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Collective Delusions

Collective Delusions is a psychological phenomenon denoting a shared false belief or irrational assumption among a group of individuals that persists despite contradictory evidence, distinguished from individual delusions by its social transmission and widespread endorsement within a community.

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Publications

1.5K

Citations

70

Authors

48

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

3

Variants

Mass Delusions

Parents

Publications

23

The sinister attribution error: Paranoid cognition and collective distrust in organizations

Roderick M. Kramer · Motivation and Emotion · 1994 · 363 citations

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Paranoid Cognition in Social Systems: Thinking and Acting in the Shadow of Doubt

Roderick M. Kramer · Personality and Social Psychology Review · 1998 · 306 citations

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Delusions of parasitosis*

Alan Lyell · British Journal of Dermatology · 1983 · 200 citations

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The influence of religious activity and polygenic schizophrenia risk on religious delusions in schizophrenia

Heike Anderson‐Schmidt, Katrin Gade, Dörthe Malzahn et al. · Schizophrenia Research · 2019 · 62 citations · Full text

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Religiosity and religious delusions in schizophrenia – An observational study in a Hindu population

Anand Mishra, Basudeb Das, Nishant Goyal · Asian Journal of Psychiatry · 2017 · 54 citations

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Authors

70

  1. RM
    Roderick M. Kramer

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 669 citations

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  2. KM
    Kenneth Mark Colby

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 97 citations

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  3. MM
    Markus M. Nöthen

    University of Bonn, Germany

    1 publications · 62 citations

    1

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  4. MR
    Marcella Rietschel

    Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany

    1 publications · 62 citations

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  5. NG
    Nishant Goyal

    Central Institute of Psychiatry, India

    1 publications · 54 citations

    1

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Institutions

48

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    669 citations

  2. Osnabrück University

    Osnabrück, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    62 citations

  3. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  4. Asklepios Fachklinikum Tiefenbrunn

    Rosdorf, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    62 citations

  5. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  6. Life & Brain (Germany)

    Bonn, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    124 citations

  7. University of Kansas

    Lawrence, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    108 citations

  8. Bezirkskrankenhaus Augsburg

    Augsburg, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    62 citations

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Venues

  1. PubMed

    Repository · 3 publications · 100 citations

    3

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  2. Journal of Abnormal Psychology

    2 publications · 97 citations

    2

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  3. Journal of Social Issues

    1 publications · 36 citations

    1

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  4. American Behavioral Scientist

    ABS · 1 publications · 50 citations

    1

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  5. Information and Software Technology

    1 publications · 34 citations

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