Interpretation bias and contamination-based obsessive-compulsive symptoms influence emotional intensity related to disgust and fear.

ABSTRACT: Biased processing of disgust-related stimuli is increasingly discussed in addition to fear-related processing as a maintenance factor for contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (C-OCD). However, the differential impact of fear and disgust on biased processing in C-OCD is not yet completely understood. Because it is difficult to distinguish the two emotions in self-report assessment by directly addressing the specific emotions, a text paragraph-based interpretation bias paradigm was applied to more implicitly assess emotions. For the text-based interpretation bias paradigm, disgust-related, fear-related, disgust-fear-ambiguous and neutral text paragraphs describing everyday life situations were developed and validated in a pre-study (N = 205). Fifty-nine healthy participants watc

SUBMITTER: Fink-Lamotte J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7192464 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature