Psychoticism
Psychoticism is one of a three traits used by a psychologist Hans Eysenck in his P–E–N model psychoticism, extraversion together with neuroticism model of personality.
Psychoticism is one of a three traits used by a psychologist Hans Eysenck in his P–E–N model psychoticism, extraversion together with neuroticism model of personality.
Psychoticism is believed to be associated with levels of dopamine. Other biological correlates of psychoticism increase low conditionability together with low levels of monoamine oxidase; beta-hydroxylase, cortisol, norepinephrine in cerebrospinal fluid also appear relevant to psychoticism level.
Eysenck's theoretical basis for the model was the notion of Einheitspsychosen unitary psychosis of the nineteenth-century German psychiatrist Heinrich Neumann.