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Inflated responsibility and perseverative checking: The effect of negative mood
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posted on 2023-06-07, 13:37 authored by Benie MacDonald, Graham C L DaveyThis article reports the results of 2 experiments designed to test predictions from the mood-as-input hypothesis on the role of inflated responsibility in perseverative checking. Through the use of an analog checking task in both experiments, the authors showed that perseveration, as indicated by a range of measures relevant to compulsive checking, was affected by a combination of the level of inflated responsibility and the valency of mood at the outset of checking. In particular, inflated responsibility significantly facilitated checking perseveration only in the context of a negative mood and was not a sufficient condition for checking perseveration to occur. These effects of the various configurations of inflated responsibility and mood valency are predicted by the mood-as-input hypothesis.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Journal of Abnormal PsychologyISSN
0021-843XPublisher
American Psychological AssociationExternal DOI
Issue
1Volume
114Page range
176-182Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
Full text available
- No
Peer reviewed?
- Yes