Mental contamination: The effects of imagined physical dirt and immoral behaviour

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 422-427

  Elliott, Corinna M ^a   Radomsky, Adam S ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fear of contamination; Mental contamination; OCD; PTSD; Washing behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; COGNITION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; INFORMED CONSENT; KISSING; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL HYGIENE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860561765     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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