Paranoia and Threat Appraisal: How Antisemitism-Linked Beliefs Can Reflect Stress, Bias, and Anxiety
Paranoia is a symptom cluster characterized by persistent, often unfounded beliefs or interpretations that others intend harm, exploitation, or mistreatment. In clinical contexts, paranoia is not simply “being suspicious”; it is a relatively stable pattern of threat appraisal that can distort perception, reasoning, and social inference. While paranoia can occur transiently under stress or substances,… Read More »