Larger than life: Overestimation of object size is moderated by personal relevance in obsessive–compulsive disorder

Abstract

The present study indicates that OET may extend to neuropsychological tasks. Further research is needed to pinpoint whether OET occurs at the level of encoding suggesting a perceptual bias and/or occurs at the level of retrieval suggesting a memory bias.

Individuals With OCD Lack Unrealistic Optimism Bias in Threat Estimation

“…In sum, the present results also add to a growing body of recent research demonstrating that cognitive biases in OCD are context-dependent (Dittrich & Johansen, 2013;Moritz et al, 2011;Zetsche et al, 2015). In the present study, OCD participants differed from controls primarily in overestimating their personal risk for experiencing aversive events, but they did not differ from controls in their estimation of the general occurrence of these events.…”

Repetition is good? An Internet trial on the illusory truth effect in schizophrenia and nonclinical participants

“…Secondly, further research may delineate whether the enhanced truth effect was due to the emotional valence or the predominantly delusional content of the items. Thirdly, future studies should ask participants about the personal relevance/salience of the items, which, according to studies done in other psychopathological disorders (Crane, Barnhofer, Mark, & Williams, 2007;Moritz et al, 2011;Schlosser et al, 2011), may represent a further moderator. Finally, an unbalanced number of items was employed per condition.…”