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Tend to be tuned into and sustained by their own feelings and belief affects | Have ideas of reference; suspicious or paranoid ideation; inappropriate or constricted affect |
Are keenly observant of others and particularly sensitive to how others react to them | Have excessive society anxiety, e.g., extreme discomfort in social situations involving unfamiliar people |
Tend to be drawn to abstract and speculative thinking | Have odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subculture norms, e.g., superstition, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or a "sixth sense," and that others can feel their feelings |
Are receptive to and interested in the occult, the extrasensory, and the supernatural | Have unusual perceptual experiences, e.g., illusions, sensing the presence of a force or person not actually there (e.g., "I felt as if my dead mother were in the room with me") |
Tend to be indifferent to social convention, and have interesting and unusual life-styles | Are odd or eccentric in behavior or appearance, e.g., unkempt, unusual mannerisms, talk to self; odd speech (without loosening of association) or incoherent, e.g., speech that is impoverished, digressive, vague, or inappropriately abstract |
Usually are self-directed and independent, requiring few close relationships | Have no close friends or confidants (or only one) other than first-degree relatives |