"If I feel disgusted, I must be getting ill": Emotional reasoning in the context of contamination fear

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 122-127

  Verwoerd, Johan ^a   de Jong, Peter J ^a   Wessel, Ineke ^a   van Hout, Wiljo J P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contamination fear; Disgust; Emotional reasoning; OCD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; EMOTIONAL REASONING; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

EID: 84872578911     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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