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Exaggerated TAF responses can increase the significance of obsessional thoughts that lead to preoccupation with thoughts, guilt, avoidance, or neutralization, which are closely connected to the psychopathology of OCD [8,14]. Moreover, OCD patients reported higher TAF scores than nonclinical individuals and university students, or a positive correlation between TAF severity and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms, specifically obsession [4,6,9]. Therefore, TAF may be a core maladaptive belief associated with OCD.
However, previous studies were mostly dependent on a self-reporting questionnaire, the Thought-Action Fusion Scale (TAFS) [9] and its association with other scales, causing potential limitations in which only the conceptual relevance of the TAF is likely to be reflected [4]. Moreover, it has validity issue because of the nature of self-report, as the abstract thinking pattern of TAF can be more difficult to measure than first-level thinking, as TAF is a type of metacognition [15]. It is thought that these problems can be overcome using experimental methods. Multiple experimental manipulations of TAF have refined our understanding of this construct [12,16-21].
Under the assumption that the values obtained through repeated measurements would be more objective, we focused on two variables, emotional intensity (EI) and reaction time (RT), through multiple provocations of different TAF statements. EI is a general measure of mixed subjective feelings that has been typically used and found to increase after TAF induction in previous studies [16,17,19,21]. In contrast, RT is a novel variable in this study that may reflect the TAF response, because people tend to respond more quickly to avoid negative feelings about mishaps associated with their loved ones [25]. In a broader sense, RT has been an important measure that reflects the implicit emotion processing, which TAF response shares [26].
Comparisons of reaction time (A) and emotional intensity (B) in a multiple trial version of thought-action fusion experiment between patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and healthy controls (HC). *p
In the OCD patients, RT did not show any significant relationship in any condition. However, RT in the NS/CP and NS/NP conditions showed trends toward positive relationships with the same two symptom dimensions of responsibility for harm and unacceptable thoughts. In contrast, EI in the NS/NP condition showed a significant negative correlation with the symmetry dimension (rs=-0.34, p = 0.001 for NS/NP) (Table 3).
However, EI did not seem to provide as much clinical information as RT. In this study, EI in both NS conditions showed no correlations with TAFS scores in either group. Regarding OC dimensions, EI in the NS/NP and PS/NP conditions was negatively correlated with the symmetry dimension in OCD patients. That is, a potential relationship was observed between the case of feeling less emotional reaction toward others and the OC symptoms, especially symmetry. In addition, as shown in a Supplementary Figure 2 in the online-only Data Supplement, a significant deviation in EI scores can weaken or cause confusion in the correlation results. In the HCs, the EI in the NS/CP condition was negatively correlated with the contamination dimension. Although the dimensions differed between groups, it should be noted that the correlation between EI and OC symptoms was negative direction.
This study has several limitations. First, as the meta-analyses revealed that OCD patients showed significant impairment in processing speed, it is possible that this effect also affected the RT examined in this study [30,31]. In future research, to control for this effect, we need to evaluate and compare the response time to that of non-TAF neutral statements. Second, although we provided results indicating no differences in experimental variables between medicated and non-medicated patients in this study, further research on drug-naïve OCD patients is needed. Third, the statement paradigm has its own limitations because it does not directly manipulate thoughtevent fusion beliefs but rather attempts to induce pre-existing beliefs [12]. Thus, further studies are needed in a different paradigm to experimentally manipulate TAF [12,48].
Distribution of reaction time in a multiple trial version of thought-action fusion experiment. X-axis represents reaction time (ms) whiley-axis represents frequency. HC, healthy controls; OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder; NS, negative statement; PS, positive statement; CP, close person; NP, neutral person.
Distribution of emotional intensity in a multiple trial version of thought-action fusion experiment. X-axis represents emotional intensity on a Likert scale from 1 (very little) to 4 (very much) while y-axis represents frequency. HC, healthy controls; OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder; NS, negative statement; PS, positive statement; CP, close person; NP, neutral person.
But some people withobsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) believe that thinking about committing a harmful act and actually doing it are equally bad. This is known as thought-action fusion.
Awareness of this symptom is a solid first step toward managing its impact. Know that if you live with OCD, there are ways to challenge your thoughts and decrease the stress and worry associated with them.
Everyone experiences shocking, bizarre, strange, or disturbing thoughts now and then. But if you are living with OCD, you may find yourself overreacting to these thoughts and attempting to suppress them.
A type of CBT called exposure and response prevention (ERP) is the most common treatment for OCD. It can help you manage obsessive thoughts without turning to compulsions. Both types of CBT are guided by mental health professionals.
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In recent years, the idea of a concept has become increasingly central to different areas of philosophy. This collection of original essays presents philosophical perspectives on the link between concepts and language, concepts and experience, concepts and know-how, and concepts and emotion. The essays span a variety of interrelated philosophical domains ranging from epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and the philosophy of emotions. Among the central questions addressed by the contributors are: What are concepts? What is nonconceptual content? Does perceptual experience have conceptual content? Is conceptual thought language dependent? How do we form new concepts? Does practical knowledge have propositional content? Is practical understanding conceptual (without being propositional)? Do emotions have a representational content and if so, is the representational content conceptual? Concepts in Thought, Action, and Emotion advances current debates about concepts and will interest scholars across a broad range of philosophical disciplines.
The current study examined the effects of a psychoeducational intervention designed to target thought-action fusion (TAF) on TAF, thought suppression, and responsibility cognitions. 139 undergraduate students (25 male; 114 female) who were relatively high in TAF with respect to their peers served as participants. Immediately following intervention, individuals who had received psychoeducation regarding TAF reported significantly lower morality TAF scores than individuals who had received psychoeducation regarding thoughts in general and individuals in the control group. At the two-week follow-up assessment, the likelihood TAF scores of those who had received psychoeducation regarding TAF were significantly lower than those of the control group. In addition, the group that received psychoeducation regarding TAF was the only group that did not experience a significant increase in thought suppression from baseline to post-intervention, and was also the only group to experience an increase in both frequency of and belief in low-responsibility thoughts from baseline to follow-up. Implications are discussed.
Rachman (Rachman, S. (1993). Obsessions, responsibility, and guilt. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 31, 149-154) suggested that patients with OCD may interpret thoughts as having special importance, thus experiencing thought-action fusion (TAF). Shafran, Thordarson and Rachman (Shafran, R., Thordarson, D. S. & Rachman, S. (1996). Thought-action fusion in obsessive compulsive disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 710, 379-391) developed a questionnaire (TAF) and found that obsessives scored higher than non-obsessives on the measure. In the current study, we modified the TAF to include a scale that assessed the "likelihood of events happening to others" as well as ratings of the responsibility and cost for having these thoughts. Replicating previous findings, we found that individuals with OC symptoms gave higher ratings to the likelihood of negative events happening as a result of their negative thoughts. Individuals with OC symptoms also rated the likelihood that they would prevent harm by their positive thoughts higher than did individuals without OC symptoms. These results suggest that the role of thought-action fusion in OCs may extend to exaggerated beliefs about thoughts regarding the reduction of harm.
Race and racism have been central to the organisation of Australian society since European colonisation began in 1788. As the First Peoples of Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have borne the brunt of European colonisation and have a unique experience of racism. The process of colonisation, and the beliefs that underpin it, continue to shape Australian society today.
With respect to the second category, that of the social, Arendt wasunable to account for certain important features of the modernworld. Arendt identifies the social with all those activities formerlyrestricted to the private sphere of the household and having to dowith the necessities of life. Her claim is that, with the tremendousexpansion of the economy from the end of the eighteenth century, allsuch activities have taken over the public realm and transformed itinto a sphere for the satisfaction of our material needs. Society hasthus invaded and conquered the public realm, turning it into afunction of what previously were private needs and concerns, and hasthereby destroyed the boundary separating the public and theprivate. Arendt also claims that with the expansion of the socialrealm the tripartite division of human activities has been underminedto the point of becoming meaningless. In her view, once the socialrealm has established its monopoly, the distinction between labor,work and action is lost, since every effort is now expended onreproducing our material conditions of existence. Obsessed with life,productivity, and consumption, we have turned into a society oflaborers and jobholders who no longer appreciate the values associatedwith work, nor those associated with action.
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