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¹Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. M.vandenHout@fss.uu.nl

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The "Mood as Input" model explains perseverative checking in Obsessive Compulsive (OC) behavior. However, this study found that simpler, OCD-like tasks reduced checking and the model's effectiveness, questioning its validity for OC perseveration.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

The
Mood as Input
model suggests negative mood and specific stop rules drive perseverative behavior.
Previous research supported this model using complex tasks in healthy participants.
However, clinical Obsessive Compulsive (OC) perseveration involves simpler tasks with no performance improvement.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the validity of the
Mood as Input
model in explaining Obsessive Compulsive (OC) perseveration.
To compare the model's effects across tasks of varying complexity and OCD-likeness.

Main Methods:

Replicated previous findings showing negative mood and
did I do as much as I can?
stop rule induced perseveration on a complex text-correction task.
Compared effects of the original task with simpler, more OCD-like text-correction tasks.

Main Results:

The original findings were replicated: negative mood and the specific stop rule led to perseveration.
Perseveration on the complex task was functional, increasing error detection.
Simpler, OCD-like tasks showed reduced checking and diminished effects of the stop rule on error detection.

Conclusions:

The
Mood as Input
model's ability to explain Obsessive Compulsive (OC) perseveration is questionable.
The model may not accurately represent perseveration in clinical OC populations due to task differences.
Task simplicity and OCD-likeness appear to moderate the influence of mood and stop rules on perseverative behavior.