African-American college students who perceive racism in their daily lives are also likely to exhibit low levels of paranoia, says Dennis R. Combs, an assistant professor of psychology at the ...

Paranoia is when you constantly think or believe that everyone is threatening you, even when there’s proof that it’s not true. You become very suspicious of other people and their motives. You may ...

Paranoia is a common word that's commonly misunderstood. "S/he's so paranoid!" can be heard in everyday conversation with the same incomprehension as saying someone is "OCD" because they're organized.

When I was in graduate school, a fellow student once happened not to receive an email sent to all graduate students and thought that, perhaps, he’d been expelled from the program and that no one had ...