When more is less: Doubt, repetition, memory, metamemory, and compulsive checking in OCD

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-39

  Radomsky, Adam S ^a   Dugas, Michel J ^a   Alcolado, Gillian M ^a   Lavoie, Stefanie L ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compulsive checking; Memory; Memory confidence; Metamemory; OCD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSION; COMPULSIVE CHECKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOUBT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METAMEMORY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; RECALL; RITUAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902477430     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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