Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2025
Abstract
Successfully navigating the social world requires making accurate predictions about others. Individual differences in emotion prediction–the ability to predict someone's subsequent emotion given their current emotional state–can lead to variability in social success. In this study (N = 1024) we found evidence that individuals with heightened schizotypy displayed worse emotion prediction accuracy. This difficulty with emotion prediction was associated with increased loneliness, diminished social support, and smaller social networks, partially mediating some of the social difficulties in individuals with heightened schizotypy. Individuals with heightened schizotypy showed disruptions to key sources of affective information, meaning they had less reliable information about how emotions work when making emotion predictions. Specifically, their own emotion experiences were less typical, and their perception of others’ emotions was less accurate. These findings highlight emotion prediction as a key social cognitive construct that should be considered in future research for individuals across the schizophrenia spectrum.
Keywords
emotion, schizophrenia-spectrum, schizotypy, social cognition, social functioning
Language
English
Publication Title
Schizophrenia Research
Rights
© 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Elyssa M. Barrick, Diana I. Tamir, Sarah Hope Lincoln, Predicting emotions across schizotypy levels, Schizophrenia Research, Volume 281, 2025, Pages 138-146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2025.05.002.
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