An experimental manipulation of metacognition: A test of the metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive symptoms

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 51, Issue 4-5, 2013, Pages 177-184

  Myers, Samuel G ^a   Wells, Adrian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Experiment; Metacognition; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Thought fusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; METACOGNITION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE INVENTORY - REVISED; THINKING; UWIST MOOD ADJECTIVE CHECKLIST; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 84873902435     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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