Casa Editrice: Behaviour Research and Therapy
Anno: 2007, 45, pp. 2387–2396
Autore: Amelia Gangemia, Francesco Mancini & Marcel van den Hout

Descrizione: OCD patients experience increased feelings of guilt, threat and uncertainty about harm prevention. As to the relation between these phenomena, it was hypothesised that the experience of guilt acts as “information” that increases the sense of threat and decreases the sense that preventive action is effective. We tested whether state guilt is used as information about risk and prevention effects and whether people high in trait guilt do so more than others.

Casa Editrice: Psychological Reviews
Anno: 2006, 113, pp. 822-842
Autore: Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mancini, F., Gangemi, A.

Descrizione: A “hyper-emotion” theory of psychological illnesses is presented. The theory postulates the processes that construct bodily feelings and basic emotions are computationally crude and outside voluntary control. Psychological illnesses have an onset in which a cognitive evaluation initiates a sequence of unconscious transitions yielding a basic emotion.

Casa Editrice: Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale
Anno: 2006, 12, pp. 197-201
Autore: Francesco Mancini, Claudia Perdighe, Francesca Micaela Serrani e Amelia Gangemi

Descrizione: In questo articolo presentiamo i risultati di una ricerca preliminare tesa a controllare due ipotesi: la prima è che i pazienti ossessivi scelgono le espressioni di rabbia e disgusto come quelle capaci di metterli maggiormente a disagio, più spesso di quanto accade a pazienti con altri disturbi d’ansia. La seconda ipotesi è che i pazienti ossessivi, più spesso degli altri pazienti ansiosi, immaginano che, se si realizzassero i loro timori, allora si troverebbero di fronte ad una espressione di rabbia o disgusto.

Casa Editrice: Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Anno: 2007, 2, pp. 162-176
Autore: Francesco Mancini, Amelia Gangemi, Claudia Perdighe, Chiara Marini

Descrizione: Individuals with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) experience increased guilt. Further, these individuals often report uncomfortable sensations of things being not quite right (“not just right experiences”; NJREs). As to the relation between these psychological phenomena, it was hypothesised that feelings of guilt may enhance NJRE.