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We examined whether the ability to integrate social information among people with schizophrenia (PWS) differed from that of healthy people. Four social cognition task implying information integration were selected: (a) judging the level of success of a student to an exam as a function of this student’s known level of capacity and the time spent at preparing for the exam, (b) judging the level of blame deserved by an aggressor as a function of the severity of the act committed and its level of intentionality, (c) judging one’s personal level of willingness to forgive a transgression as a function of the extent to which its consequences still persist and the quality of the transgressor’s apologies, and (d) judging one’s personal level of adherence to a medical treatment as a function of the severity of pain experienced and the existence of undesirable side effects. PWS’s pattern of responses in the performance task, in the blame attribution task, and the adherence to treatment task were indistinguishable from the healthy participants’ one. In the willingness to forgive task, however, the information on consequences (an inverse effect cue) was given less weight during the judgment process among PWS than among controls whereas the information on apologies (a direct effect cue) was given more weight. Once PWS have been stabilized, their integrative capacities are, therefore, largely preserved.
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