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Marcel A van den Hout¹, Iris M Engelhard, Charlotte de Boer

¹Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands. m.vandenhout@uu.nl

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Perseverative attending, similar to Obsessive Compulsive (OC) behaviors, increases perceptual uncertainty and distrust in healthy individuals. This suggests OC perseveration impacts confidence in cognitive functions beyond memory.

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Clinical Psychology

Background:

Compulsive checking in Obsessive Compulsive (OC) disorder is linked to memory distrust.
OC uncertainty extends to other cognitive functions, including perception, leading to prolonged attention.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if OC-like perseverative visual attending induces dissociation and perceptual uncertainty in healthy volunteers.
To explore the impact of sustained attention on cognitive operations.

Main Methods:

An experiment with 40 healthy volunteers comparing an experimental group (staring at the same object) and a control group (staring at a different object).
Participants underwent pre-test and post-test visual attention tasks involving specific objects.
Dissociation and perceptual uncertainty were measured.

Main Results:

Dissociation was observed in both experimental and control groups with similar effects.
Perceptual uncertainty was significantly higher in the experimental group, indicating an OC-like effect.
Findings suggest perseveration induces distrust in perception, not just memory.

Conclusions:

OC-like perseveration can induce distrust in perceptual experiences.
Perseveration may interfere with cognitive processes like spreading of activation, leading to uncertainty and potentially derealisation.
All forms of OC perseveration might undermine confidence in cognitive operations.