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University of Zürich
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Papers

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McKay, R. (forthcoming). Motivated misbelief? Motivational processes in delusion and confabulation. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. (Also to appear in R. Langdon & M. Turner (Eds.) Delusion and confabulation: Overlapping or distinct psychopathologies of reality distortion. Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science series. Series edited by Coltheart, M. Psychology Press.)

McKay, R. (in press). Delusions. To appear in H. Pashler, T. Crane, M. Kinsbourne, F. Ferreira & R. Zemel (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of the Mind. SAGE.

McKay, R., Arciuli, J., Atkinson, A., Bennett, E. & Pheils, E. (in press). Lateralisation of self-esteem: An investigation using a dichotically presented auditory adaptation of the Implicit Association Test. Cortex.

McKay, R. & Dennett, D. (in press). The evolution of misbelief. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2009). "Sleights of mind": Delusions and self-deception. In T. Bayne & J. Fernandez (Eds.) Delusion and Self-Deception: Affective and Motivational Influences on Belief Formation (pp. 165-185). Hove: Psychology Press.

Baird, A. D. & McKay, R. T. (2008). Psychological factors in retrograde amnesia: Self-deception and a broken heart. Neurocase, 14(5), 400-413.

Langdon, R., McKay, R. & Coltheart, M. (2008). The cognitive neuropsychological understanding of persecutory delusions. In D. Freeman, R. Bentall & P. Garety (Eds.), Persecutory Delusions: Assessment, Theory, and Treatment (pp. 221-236). New York: Oxford University Press.

Coltheart, M., Langdon, R. & McKay, R. (2007). Schizophrenia and monothematic delusions. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33(3), 642-647. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. & Anderson, M. (2007). Reconciling psychodynamic and neurological perspectives on denial. Cortex, 43, 1102-1103. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. & Cipolotti, L. (2007). Attributional style in a case of Cotard delusion. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 349-359. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2007). Jumping to delusions? Paranoia, probabilistic reasoning and need for closure. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12(4), 362-376.

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2007). Models of misbelief: Integrating motivational and deficit theories of delusions. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 932-941.

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2007). The defensive function of persecutory delusions: An investigation using the Implicit Association Test. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12(1), 1-24. DOWNLOAD

Dennett, D. & McKay, R. (2006). A continuum of mindfulness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(4), 353-354. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2006). Need for closure, jumping to conclusions and decisiveness in delusion-prone individuals. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 194(6), 422-426.   DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2006). The Persecutory Ideation Questionnaire. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 194(8), 628-631. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2005). Paranoia, persecutory delusions and attributional biases. Psychiatry Research, 136, 233-245. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2005). "Sleights of mind": Delusions, defences and self-deception. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 10(4), 305-326. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. (2004). Hallucinating God? The cognitive neuropsychiatry of religious belief and experience. Evolution and Cognition, 10(1), 114-125.

Rhodes, G., Yoshikawa, S., Clark, A., Lee, K., McKay, R. & Akamatsu, S. (2001). Attractiveness of facial averageness and symmetry in non-Western cultures: In search of biologically based standards of beauty. Perception, 30, 611-625. Pion Limited, London.   DOWNLOAD

Rhodes, G., Zebrowitz, L. A., Clark, A., Kalick, S. M., Hightower, A. & McKay, R. (2001). Do facial averageness and symmetry signal health? Evolution & Human Behavior, 22(1), 31-46. DOWNLOAD