Background The inference-based approach (IBA) postulates that individuals with obsessive-
compulsive disorder (OCD) confuse a possibility with reality (inferential confusion) according …

Abstract The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5th ed. defines obsessions in obsessive–
compulsive disorder (OCD) as frequent, persistent, intrusive, unwanted thoughts that …

Obsessions–particularly those directly relating to causing harm–often contain or imply
evaluative dimensions about the self, reflecting a fear as to who the person might be–or …

This study utilizes an innovative experimental paradigm to investigate the effects of virtual
reality (VR) on dissociative experience and the sense of presence. A nonclinical sample of …

Increasingly, cognitive‐behavioural models have been considering the role of beliefs about
the self in the development and maintenance of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) …

Cognitive‐behavioural models have linked unacceptable or repugnant thoughts in
obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) with vulnerable self‐themes and fear‐of‐self …

In recent years, cognitive‐behavioural models of OCD have increasingly recognized the
potential role of feared possible selves in the development and maintenance of OCD, while …

Objective The potential causal and maintaining role of vulnerable self‐themes and beliefs
about the self in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) have received increasing attention …

Attentional research in OCD has focused solely on threat stimuli, assumed to provoke
related obsessions and ensuing compulsions. OCD-related stimuli depicting the completion …

Pervasive doubts are a central feature of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). We have
theorized that obsessive doubts can arise in relation to any internal state and lead to …