Hasty Decision-Making, Trust and Schizotypy: No Associations in a Non-Clinical Sample
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Introduction: Paranoid ideas, deficits in social cognition, and hasty decision-making are common among people within the psychosis spectrum. In social contexts, these impairments may contribute to biased trustworthiness decisions. Methods: In a sample of 64 healthy participants, we investigated the associations between trust, hasty decision-making, and psychometric schizotypy by employing the trust game, the beads task, the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ), and the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE).Results: A jumping to conclusions bias was observed in 45% of participants. No significant association was found between hasty decision-making and investments in the trust game. Furthermore, neither hasty decision-making nor trust behavior was significantly correlated with SPQ or O-LIFE scores.Discussion: Our results indicate that these decision-making processes appear to be largely unrelated in non-clinical samples. Future studies should investigate hasty decision-making and trust behavior in schizophrenia and schizotypy, in order to examine the robustness of the lack of associations and to explore whether different patterns of associations emerge in clinical populations.
Source: PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7210277308