News Finding: New paper by some great MSc students (Vanessa Saalfeld &amp; Zeina Ramadan, joint 1st authors), ⁦@username⁩ &amp; yours truly. Experimentally induces social threat causes paranoid thinking.  
Paper Finding: Our study also raises questions about whether paranoia depends on qualitatively different social reasoning or instead reflects typical social information processing with a lower threshold for social threat detection.
News Context: New paper by some great MSc students (Vanessa Saalfeld &amp; Zeina Ramadan, joint 1st authors), ⁦@username⁩ &amp; yours truly. Experimentally induces social threat causes paranoid thinking.  
Paper Context: Ideally, future studies would challenge this hypothesis with other salient group affiliations. Our study also raises questions about whether paranoia depends on qualitatively different social reasoning or instead reflects typical social information processing with a lower threshold for social threat detection. ), suggesting that harmful intent attributions should become increasingly out of proportion as pre-existing paranoia increases.