are endpoints of atypical developmental trajectories indexed by abnormal emotional and cognitive development early in life. However, the role of environmental factors in determining these tra... Read More about Social predictors of psychotic experiences: Specificity and psychological mechanisms.

A new spin on the Wheel of Fortune: Priming of action-authorship judgements and relation to psychosis-like experiences. (2008)
Journal Article
Jones, S., de-Wit, L., Fernyhough, C., & Meins, E. (2008). A new spin on the Wheel of Fortune: Priming of action-authorship judgements and relation to psychosis-like experiences. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(3), 576-586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2007.08.008

The proposal that there is an illusion of conscious will has been supported by findings that priming of stimulus location in a task requiring judgements of action-authorship can enhance participants’ experience of agency. We attempted to replicate fi... Read More about A new spin on the Wheel of Fortune: Priming of action-authorship judgements and relation to psychosis-like experiences..

Thought suppression and persecutory delusion-like beliefs in a non-clinical sample. (2008)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2008). Thought suppression and persecutory delusion-like beliefs in a non-clinical sample. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13(4), 281-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546800802087830

Introduction. Thought suppression may play a role in the formation and/or maintenance of persecutory delusions, although this possibility has not yet been empirically studied. We investigated thought suppression levels in relation to the presence of... Read More about Thought suppression and persecutory delusion-like beliefs in a non-clinical sample..

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.