Obsessive-compulsive tendencies are associated with a focused information processing strategy.
The study examined the hypothesis that obsessive-compulsive (OC) tendencies are related to a reliance on focused and serial rather than a parallel, speed-oriented information processing style. Ten students with high OC tendencies and 10 students with low OC tendencies performed the flanker task, in...
| Publicado en: | Behaviour Research & Therapy Vol. 46; no. 12; pp. 1295 - 1300 |
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Elsevier Science
December 2008
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