Objective: Recent developments in cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder posits that nearly everyone experiences unwanted intrusive thoughts, images, and impulses from time to time. The intrusions are not particularly a problematic issue; it is more probably an interpretation or attempts to control in maladaptive or unrealistic ways. So, the present article aimed to assess the nature...

A central question in psychological science concerns whether constructs are best conceptualized as dimensional or consist of one more categories. The present study uses contemporary taxometric procedures to examine the latent structure suicidal thoughts, with implications for how thoughts and behavior (STB) ought be conceptualized, assessed, measured, managed. Three nonredundant (MAMBAC, MAXEIG...

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Explanations based in attribution theory claim that strong external controls such as parental restrictiveness and punishment undermine moral internalization. In contrast, 3 studies provide evidence that parental punishment does socialize morality, but of a particular sort: a morality focused on prohibitions (i.e., proscriptive orientation) rather than positive obligations (i.e., prescriptive or...

Five women prisoners with a history of being battered and who met the DSM-IV criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder were assessed (A phase) and provided with structured relaxation training (RT) (B phase, or placebo treatment), followed by eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (C phase). Using the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Impact of Events Scale's avoidance behav...

We provide an integrative account of temporal biases (confidence changes, planning fallacy, impact bias, and hindsight bias). Students listed either 3 or 12 thoughts about success or failure before an upcoming real-life exam or immediately after learning their grades. Previous explanations had focused on how thought content alone (what comes to mind) influences temporal biases. We found, howeve...

Abstract Catastrophes like global pandemics are very prone to generate different interpretations, also in the realm of religion and theology. It might be expected that most common approach within history was think them as divine punishments for human sins. While this case some instances, a closer look, however, reveals ancient medieval theologians were reluctant embark on way explanations offer...