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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“Aberrant salience” is just a fancy term for assigning too much meaning to things that are probably coincidences. If you see the same stranger multiple times in the same day, maybe it’s just chance, or maybe they happened to be following the same route as you for some other reason. Assigning this “aberrant salience” would mean fixating on seeing that person multiple times and eventually concluding that it had to have happened for some important reason, like that the stranger is stalking you.
If this really goes into overdrive, you can assign aberrant salience just to seeing a series of unrelated strangers. If you already believe you are being “gang stalked” then encountering *any* stranger can reinforce that delusion.
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