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The correlation between thought-action fusion and religiosity in a normal sample
1Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. rassin@fsw.eur.nl
Abstract:
Thought-action fusion (TAF) refers to a set of two cognitive biases that are thought to contribute to the inflation of feelings of responsibility for one's own thoughts, and thus to the development of obsession. Therefore, insight into the origins of TAF is a clinically relevant research topic. The present study examined the association between religiosity and TAF. Undergraduate students (N=100) completed questionnaires concerning religion, TAF and obsessive-compulsive complaints. Results indicate that religiosity is, indeed, correlated with certain aspects of TAF. Furthermore, correlational patterns differed between Catholic and Protestant subsamples.
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