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- Title
Inflated responsibility and perseverative checking: the effect of negative mood.
- Authors
MacDonald, Benie; Davey, Graham C L
- Abstract
This 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.
- Publication
Journal of abnormal psychology, 2005, Vol 114, Issue 1, p176
- ISSN
0021-843X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0021-843X.114.1.176