Eli5 Aberrant salience and ‘gang stalking’ delusion

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How does the aberrant salience hypothesis of schizophrenia lead to symptoms people have when under the gang-stalking delusion. If you meet the same person several times a day, what is aberrantly salient about that?

I guess the question is how does aberrant salience explain the gangstalking phenomenon?

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Having spent some time around delusional people, the usual gang stalking delusion comes not from seeing the same person, but seeing the same clothing style, same cars (like seeing several similar black pickup trucks) and the like.

It doesn’t help that people who think they’re being gang stalked will often find “support groups” of people that share similar delusions and encourage each other, often to the point that they’ll confront their supposed harassers.

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