The Peters Delusions Inventory and the Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale were used to assess psychotic experiences in the population (N=359) and in students (N=78). Students revealed more delusional beliefs and more distress and preoccupation associated with beliefs than persons from the general population. The differences disappeared when samples were matched for age.
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