Browsing Waterloo Research by Subject "OCD"
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An experimental study of hand washing in people with high and normative contamination fear
(Elsevier, 2021-01)Compulsions are the hall mark of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but there has been surprisingly little research on their phenomenology and persistence, and much of this work has focused on checking compulsions. The ... -
An in vivo study of compulsions
(Elsevier, 2021-07)Leading models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) assume that compulsions are enacted to neutralize distress over obsessions. However, lab-based research suggests that once a compulsion starts factors other than distress ... -
Visual attention to threat during stove-checking in people high in checking behaviour
(Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2022-10)Leading models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) state that hypervigilance to threat is a factor in compulsion persistence; however, previous research on attention deployment in OCD is mixed. The current study examines ...