Paranoia is known to be associated with insecure attachment, with negative self-esteem as a mediator, but this pathway is insufficient to explain the paranoid individual’s beliefs about malevolent others. Mistrust is a likely additional factor as it is a core feature of paranoid thinking also associated with insecure attachment styles. In this study, we tested whether mistrust – operationalized as judgements about the trustworthiness of unfamiliar faces – constitutes a second pathway from insecure attachment to paranoia.

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不信任和消极自尊：从依恋风格到偏执狂的两条路径

众所周知，偏执与不安全的依恋有关，负面自尊作为中介，但这种途径不足以解释偏执个人对恶意他人的信念。不信任可能是一个额外的因素，因为它是偏执思维的核心特征，也与不安全的依恋风格有关。在这项研究中，我们测试了不信任——作为对陌生面孔的可信度的判断——是否构成了从不安全依恋到偏执狂的第二条途径。