Disrupted computations of social control in individuals with obsessive-compulsive and misophonia symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Misophonia is a disorder in which certain sounds produced by other people lead to intense negative reactions. It remains unknown how misophonia relates to other psychiatric conditions or impairments. To identify latent constructs underlying symptoms, we conducted a factor analysis consisting of items from questionnaires assessing symptoms of misophonia and other psychiatric conditions. One thousand forty-two participants completed the questionnaires and a social exchange task in which they either could ("controllable") or could not ("uncontrollable") influence future monetary offers from other people. Misophonia and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms loaded onto the same factor. Compared with individuals with low Miso-OC factor scores, individuals with high scores reported higher perceived

SUBMITTER: Banker SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9253698 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature