Hasty Decision-Making, Trust and Schizotypy: No Associations in a Non-Clinical Sample
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.
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BibTeX
@misc{stumpp2026hasty,
title = {{Hasty Decision-Making, Trust and Schizotypy: No Associations in a Non-Clinical Sample}},
author = {Sarah Stumpp and Sarah Tholl and Christian Andreas Sojer and Stephanie N.L. Schmidt and Daniela Mier},
howpublished = {PsyArXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.31234/osf.io/f2srv_v1},
url = {https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/f2srv_v1/},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Hasty Decision-Making, Trust and Schizotypy: No Associations in a Non-Clinical Sample
AU - Sarah Stumpp
AU - Sarah Tholl
AU - Christian Andreas Sojer
AU - Stephanie N.L. Schmidt
AU - Daniela Mier
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/07
PB - PsyArXiv
DO - 10.31234/osf.io/f2srv_v1
UR - https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/f2srv_v1/
AB - 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.
ER -