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Zaccari, Vittoria; Rogier, Guyonne; Pulsinelli, Daniela; Mancini, Francesco; D’Olimpio, Francesca
EXPLAINING INTERACTION OF GUILT AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS IN NOT JUST RIGHT EXPERIENCES Journal Article
In: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, vol. 19, no 1, pp. 39-44, 2022.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: guilt, not just right experiences (njres), obsessive– compulsive disorder (ocd), Obsessive–compulsive features, obsessive–compulsive symptoms, Trait-guilt
@article{Zaccari2022,
title = {EXPLAINING INTERACTION OF GUILT AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS IN NOT JUST RIGHT EXPERIENCES},
author = {Vittoria Zaccari and Guyonne Rogier and Daniela Pulsinelli and Francesco Mancini and Francesca D’Olimpio},
editor = {Giovanni Fioriti Editore},
url = {https://apc.it/2022-mancini-explaining-interaction-of-guilt-clinical22_1_zaccarietal-2/},
doi = {doi.org/10.36131/ cnfioritieditore20220106},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
journal = {Clinical Neuropsychiatry},
volume = {19},
number = {1},
pages = {39-44},
abstract = {Objective: “Not Just Right Experiences” (NJREs) are currently considered a characteristic of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Significant associations have been found between NJREs and Obsessive–Compulsive (OC) symptoms in nonclinical and clinical populations. Literature support a significant relationship between NJREs, feelings of guilt and OC features. This study aims to clarify the role of the potential interplay between guilt and OC symptomatology in NJREs and verify if high levels of guilt will predict NJREs and OC symptoms and trait guilt levels will
positively interact in their prediction of NJREs.
Method: One hundred and eighty-nine adults recruited from normal population were assessed with questionnaires of NJREs and OC symptoms and proneness to experience guilt.
Results: All the variables involved in the study (NJREs severity, guilt and OCI-R scores) were positively and significantly correlated and showed that guilt and OCI-R scores significantly and positively interact in the prediction of NJREs levels. Guilt predicted NJREs only when levels of OCI-R were high.
Conclusions: These results support the association between guilt sensitivity or OC symptoms and NJREs in clinical and nonclinical participants and that a disposition toward high levels of guilt and OC symptoms have a particular sensitivity to NJREs corroborating centrality of guilt in OC symptoms.},
keywords = {guilt, not just right experiences (njres), obsessive– compulsive disorder (ocd), Obsessive–compulsive features, obsessive–compulsive symptoms, Trait-guilt},
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positively interact in their prediction of NJREs.
Method: One hundred and eighty-nine adults recruited from normal population were assessed with questionnaires of NJREs and OC symptoms and proneness to experience guilt.
Results: All the variables involved in the study (NJREs severity, guilt and OCI-R scores) were positively and significantly correlated and showed that guilt and OCI-R scores significantly and positively interact in the prediction of NJREs levels. Guilt predicted NJREs only when levels of OCI-R were high.
Conclusions: These results support the association between guilt sensitivity or OC symptoms and NJREs in clinical and nonclinical participants and that a disposition toward high levels of guilt and OC symptoms have a particular sensitivity to NJREs corroborating centrality of guilt in OC symptoms.
Salvo, Giuseppe; Provenzano, Samantha; Bello, Maria Di; D’Olimpio, Francesca; Ottaviani, Cristina; Mancini, Francesco
In: Clinical Psychological Science, 2021.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Disgust, guilt, Morality, noninvasive brain stimulation, obsessive compulsive disorder
@article{Salvo2021,
title = {Filthiness of Immorality: Manipulating Disgust and Moral Rigidity Through Noninvasive Brain Stimulation as a Promising Therapeutic Tool for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder},
author = {Giuseppe Salvo and Samantha Provenzano and Maria Di Bello and Francesca D’Olimpio and Cristina Ottaviani and Francesco Mancini},
editor = {Clinical Psychological Science},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211009508},
doi = {doi.org/10.1177/21677026211009508},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-05-25},
journal = {Clinical Psychological Science},
abstract = {The study was designed to test the hypothesis that indirect inhibition of the insula via cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) would decrease disgust and moral rigidity in 36 healthy individuals undergoing 15 min of tDCS over the temporal lobe. To obtain a comprehensive assessment of disgust, we used subjective (affect rating), physiological (heart rate variability [HRV]), and implicit measures (word-fragment completion), and moral judgment was assessed by asking participants to rate the deontological and altruistic moral wrongness of a revised version of the moral foundations vignettes. We found anodal and cathodal stimulations to, respectively, enhance and decrease self-reported disgust, deontological morality, and HRV. Note that these effects were stronger in individuals with higher levels of obsessive compulsive (OC) traits. Because disgust and sensitivity to deontological guilt are among the most impairing features in OC disorder, it is auspicious that cathodal tDCS could be implemented to reduce such symptoms.},
keywords = {Disgust, guilt, Morality, noninvasive brain stimulation, obsessive compulsive disorder},
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Zaccari, Vittoria; Aceto, Marianna; Mancini, Francesco
A systematic review of instruments to assess guilt in children and adolescent Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Psychology , vol. 11, no 573488, 2020, ISSN: 1664-0640.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: adolescents, children, development, guilt, instrument, measure, systematic review
@article{Zaccari2020,
title = {A systematic review of instruments to assess guilt in children and adolescent},
author = {Vittoria Zaccari and Marianna Aceto and Francesco Mancini},
editor = {Frontiers in Psychiatry},
url = {https://apc.it/2020-zaccari-et-al-a-systematic-review/},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.573488},
issn = {1664-0640},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-12-09},
journal = {Frontiers in Psychology },
volume = {11},
number = {573488},
abstract = {Guilt feelings have received considerable attention in past psychological theory and research. Several studies have been conducted that represent a range of views and propose various implications of guilt in children and adolescents. Variations in theoretical definitions of guilt, emphasizing a lack of measurement convergence, make it difficult to derive a comprehensive definition of the construct in childhood and adolescence. Research shows substantial variability in instruments used to measure guilt in children and adolescents.
Purpose: The aim is to discuss existing contributions, illustrating the empirical validity of the available instruments used to measure guilt and identifying the nature of their theoretical backgrounds among children and adolescents.
Methods: A systematic search was conducted using the following databases: PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed (all years up to February 19, 2020). Search terms were compiled into three concepts for all databases: “measure,” “guilt,” and “childhood/adolescence.” In addition, a search was conducted to detect the gray literature.
Results: After removing the duplicates, a total of 1,408 records were screened, resulting in the identification of 166 full-text articles to be further scrutinized. Upon closer examination, there was consensus that 148 of those studies met the study inclusion criteria or were not retrieved. Twenty-five studies were included in the quality assessment. The data were organized on three main categories: (1) interpersonal or prosocial guilt; (2) intrapunitive guilt or that referring to an excessive sense of responsibility; (3) not specifying a theoretical construct. A great heterogeneity in psychometric evaluations and substantial variability in guilt construct emerged. The construct most represented and supported by valid instruments was interpersonal or prosocial guilt. Analysis of the gray literature showed that some instruments were not immediately available to the clinical and scientific communities.
Conclusions: The studies analyzed and selected for qualitative review employed various instruments to measure guilt. Results confirmed what is widely documented in the literature about substantial variability in instruments used to measure guilt. We argue the need to develop measures that assess currently overlooked dimensions of guilt and to provide further additional information about the psychometric proprieties of the available developed instruments.},
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Purpose: The aim is to discuss existing contributions, illustrating the empirical validity of the available instruments used to measure guilt and identifying the nature of their theoretical backgrounds among children and adolescents.
Methods: A systematic search was conducted using the following databases: PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed (all years up to February 19, 2020). Search terms were compiled into three concepts for all databases: “measure,” “guilt,” and “childhood/adolescence.” In addition, a search was conducted to detect the gray literature.
Results: After removing the duplicates, a total of 1,408 records were screened, resulting in the identification of 166 full-text articles to be further scrutinized. Upon closer examination, there was consensus that 148 of those studies met the study inclusion criteria or were not retrieved. Twenty-five studies were included in the quality assessment. The data were organized on three main categories: (1) interpersonal or prosocial guilt; (2) intrapunitive guilt or that referring to an excessive sense of responsibility; (3) not specifying a theoretical construct. A great heterogeneity in psychometric evaluations and substantial variability in guilt construct emerged. The construct most represented and supported by valid instruments was interpersonal or prosocial guilt. Analysis of the gray literature showed that some instruments were not immediately available to the clinical and scientific communities.
Conclusions: The studies analyzed and selected for qualitative review employed various instruments to measure guilt. Results confirmed what is widely documented in the literature about substantial variability in instruments used to measure guilt. We argue the need to develop measures that assess currently overlooked dimensions of guilt and to provide further additional information about the psychometric proprieties of the available developed instruments.
Tenore, Katia; Basile, Barbara; Cosentino, Teresa; Sanctis, Brunetto De; Fadda, Stefania; Femia, Giuseppe; Gragnani, Andrea; Luppino, Olga Ines; Pellegrini, Valerio; Perdighe, Claudia; Romano, Giuseppe; Saliani, Angelo Maria; Mancini, Francesco
Imagery Rescripting on Guilt-Inducing Memories in OCD: A Single Case Series Study Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 11, pp. 1018, 2020, ISSN: 1664-0640 .
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: criticism, guilt, imagery rescripting, memories, obsessive-compulsive disorder
@article{Tenore2020,
title = {Imagery Rescripting on Guilt-Inducing Memories in OCD: A Single Case Series Study},
author = {Katia Tenore and Barbara Basile and Teresa Cosentino and Brunetto De Sanctis and Stefania Fadda and Giuseppe Femia and Andrea Gragnani and Olga Ines Luppino and Valerio Pellegrini and Claudia Perdighe and Giuseppe Romano and Angelo Maria Saliani and Francesco Mancini},
editor = {Pedro Morgado, University of Minho, Portugal},
url = {https://apc.it/2020-mancini-imagery-rescripting-on-guilt-frontiers/},
doi = {10.3389/fpsyt.2020.543806 },
issn = {1664-0640 },
year = {2020},
date = {2020-09-30},
urldate = {2020-09-30},
journal = {Frontiers in Psychiatry},
volume = {11},
pages = {1018},
abstract = {Background and objectives: Criticism is thought to play an important role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and obsessive behaviors have been considered as childhood strategies to avoid criticism. Often, patients with OCD report memories characterized by guilt-inducing reproaches. Starting from these assumptions, the aim of this study is to test whether intervening in memories of guilt-inducing reproaches can reduce current OCD symptoms. The emotional valence of painful memories may be modified through imagery rescripting (ImRs), an experiential technique that has shown promising results.
Methods: After monitoring a baseline of symptoms, 18 OCD patients underwent three sessions of ImRs, followed by monitoring for up to 3 months. Indexes of OCD, depression, anxiety, disgust, and fear of guilt were collected.
Results: Patients reported a significant decrease in OCD symptoms. The mean value on the Yale−Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) changed from 25.94 to 14.11. At the 3-month follow-up, 14 of the 18 participants (77.7%) achieved an improvement of ≥35% on the Y-BOCS. Thirteen patients reported a reliable improvement, with ten reporting a clinically significant change (reliable change index = 9.94). Four reached the asymptomatic criterion. Clinically significant changes were not detected for depression and anxiety.
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that after ImRs intervention focusing on patients’ early experiences of guilt-inducing reproaches there were clinically significant changes in OCD symptomatology. The data support the role of ImRs in reducing OCD symptoms and the previous cognitive models of OCD, highlighting the role of guilt-related early life experiences in vulnerability to OCD.},
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Methods: After monitoring a baseline of symptoms, 18 OCD patients underwent three sessions of ImRs, followed by monitoring for up to 3 months. Indexes of OCD, depression, anxiety, disgust, and fear of guilt were collected.
Results: Patients reported a significant decrease in OCD symptoms. The mean value on the Yale−Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) changed from 25.94 to 14.11. At the 3-month follow-up, 14 of the 18 participants (77.7%) achieved an improvement of ≥35% on the Y-BOCS. Thirteen patients reported a reliable improvement, with ten reporting a clinically significant change (reliable change index = 9.94). Four reached the asymptomatic criterion. Clinically significant changes were not detected for depression and anxiety.
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that after ImRs intervention focusing on patients’ early experiences of guilt-inducing reproaches there were clinically significant changes in OCD symptomatology. The data support the role of ImRs in reducing OCD symptoms and the previous cognitive models of OCD, highlighting the role of guilt-related early life experiences in vulnerability to OCD.
Petrucci, Manuel; Gragnani, Andrea
Doubts about me, doubts about you: a case of comorbid obsessivecompulsive and paranoid personality disorders Journal Article
In: Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, vol. 25, no 3, pp. 359-375, 2019.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: guilt, Humiliation, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Paranoid personality, Risk acceptance
@article{Petrucci2019,
title = {Doubts about me, doubts about you: a case of comorbid obsessivecompulsive and paranoid personality disorders},
author = {Manuel Petrucci and Andrea Gragnani},
editor = {Edizioni Erickson},
url = {https://apc.it/petrucci-gragnani-2019-a-case-of-comorbid-ocd-and-paranoid-personality/},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale},
volume = {25},
number = {3},
pages = {359-375},
abstract = {The case formulation and cognitive-behavior therapy of a patient whose pathology fulfills criteria for both obsessive-compulsive (OCD) and paranoid personality disorders (PPD) is described. Case formulation encompasses all the relevant cognitive, emotional and motivational factors underlying he disorders, emphasizing interactions between processes and strategies aimed at investigating and disconfirming feared scenarios, and reconstructing the ontogeny of pathological beliefs and themes n the patient’s life history. The treatment targeted rumination and dysfunctional interpersonal cycles hat maintained and reinforced pathology, promoting awareness, critical insights, risk acceptance and
progressive decline of maladaptive control strategies. The challenges to the therapeutic alliance due to paranoid ideation towards the therapist and the relational strategies used to overcome them are also reported. The case offers clear indications about effective interventions that address both common and specific mechanisms involved in OCD and PPD, and provides observations that might foster future theoretical conceptualizations and research on the involvement of guilt, shame and humiliation in the two conditions. },
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progressive decline of maladaptive control strategies. The challenges to the therapeutic alliance due to paranoid ideation towards the therapist and the relational strategies used to overcome them are also reported. The case offers clear indications about effective interventions that address both common and specific mechanisms involved in OCD and PPD, and provides observations that might foster future theoretical conceptualizations and research on the involvement of guilt, shame and humiliation in the two conditions.
Migliore, Simone; D'Aurizio, Giulia; Parisi, Francesca; Maffi, Sabrina; Squitieri, Barbara; Curcio, Giuseppe; Mancini, Francesco
Moral Judgment and empathic/Deontological Guilt Journal Article
In: Psychological Reports, pp. 1-17, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: altruistic, decision-making, deontological, Emotions, guilt, moral dilemma
@article{Migliore2018,
title = {Moral Judgment and empathic/Deontological Guilt},
author = {Simone Migliore and Giulia D'Aurizio and Francesca Parisi and Sabrina Maffi and Barbara Squitieri and Giuseppe Curcio and Francesco Mancini},
editor = {Sage},
url = {https://apc.it/2018_moral-judgment-and-empathic_-deontological-guilt/},
doi = {doi.org/10.1177/0033294118787500},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-07-19},
journal = {Psychological Reports},
pages = {1-17},
abstract = {People often make complicated decisions to help or to punish perfect strangers. Harming someone or breaking some moral imperative is usually linked to feeling guilt, and several researches suggested the existence of two different kinds of guilt: altruistic/empathic and deontological.
Aim
Our study aimed to investigate the decision-making processes in moral and nonmoral judgments and assess how specific situations in which the subject is close to the victim or flanked by an authority can influence his decisions.
Methods
We used three different moral conditions: Empathic Moral (the decision has made while physically close to the potential victims), Deontological Moral (the decision has made while flanked by an “authority”), and Standard Moral (without any influence); a fourth condition is represented by Nonmoral dilemmas (the subject must make a choice between two different things and this does not cause any harm or victims). Previously, a pilot study was carried out for validating the experimental stories to be used in the main study.
Results
We observed a higher number of utilitarian/positive responses when individuals had to respond to Empathic Moral condition, with respect to Deontological Moral and Nonmoral dilemmas. Moreover, looking at the time needed to read the dilemma, under empathic guilt condition, people tended to be slower in reading the dilemmas than in other conditions and this both in case of positive and negative responses. No significant differences in time needed to effectively respond emerged.
Conclusions
These findings suggested that be physically close to potential victims or be flanked by an “authority” differentially influence the decision-making processes in moral judgment, inducing slower decisions and more utilitarian answers, particularly in the scenario of physical proximity.},
keywords = {altruistic, decision-making, deontological, Emotions, guilt, moral dilemma},
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Aim
Our study aimed to investigate the decision-making processes in moral and nonmoral judgments and assess how specific situations in which the subject is close to the victim or flanked by an authority can influence his decisions.
Methods
We used three different moral conditions: Empathic Moral (the decision has made while physically close to the potential victims), Deontological Moral (the decision has made while flanked by an “authority”), and Standard Moral (without any influence); a fourth condition is represented by Nonmoral dilemmas (the subject must make a choice between two different things and this does not cause any harm or victims). Previously, a pilot study was carried out for validating the experimental stories to be used in the main study.
Results
We observed a higher number of utilitarian/positive responses when individuals had to respond to Empathic Moral condition, with respect to Deontological Moral and Nonmoral dilemmas. Moreover, looking at the time needed to read the dilemma, under empathic guilt condition, people tended to be slower in reading the dilemmas than in other conditions and this both in case of positive and negative responses. No significant differences in time needed to effectively respond emerged.
Conclusions
These findings suggested that be physically close to potential victims or be flanked by an “authority” differentially influence the decision-making processes in moral judgment, inducing slower decisions and more utilitarian answers, particularly in the scenario of physical proximity.
Basile, Barbara; Sanctis, Brunetto De; Fadda, Stefania; Luppino, Olga Ines; Perdighe, Claudia; Saliani, Angelo Maria; Tenore, Katia; Mancini, Francesco
Early life experiences in ocd and other disorders: a retrospective observational study using imagery with re-scripting Journal Article
In: Clinical Neuropsychiatry , vol. 15, no 5, pp. 299-305, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: early experiences, guilt, Imagery with Rescripting, OCD, Schema therapy
@article{Basile2018c,
title = {Early life experiences in ocd and other disorders: a retrospective observational study using imagery with re-scripting},
author = {Barbara Basile and Brunetto De Sanctis and Stefania Fadda and Olga Ines Luppino and Claudia Perdighe and Angelo Maria Saliani and Katia Tenore and Francesco Mancini},
editor = {Giovanni Fioriti Editore},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-Early-life-Experiences-in-ocd-2.pdf},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-02-01},
journal = {Clinical Neuropsychiatry },
volume = {15},
number = {5},
pages = {299-305},
abstract = {Objective: The close link between obsessive symptomatology, guilt and inflated responsibility is well documented, although one might suppose that guilt sensitiveness and dysfunctional beliefs about responsibility are rooted further in time. imagery with rescripting (iwr) is an emotion-focused technique that binds actual stressful emotions to past memories where similar feelings were activated. it is used to change the meaning of emotionally distressing memories, turning aversive mental images into positive ones, and achieving a healthier prospective on the event. the aim of this study was to compare the content of iwr exercises, collected during an on-going cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, in OcD and non-OcD patients, in order to explore eventual differences in their early negative childhood memories. we expected guilt and blame-related childhood episodes to be more frequent in OcD, compared against non-OcD patients.
Method: forty-one imagery exercises were collected and categorized according to their content, emotions, needs, type of re-scripting, and fnal cognitive re-attribution.
Results: OCD patients reported signifcantly more blame/reproach memories, expressing more guilt emotion and needs for acceptance. within the re-scripting phase, all patients, regardless of their diagnosis, concluded the exercise protecting, reassuring and fostering emotional and needs expression, with no specifc difference between groups.
Conclusions: this work has several limitations, including the subjective nature of the study, the small sample size and unbalanced gender distribution across samples. However, our fndings are in line with cognitive models on OCD, supporting the role of guilt-related early experiences that seem to be specifc to this disorder
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Method: forty-one imagery exercises were collected and categorized according to their content, emotions, needs, type of re-scripting, and fnal cognitive re-attribution.
Results: OCD patients reported signifcantly more blame/reproach memories, expressing more guilt emotion and needs for acceptance. within the re-scripting phase, all patients, regardless of their diagnosis, concluded the exercise protecting, reassuring and fostering emotional and needs expression, with no specifc difference between groups.
Conclusions: this work has several limitations, including the subjective nature of the study, the small sample size and unbalanced gender distribution across samples. However, our fndings are in line with cognitive models on OCD, supporting the role of guilt-related early experiences that seem to be specifc to this disorder
Cosentino, Teresa; Faraci, Palmira; Coda, Daniela; D’Angelo, Rosaria; Pari, Lorena Assunta De; di Crescenzo, Maria Rosaria; Esposito, Luisa; Scelza, Amalia
Family accommodation in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a study on associated variables Journal Article
In: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, vol. 12, no 5, pp. 128-134, 2015.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: family, family accommodation, guilt, obsessive-compulsive disorder, relatives
@article{Cosentino2015,
title = {Family accommodation in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a study on associated variables},
author = {Teresa Cosentino and Palmira Faraci and Daniela Coda and Rosaria D’Angelo and Lorena Assunta De Pari and Maria Rosaria di
Crescenzo and Luisa Esposito and Amalia Scelza},
editor = {Giovanni Fioriti Editore s.r.l.},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2015-family-accommodation.-cosentino-et-all.pdf},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-05-01},
journal = {Clinical Neuropsychiatry},
volume = {12},
number = {5},
pages = {128-134},
abstract = {The present study aimed to examine family accommodation in relatives of obesessive-compulsive disease (OCD) patients. Accommodation was assessed in a sample of 31 relatives of OCD patients by means of the Family Accommodation Scale. Other variables measured as predictor of accommodation were tendency of a familymember to feel guilty, sensitivity to guilt, anxiety sensitivity and the prevalence of a passive communication style.
Accommodation was found to be rather widespread in the family members who took part in our study, and they tended to show more accommodation the greater their sensitivity to guilt and the stable tendency to experience this emotion as well as anxiety sensitivity and passive communication style. Multiple linear regression analyses showed that, among the variables considered, the family member's sensitivity to guilt is the only factor which can predict accommodation with regard to the patient's demands for involvement. On the other hand, the small number of family members in the sample and the lack of clinical data of patients (such as the severity, typology and duration of their obsessive-compulsive disorder) pose limits to the generalizability of the results and point to the need for further research.},
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Accommodation was found to be rather widespread in the family members who took part in our study, and they tended to show more accommodation the greater their sensitivity to guilt and the stable tendency to experience this emotion as well as anxiety sensitivity and passive communication style. Multiple linear regression analyses showed that, among the variables considered, the family member's sensitivity to guilt is the only factor which can predict accommodation with regard to the patient's demands for involvement. On the other hand, the small number of family members in the sample and the lack of clinical data of patients (such as the severity, typology and duration of their obsessive-compulsive disorder) pose limits to the generalizability of the results and point to the need for further research.
Perdighe, Claudia; Cosentino, Teresa; Faraci, Palmira; Gragnani, Andrea; Saliani, Angelo Maria; Mancini, Francesco
Individual differences in guilt sensitivity scale (GSS) Journal Article
In: Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, vol. 22, no 3, pp. 349-362, 2015.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: guilt, Guilt scale, Individual differenc es, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Sensitivity
@article{C.2015,
title = {Individual differences in guilt sensitivity scale (GSS)},
author = {Claudia Perdighe and Teresa Cosentino and Palmira Faraci and Andrea Gragnani and Angelo Maria Saliani and Francesco Mancini },
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Perdighe-et-al._2015.pdf},
doi = {10.4473/TPM22.3.3},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-05-01},
urldate = {2015-05-01},
journal = {Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology},
volume = {22},
number = {3},
pages = {349-362},
abstract = {Individual differences can be observed in the propensity to experience certain emotions; for some emotions, most notably anxiety and disgust, the notion of sensitivity was also explored, namely one's tendency to evaluate negatively a given emotion and its effects. Based on observations made in the clinical practice, the authors suggest that this distinction may be usefully applied also to guilt, creating a specific instrument to measure guilt sensitivity. In the wake of such considerations, the authors developed the Guilt Sensivity Scale, a 10-item scale. It evaluates subjective sensitivity to guilt feelings by investigating: the tendency to avoid this feeling, its influence on the patient's life, and his/her ability to tolerate it. The major goal of this study is testing the psychometric properties of this scale. To this end, the scale was administered to a sample of 916 participants. In terms of psychometric properties, the instrument seems to be characterized by a significant, promising reliability and validity.},
keywords = {guilt, Guilt scale, Individual differenc es, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Sensitivity},
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Basile, Barbara; Mancini, Francesco
In: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, vol. 11, no 6, pp. 187-193, 2014.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Disgust, emotion processing, guilt, intentionality, Neuroimaging, obsessive-compulsive disorder
@article{Basile2014,
title = {Neurobiological mechanisms underlying abnormal processing of guilt, disgust and intentionality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A critical review},
author = {Barbara Basile and Francesco Mancini},
editor = {Giovanni Fioriti Editore},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2014-neurobiological-mechanism-basile-mancini.pdf},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-12-01},
journal = {Clinical Neuropsychiatry},
volume = {11},
number = {6},
pages = {187-193},
abstract = {Many different and innovative neuroimaging techniques have been developed in the last decades. Functional neuroimaging allows detecting what is happening in our brain at rest or while performing a specific cognitive or emotional task, while structural methods are concerned with the physical organization of the brain, considering both micro- and macro-structural aspects. Starting from these recent developments, neuroimaging techniques have been applied to healthy individuals, as well as to clinical populations. Functional and quantitative imaging research has also focused on what is going in the brain of patients suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). There is consisting clinical and experimental evidence showing that patients suffering from OCD are particularly sensitive to guilt and disgust emotions, with both contributing to the disorder’s onset and maintenance. Further, OCD patients also show impairment in the ability to consciously control, or inhibit, specific behaviors, resulting in compulsive acting. In this review we want to provide some neurobiological evidence on the cerebral mechanisms underlying guilt and disgust processing in OCD, also considering the neural aspects of motor intentionality. Overall, neuroimaging studies suggest that the Fronto-Parieto-sub-Cortical circuit, including both cortical and sub-cortical regions, as well as their inter-connecting fibers, is involved in OCD. Overall, findings show more frontal regions, extending to the insular cortices, to be involved, in action monitoring, error detection, decision making, and in guilt and disgust processing, while the midbrain, including basal ganglia and extending to more parietal areas, is involved in movement selection, correction and inhibition, in intentionality and social cognition. We think these data might contribute in explaining the neurobiological substrate underlying some core aspects of OCD clinical manifestation, which does not necessarily rely upon a dysfunction of the central nervous system. We suggest here, that eventual OCD patients’ psychological processes may affect neuronal responses, contributing to the peculiarities observed. },
keywords = {Disgust, emotion processing, guilt, intentionality, Neuroimaging, obsessive-compulsive disorder},
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D’Olimpio, Francesca; Mancini, Francesco
Role of Deontological Guilt in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder–Like Checking and Washing Behaviors Journal Article
In: Clinical Psychological Science, vol. 2, no 6, pp. 727-739, 2014.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: cognition and emotion, guilt, obsessive-compulsive disorder
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title = {Role of Deontological Guilt in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder–Like Checking and Washing Behaviors},
author = {Francesca D’Olimpio and Francesco Mancini},
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abstract = {Questa è una bozza quindi questa versione non corrisponde esattamente all'orginale.
Obsessions and compulsions are driven by the goal of preventing or neutralizing guilt. We investigated whether inducing deontological versus altruistic guilt in healthy volunteers could activate checking behaviors and physical cleaning. Participants were asked to listen to stories that induced deontological guilt, altruistic guilt, or a neutral control state, and then were asked to classify 100 colored capsules into 12 small pots (Study 1) or to clean a Plexiglas cube (Study 2). Before and after hearing the story and after completing the task, participants completed a visual analog scale that assessed their current emotions. Finally, participants completed a self-report questionnaire about discomfort, doubts, and perceived performance. Participants in the deontological group checked more (Study 1), cleaned the cube more times (Study 2), and scored higher in doubts and discomfort than did participants in the altruistic or control groups. These data suggest that deontological guilt is the mental state specifically related to checking and cleaning compulsions.},
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Obsessions and compulsions are driven by the goal of preventing or neutralizing guilt. We investigated whether inducing deontological versus altruistic guilt in healthy volunteers could activate checking behaviors and physical cleaning. Participants were asked to listen to stories that induced deontological guilt, altruistic guilt, or a neutral control state, and then were asked to classify 100 colored capsules into 12 small pots (Study 1) or to clean a Plexiglas cube (Study 2). Before and after hearing the story and after completing the task, participants completed a visual analog scale that assessed their current emotions. Finally, participants completed a self-report questionnaire about discomfort, doubts, and perceived performance. Participants in the deontological group checked more (Study 1), cleaned the cube more times (Study 2), and scored higher in doubts and discomfort than did participants in the altruistic or control groups. These data suggest that deontological guilt is the mental state specifically related to checking and cleaning compulsions.
Basile, Barbara; Mancini, Francesco; Macaluso, Emiliano; Caltagirone, Carlo; Bozzali, Marco
Abnormal processing of deontological guilt in obsessive--compulsive disorder Journal Article
In: Brain Structure and Function, vol. 219, no 4, pp. 1321–1331, 2013, ISSN: 1863-2661.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Altruistic guilt, Deontological guilt, Emotional processing, guilt, Neuroimaging, Obsessive–compulsive disorder
@article{andBozzali2013,
title = {Abnormal processing of deontological guilt in obsessive--compulsive disorder},
author = {Barbara Basile
and Francesco Mancini
and Emiliano Macaluso
and Carlo Caltagirone
and Marco Bozzali},
editor = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Basile_Mancini_2013_Guilt_in_OCD_fMRI.pdf},
doi = {10.1007/s00429-013-0570-2},
issn = {1863-2661},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-12-01},
journal = {Brain Structure and Function},
volume = {219},
number = {4},
pages = {1321--1331},
abstract = {Guilt plays a significant role in the occurrence and maintenance of obsessive--compulsive disorder (OCD). Two major types of guilt have been identified: one deriving from the transgression of a moral rule (deontological guilt DG), another (altruistic guilt AG), relying on the assumption of having compromised a personal altruistic goal. Clinical evidence suggests that OCD patients are particularly sensitive to DG, but not AG. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we investigated brain response of OCD patients while processing DG and AG stimuli. A previously validated fMRI paradigm was used to selectively evoke DG and AG, and anger and sadness, as control emotions in 13 OCD patients and 19 healthy controls. Patients' behavioral results showed a prominent attitude to experience guilt, compared to controls, while accomplishing task. fMRI results revealed that patients have reduced activation in the anterior cingulate (ACC) and frontal gyrus when experiencing guilt, regardless of its specific type (DG or AG). When separately considering each type of guilt (against each of its control), patients showed decreased activation in the ACC, the insula and the precuneus, for DG. No significant differences were observed between groups when processing AG, anger or sad stimuli. This study provides evidence for an abnormal processing of guilt, and specifically DG, in OCD patients. We suggest that decreased activation may reflect patients' cerebral efficiency, which derives from their frequent exposure to guilty feelings (``neural efficiency hypothesis''). In conclusion, our study confirms a selective abnormal processing of guilt, and specifically DG, in OCD.},
keywords = {Altruistic guilt, Deontological guilt, Emotional processing, guilt, Neuroimaging, Obsessive–compulsive disorder},
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Carni, Serena; Petrocchi, Nicola; Miglio, Carlamaria Del; Mancini, Francesco; Couyoumdjian, Alessandro
Intrapsychic and interpersonal guilt: a critical review of the recent literature Journal Article
In: Cognitive Processing, vol. 14, no 4, pp. 333–346, 2013, ISSN: 1612-4790.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Altruism, guilt, Morality, Self-conscious emotions, Shame
@article{Carnì2013,
title = {Intrapsychic and interpersonal guilt: a critical review of the recent literature},
author = {Serena Carni and Nicola Petrocchi and Carlamaria Del Miglio and Francesco Mancini and Alessandro Couyoumdjian },
editor = {International Quarterly of Cognitive Science},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/intrapsychic-and-personal-guilt.pdf},
doi = {10.1007/s10339-013-0570-4},
issn = {1612-4790},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
journal = {Cognitive Processing},
volume = {14},
number = {4},
pages = {333--346},
abstract = {Various authors hold that some emotions (i.e., moral emotions) have the function of orienting people toward ethical actions. In addition to embarrassment, shame and pride, the moral emotion of guilt is believed to affect humans' behavior when they carry out transgressions that violate social and cultural standards. Over the past century, many studies (including controversial ones) have been conducted on guilt. In this study, we analyzed and summarized mainly the most recent literature on this emotion. On one side, the destructiveness of guilt is emphasized. It inflicts punishment and pain on individuals for their errors and can lead to psychopathology (e.g., depression). On the other side, it is described as a ``friendly'' emotion that motivates behavior adapted to social and cultural rules. How can this asymmetry be explained? Different existing views on guilt are presented and discussed, together with recent proposals, supported by research data. Finally, we discussed some systematic models that try to incorporate these different views in a single framework that could facilitate future researches.},
keywords = {Altruism, guilt, Morality, Self-conscious emotions, Shame},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Basile, Barbara; Mancini, Francesco
Eliciting Guilty Feeling: A preliminary Study Differentiating Deontological and Altruistic Guilt Journal Article
In: Psychology, vol. 2, no 2, pp. 98-102, 2011.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Altruistic guilt, Deontological guilt, Emotions, guilt
@article{Basile2011,
title = {Eliciting Guilty Feeling: A preliminary Study Differentiating Deontological and Altruistic Guilt},
author = { Barbara Basile and Francesco Mancini },
editor = {Scientific Research Publishing},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2011_eliciting-guilt-basile-mancini-1.pdf},
doi = {10.4236/psych.2011.22016},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
journal = {Psychology},
volume = {2},
number = {2},
pages = {98-102},
abstract = {Guilt has been identified as both an intrapsychic and an interpersonal emotion. The current study presents evidence of the existence of two senses of guilt, deontological and altruistic guilt, induced through different experimental paradigms. Deontological guilt evolves from having slighted moral authority or norms, while altruistic guilt arises from selfish behavior and the distress of others. We hypothesize that specific stimuli would evoke, separately, deontological guilt and altruistic/interpersonal guilt feelings.
Two different procedures were used to test our hypothesis, adding two emotions as control conditions (i.e. anger and sadness). Results clearly indicate that two different guilt emotions can be evoked separately, by appropriate stimulation. Findings and possible clinical implications are discussed.},
keywords = {Altruistic guilt, Deontological guilt, Emotions, guilt},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Two different procedures were used to test our hypothesis, adding two emotions as control conditions (i.e. anger and sadness). Results clearly indicate that two different guilt emotions can be evoked separately, by appropriate stimulation. Findings and possible clinical implications are discussed.
Basile, Barbara; Mancini, Francesco; Macaluso, Emiliano; Caltagirone, Carlo; Frackowiak, Richard S. J.; Bozzali, Marco
Deontological and Altruistic Guilt: Evidence for Distinct Neurobiological Substrates Journal Article
In: Human Brain Mapping , no 2, pp. 229–239, 2011.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: altruistic, anterior cingulate cortex, deontological, Emotion, fMRI, guilt
@article{Macaluso2011,
title = {Deontological and Altruistic Guilt: Evidence for Distinct Neurobiological Substrates},
author = {Barbara Basile and Francesco Mancini and Emiliano Macaluso and Carlo Caltagirone and Richard S.J. Frackowiak and Marco Bozzali},
editor = {Neuroimaging Laboratory},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Deontological%20and%20Altruistic%20Guilt_%20Evidence%20for%20Distinct%20Neurobiological%20%20Substrates%20(mancini%20et%20al).pdf},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
journal = {Human Brain Mapping },
number = {2},
pages = {229–239},
abstract = {The feeling of guilt is a complex mental state underlying several human behaviors in both private and social life. From a psychological and evolutionary viewpoint, guilt is an emotional and cognitive function, characterized by prosocial sentiments, entailing specific moral believes, which can be predominantly driven by inner values (deontological guilt) or by more interpersonal situations (altruistic guilt). The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a distinct neurobiological substrate for these two expressions of guilt in healthy individuals. We first run two behavioral studies, recruiting a sample of 72 healthy volunteers, to validate a set of stimuli selectively evoking deontological and altruistic guilt, or basic control emotions (i.e., anger and sadness). Similar stimuli were reproduced in a event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm, to investigate the neural correlates of the same emotions, in a new sample of 22 healthy volunteers. We show that guilty emotions, compared to anger and sadness, activate specific brain areas (i.e., cingulate gyrus and medial frontal cortex) and that different neuronal networks are involved in each specific kind of guilt, with the insula selectively responding to deontological guilt stimuli. },
keywords = {altruistic, anterior cingulate cortex, deontological, Emotion, fMRI, guilt},
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Mancini, Francesco; Gangemi, Amelia; Perdighe, Claudia; Marini, Chiara
Not just right experience: Is it influenced by feelings of guilt? Journal Article
In: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, vol. 39, no 2, pp. 162 - 176, 2008, ISSN: 0005-7916.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: guilt, Not just right experience, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, Obsessive–compulsive features, Trait-guilt
@article{Mancini2008162,
title = {Not just right experience: Is it influenced by feelings of guilt?},
author = {Francesco Mancini and Amelia Gangemi and Claudia Perdighe and Chiara Marini},
editor = {Elsevier ScienceDirect},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2008_Non-just-right-experience_is-it-influenced-by-feelings-of-guilt.pdf},
doi = {10.1016/j.jbtep.2007.02.002},
issn = {0005-7916},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry},
volume = {39},
number = {2},
pages = {162 - 176},
abstract = {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 hypothesized that feelings of guilt may enhance NJRE. In two experiments, we demonstrated that the induction of a guilty emotion resulted in increased NJRE, and this finding was qualified by an interaction with trait guilt. Induced guilt was followed by stronger feelings of things being not just right only in high-trait-guilt participants. In the low-trait-guilt participants NJRE was weaker. Moreover, we found a meaningful relationship between both NJRE and trait guilt and OCD features.},
keywords = {guilt, Not just right experience, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, Obsessive–compulsive features, Trait-guilt},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Gangemi, Amelia; Mancini, Francesco
Guilt and focusing in decision-making Journal Article
In: Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, vol. 20, no 1, pp. 1–20, 2007, ISSN: 1099-0771.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: cognition, Emotion, focusing, guilt, mechanism
@article{BDM:BDM536,
title = {Guilt and focusing in decision-making},
author = {Amelia Gangemi and Francesco Mancini },
editor = { John Wiley & Sons, Inc},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/guilt-and-decision-making.pdf},
doi = {10.1002/bdm.536},
issn = {1099-0771},
year = {2007},
date = {2007-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Behavioral Decision Making},
volume = {20},
number = {1},
pages = {1--20},
publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.},
abstract = {In this paper we examined the impact of a specific emotion, guilt, on focusing in decision-making. Through the focusing mechanism, when making decisions, individuals tend to restrict their thoughts to what is explicitly represented in the decisional task, disregarding alternatives. In this paper, three experiments are performed to investigate whether an emotional state of guilt can critically guide individuals' focusing, and even prevailing over the focusing mechanism. Guilty emotional state was induced by asking participants to write about a guilty related life event. The emotional state was thus neither generated by nor related to the tasks used in the experiments. Results of the first two studies show that guilt affects focusing in decision-making in the case of only one explicitly specified option (a positive or a negative one). Guilty participants, when presented with a stated option that has predominantly positive characteristics, prefer other, unspecified options over the positive one. Guilty participants faced with a stated option that has predominantly negative features tend to prefer it to other, unspecified, options, instead. Finally, experiment 3 shows that guilty participants presented with two different options (a negative vs. a positive one) having different degrees of explicitness (i.e. they are not equally represented in the decision frame), focus on the negative option, even though the latter was not explicitly represented but only hinted at the end of the text. Overall, these results suggest that guilt emotion state can play a crucial role in either strengthening or reducing the focusing mechanism. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.},
keywords = {cognition, Emotion, focusing, guilt, mechanism},
pubstate = {published},
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}
Gangemi, Amelia; Mancini, Francesco; van den Hout, Marcel
Feeling guilty as a source of information about threat and performance Journal Article
In: Behaviour Research and Therapy, vol. 45, no 10, pp. 2387 - 2396, 2007, ISSN: 0005-7967.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Affect-as-information, Emotional reasoning, Evaluative judgements, guilt, obsessive-compulsive disorder
@article{Gangemi20072387,
title = {Feeling guilty as a source of information about threat and performance},
author = {Amelia Gangemi and Francesco Mancini and Marcel van den Hout},
editor = { Elsevier ScienceDirect},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/feeling%20guilty%20as%20a%20source%20of%20information%20about%20threat%20and%20performance.pdf},
doi = {10.1016/j.brat.2007.03.011},
issn = {0005-7967},
year = {2007},
date = {2007-01-01},
journal = {Behaviour Research and Therapy},
volume = {45},
number = {10},
pages = {2387 - 2396},
abstract = {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. Participants high and low in trait guilt were included. Three types of affect were experimentally induced: guilt, anxiety and a neutral affect. Then, participants estimated the likelihood and severity of a negative outcome, and the dissatisfaction with preventive performances in two OCD relevant scenarios. Relative to low-trait guilt participants, people high in trait guilt had higher ratings of risk after induction of state guilt. With regards to dissatisfaction with preventive performance, there was only a trend for high-trait guilt participants to respond stronger to state guilt. The results suggest that people with a general inclination to feel guilty use temporary feelings of guilt as information about the threat content of a situation and do so even if the source of state guilt is unrelated to the situation. Implications for the understanding of OCD are discussed.},
keywords = {Affect-as-information, Emotional reasoning, Evaluative judgements, guilt, obsessive-compulsive disorder},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Mancini, Francesco; Gangemi, Amelia
Fear of guilt from behaving irresponsibly in obsessive–compulsive disorder Journal Article
In: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, vol. 35, no 2, pp. 109 - 120, 2004, ISSN: 0005-7916, (Experimental approaches to understanding OCD).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: beliefs, guilt, OCD, Responsibility
@article{Mancini2004109,
title = {Fear of guilt from behaving irresponsibly in obsessive–compulsive disorder},
author = {Francesco Mancini and Amelia Gangemi},
editor = {Elsevier ScienceDirect},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Fear-of-guilt-from-behaving-irresponsibly-in-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-Mancini_Gangemi.pdf},
doi = {10.1016/j.jbtep.2004.04.003},
issn = {0005-7916},
year = {2004},
date = {2004-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry},
volume = {35},
number = {2},
pages = {109 - 120},
abstract = {Previous cognitive models of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) propose that inflated responsibility plays a key role in the maintenance of symptoms (Behav.Res.Ther. 28 (1985) 571). In this manuscript, we propose that this thesis may be improved by emphasizing that instead, OCD may be characterized by a fear of guilt that would result from behaving irresponsibly and/or from not behaving responsibly. We believe that this concept provides a better explanation for the anxious and fearful nature of OCD than do more traditional conceptualizations of inflated responsibility. We support this idea with empirical evidence and propose that OCD symptoms are consistent with patients acting in a prudential mode because of their fears of guilt.},
note = {Experimental approaches to understanding OCD},
keywords = {beliefs, guilt, OCD, Responsibility},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Mancini, Francesco; Gangemi, Amelia
Aversion to risk and guilt Journal Article
In: Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, vol. 11, no 3, pp. 199–206, 2004, ISSN: 1099-0879.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: aversion to risk, guilt
@article{CPP:CPP418,
title = {Aversion to risk and guilt},
author = {Francesco Mancini and Amelia Gangemi},
editor = {John Wiley & Sons},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2004_aversion%20to%20risk%20and%20guilt.pdf},
doi = {10.1002/cpp.418},
issn = {1099-0879},
year = {2004},
date = {2004-01-01},
journal = {Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy},
volume = {11},
number = {3},
pages = {199--206},
publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.},
abstract = {Much research has shown that cognitive processes are largely guided by individuals' states of mind (Mancini & Gangemi, 2002a, in press; Smeets, de Jong, & Mayer, 2000). In this paper, we specifically consider a state of mind characterized by guilt for having acted irresponsibly. This state is currently considered the breeding ground for the obsessive–compulsive disorder (Rachman, 2002; Salkovskis & Forrester, 2002). Our aim is to examine the impact of this state of mind on decision under risk. We hypothesize that individuals' choices (risk seeking/risk aversion) depend on how they evaluate themselves, as guilty or as victims of a wrong, and thus on moral values. People who evaluate them-selves as guilty are expected to show a risk-averse preference. People who evaluate themselves as victims are expected to show a risk-seeking preference. In two different experiments, we demonstrated that non-clinical participants' aversion to risky choices and preference for risky choices vary as a function of their moral role (guilty/victim). As predicted, in both the experiments, participants experienced intolerance for risk, making more riskless choices, in the context of guilt. Thus, aversion to risk-taking is actually affected by a mental state of guilt. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.},
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}