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To compare the profile of attributional style of a group of out‐patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ), and a group of healthy controls – along with other social cognition domains – such as emotion recognition and theory of mind (ToM).

A total of 46 out‐patients diagnosed with BD, 49 with SZ, and 50 healthy controls were assessed in attributional style (Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire), facial emotion recognition (FEIT, FEDT, ER‐40), and ToM (Hinting Task). Symptomatology, clinical variables and global functioning were also collected.

Both groups with SZ and BD showed hostile social cognitive biases, compared with the control group. Patients with BD also showed a capacity for emotional recognition similar to those with SZ and worse than control subjects. In contrast, patients with SZ showed poorer ToM. Subthreshold depressive symptoms and an …