title: The relation between schizotypy and early attention to rejecting interactions: The influence of neuroticism.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Schizotypy relates to rejection sensitivity (anxiety reflecting an expectancy of social exclusion) and neuroticism (excessive evaluation of negative emotions). Positive schizotypy (e.g., perceptual aberrations and odd beliefs) and negative schizotypy (e.g., social and physical anhedonia) could relate to altered attention to rejection because of neuroticism.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-one healthy individuals were assessed on positive and negative schizotypy and neuroticism, and event-related potentials during rejecting, accepting and neutral scenes. Participants were categorised into high, moderate and low neuroticism groups. Using temporo-spatial principal components analyses, P200 (peak latency = 290 ms) and P300 amplitudes (peak latency = 390 ms) were measured, reflecting mobilisation of attention and early attention, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Scalp-level and cortical source analysis revealed elevated fronto-parietal N300/P300 amplitude and P200-related dorsal anterior cingulate current density during rejection than acceptance/neutral scenes. Positive schizotypy related inversely to parietal P200 amplitude during rejection. Negative schizotypy related positively to P200 middle occipital current density. Negative schizotypy related positively to parietal P300, where the association was stronger in high and moderate, than low, neuroticism groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Positive and negative schizotypy relate divergently to attention to rejection. Positive schizotypy attenuates, but negative schizotypy increases rejection-related mobilisation of attention. Negative schizotypy increases early attention to rejection partly due to elevated neuroticism.
authors.affiliation: a Division of Psychology , School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham , UK .
authors.forename: Preethi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Premkumar
authors.affiliation: b King's College London, Department of Psychology , Institute of Psychiatry , London , UK .|c NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust , London , UK .
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Onwumere
authors.affiliation: d Facultad De Psicología, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid , Madrid , Spain , and.|e Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense De Madrid , Madrid , Spain.
authors.forename: Jacobo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Albert
authors.affiliation: d Facultad De Psicología, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid , Madrid , Spain , and.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kessel
authors.affiliation: b King's College London, Department of Psychology , Institute of Psychiatry , London , UK .|c NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust , London , UK .
authors.forename: Veena
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kumari
authors.affiliation: b King's College London, Department of Psychology , Institute of Psychiatry , London , UK .|c NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust , London , UK .
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kuipers
authors.affiliation: d Facultad De Psicología, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid , Madrid , Spain , and.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carretié
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D059445:Anhedonia; D001007:Anxiety; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D000075384:Neuroticism; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012929:Psychological Distance; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Anxiety; attention; event-related brain potentials; personality; psychosis